1868 CE - 1926 CE: Life of explorer, archaeologist, writer, and political influencer Gertrude Lowthian Bell.

1888 CE: Gertrude Bell is the first woman to graduate Oxford history program.

1892 CE: Gertrude Bell lives with her uncle in Persia.

1897 CE: Gertrude Bell and her brother Maurice embark on a tour of the world.

1904 CE: Gertrude Bell explores the Near East alone.

1909 CE: Gertrude Bell maps and photographs the Fortress of Ukhaidir.

1914 CE: Gertrude Bell volunteers for the Red Cross after World War I breaks out.

1915 CE: Gertrude Bell's true love killed in action at Gallipoli.

1916 CE - 1925 CE: Gertrude Bell works as Intelligence Officer and Oriental Secretary for the British Government; is instrumental in establishing Iraq, tutoring its first king, and contributing to the partition of the Near East after World War I.

1926 CE: Gertrude Bell dies at Baghdad from an overdose of sleeping pills.