Oil & Federation · event 3 of 7

1968

Britain announces withdrawal. The decision to leave east of Suez by 1971 gives the Trucial rulers three years to decide what to do.

The Oil & Federation era

  1. 1966
  2. 1969
  3. 1968
  4. 2 December 1971
  5. 1979
  6. 1985
  7. 1990

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