Events from the year 1986 in Kuwait.
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Incumbents
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edit- June - Saboteurs bomb three oil pipelines and the head of a high-pressure oil well, almost causing a shutdown of Kuwait's oil industry.[3][4][5][AI-retrieved source]
- 2 July - An assassination attempt is made against Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.[6]
- 3 July - The Emir dissolves the National Assembly and suspended several articles of the constitution to rule by decree, citing a foreign conspiracy.[1][7][8]
- 11 July - The 12th government of Kuwait resigned.[9]
- 12 July - The Emir issues a decree for the formation of a 13th government.[10][2]
- 27 November - Kuwait Stock Exchange inaugurated the main trading hall.[11][12][13]
Sports
edit- Kazma SC win the Kuwait Premier League.[14]
Births
edit- 8 October - Hamad Al-Enezi.[15]
- 11 December - Ali Maqseed.
References
edit- 1 2 "Kuwait dissolves its parliament". The New York Times. 8 July 1986 [4 July 1986]. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- 1 2 "Timeline: Kuwait forms 40th cabinet under 60 years of governance". Times Kuwait. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
On 12 July 1986, the thirteenth cabinet was formed under the leadership of Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, and 21 ministers.
- ↑ Zahlan, Rosemarie Said (1989). Making of the Modern Persian Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. London: Unwin Hyman. p. 44. ISBN 0044452934.
- ↑ Terrill, W. Andrew (September 2007). Kuwaiti national security and the U.S.-Kuwaiti strategic relationship after Saddam (PDF). Strategic Studies Institute. p. 61. ISBN 1-58487-305-1.
- ↑ "Kuwaiti oil field fires extinguished". United Press International. 19 June 1986. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- ↑ Nosova, Anastasia (September 2016). The merchant elite and parliamentary politics in Kuwait: The dynamics of business political participation in a rentier state (PDF) (PhD thesis). London School of Economics. p. 165. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- ↑ Arundel, John (4 June 1991). "Kuwaitis protest government". United Press International. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- ↑ Alabdali, Omar; Allarkia, Luai (27 June 2024). "Speculation Is Rife About the Future of Kuwait's Parliament". New Lines Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
Before the assembly could act, Emir Jaber al-Ahmad unconstitutionally dissolved it on July 3, 1986.
- ↑ "Kuwait witnesses 36 governments in 57 years". Arab Times. 18 December 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
...forced parliament's dissolution in 1986, triggering the government's resignation on July 11...
- ↑ "Today in Kuwait's history". Kuwait Times. 12 July 2025. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- ↑ "Today in Kuwait's history". Kuwait Times. 27 September 2025. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- ↑ "FAIPS-DPS students visit Boursa Kuwait for hands-on learning". Times Kuwait. 25 September 2024. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
Officially inaugurated in September 1984, Boursa Kuwait began its stock exchange operations in 1986
- ↑ "Today in Kuwait's History". Kuwait News Agency. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- ↑ Schöggl, Hans; Stokkermans, Karel (13 Dec 2018). "Kuwait 1985/86". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- ↑ "Hamad Al Enezi Biography". ESPN. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
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