| May 14, 1983 | | The Council of Ministers approved unanimously the draft agreement with Israel which only needed to be signed.
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| May 17, 1983 | | The Lebanese-Israeli agreement was signed during two solemn ceremonies taking place simultaneously in Kyriat Shmona and in Khaldeh. The agreement sponsored by the United States was supposed to put an end to the state of war.
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| May 22, 1983 | | 23 hostages were executed in the Chouf. Efforts intensified to avoid escalation.
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| June 3, 1983 | | An earthquake of 5.3 magnitude on the Richter scale provoked panic but caused no victims.
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| June 14, 1983 | | While the bombardments took a dangerous turn in the mountain as they reached residential areas, the Chamber of Deputies approved the ratification of the Mai 17 agreement with 62 votes against 2 and 4 abstentions.
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| June 16, 1983 | | Disguised armed elements fired on the crowd in Tripoli, killing 15 persons. The tensioned lasted several days in the capital of the North.
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| June 20, 1983 | | Lebanon lost one of its major poets. Nadia Tueni left behind her pages of pure beauty, eternal words, an immortal poetry, a Lebanon on fire, a tearful family, and inconsolable friends.
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| June 27, 1983 | | Violent combats were raging in the region of Mansouriet-Bhamdoun between the Lebanese Forces and the PSP militia. The bombs reached the Northern Metn.
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| June 29, 1983 | | Philip Habib undertook a new tour in the region. The Lebanese officials informed him in Beirut of their opposition to any partial Israeli withdrawal from the mountain.
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| July 5, 1983 | | The American Secretary of State arrived in Beirut as part of a new tour. 'Complete withdrawals should be executed according to a defined timetable', declared the US diplomat.
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| July 7, 1983 | | Prime Minister Chaffic Wazzan escaped from a killing attempt. A car bomb exploded on his way to his office in Sanayeh.
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| July 19, 1983 | | President Gemayel, accompanied by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, began an eight-day official visit to the United States where he met with President Reagan. The meetings were centered on the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon.
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| July 21, 1983 | | The President of the A.U.B, David Dodge who was kidnapped on the 19th of July 1982, was released. The White House expressed its gratitude to Syria.
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| July 23, 1983 | | The National Salvation Front was born. It was run by Sleiman Frangieh, Rachid Karameh and Walid Joumblatt and was requesting the abrogation of the Mai 17 Israeli-Lebanese agreement.
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| August 5, 1983 | | While the new American envoy Robert McFarlane began a trip to the different capitals of the region, terrorism hit innocent civilians again. A car parked at the entrance of a mosque in Tripoli exploded killing 19 and injuring 70.
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| August 7, 1983 | | Blind terrorism continued to strike. A car bomb exploded in Baalbeck, killing 33 persons and injuring 133 others.
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| August 10, 1983 | | The political cleavage between the Lebanese authorities and the opposition was accentuated. Three ministers, Adel Hamiye, Adnan Mroueh and Pierre El Khoury were intercepted by militiamen, while on mission in the Chouf. They were released the next day.
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| August 21, 1983 | | The first signs of an imminent Israeli redeployment in the south of the Awali river multiplied. Lebanon urged the United States to intervene in order to delay this initiative.
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| August 28, 1983 | | Beirut witnessed four days of madness and bombardments during which the Army lost control of the situation in a matter of one day, in favor of the militiamen.
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| September 1, 1983 | | During the month of September, atrocious massacres were perpetrated against Christian and Druze civilians in the Chouf.
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| September 4, 1983 | | Taking the Lebanese authorities by surprise, the Israeli Army began its withdrawal from the Chouf and Aley leaving face to face the militia of the PSP and the LF in a merciless battle. The combats raged mainly around Bhamdoun, Souk El Gharb and Kabr Chmoun. A dramatic situation unfolded in the mountain where thousands of people were forced out of their homes. 30 000 people found temporary shelter in Deir El Kamar. The rehousing of the displaced persons caused a complicated problem for the officials.
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| September 18, 1983 | | Emir Magid Arslane died at the age of 79. Hero of the independence, deputy since 1931, and several times minister, Emir Magid became very early a true national leader, a perfect incarnation of the generation of men who have shaped the coexistence aspect of Lebanon.
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| September 19, 1983 | | The American warships pounded the anti-governmental forces in the mountain confirming the American support to the legal authority.
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| September 22, 1983 | | It was the turn of the French to react. The super-standards bombarded the artillery positions in Dhour Choueir while a bomb shower fell on Greater Beirut.
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| September 26, 1983 | | Prime Minister Chafic Wazzan presented the resignation of his government to the chief of State, who refused it.
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| October 7, 1983 | | A first exchange of hostages between the LF and the P.S.P was possible under the aegis of the four-party military commission. Furthermore, the commission succeeded in assuring the entry of a Red Cross convoy in Deir El Kamar where 25,000 refugees had found shelter.
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| October 12, 1983 | | Political confusion, frequent violations of the cease-fire, alarming threats were as many elements that favored monetary speculation in Beirut. The dollar registered a spectacular increase against the Lebanese pound reaching 515 L.P.
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| October 18, 1983 | | Violent artillery duels were taking place on the axis Aley-Souk El Gharb-Dahr El Wahch and in the Iqlim. The situation became uncontrollable.
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| October 23, 1983 | | Two attacks were perpetrated against the general headquarters of the American contingent next to the Beirut International Airport and against a position of the French contingent in Jnah. The double attack made 241 deaths and 60 injured among the Americans, and 58 deaths and 15 injured among the French. It was a true declaration of war to the political military and even physical presence of the West in Lebanon.
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| October 24, 1983 | | The French President Mitterand made a quick visit to Beirut and declared: ' We will stay'.
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| October 31, 1983 | | The dialog conference opened in Geneva. This national reconciliation conference represented the only hope for the Lebanese.
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| November 2, 1983 | | At the Geneva conference, the Mai 17 agreement was the main subject of debates. A Gemayel-Frangieh reconciliation took place.
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| November 4, 1983 | | Participants in the Geneva conference asked President Gemayel to undertake an Arab and occidental tour in order to attempt solving the problem of the May 17 agreement.
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| November 4, 1983 | | A car bomb exploded next to the Israeli headquarters in Tyr causing 29 deaths and 29 injured. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for this killing attempt.
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| November 6, 1983 | | The situation was dramatic in Tripoli. Inter-Palestinian fights claimed 500 deaths and 875 injured.
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| November 17, 1983 | | The French aviation hit pro-Iranian bases in Baalbeck.
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| November 20, 1983 | | An Israeli airplane was shut down by the D.C.A. in the Lebanese sky.
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| November 24, 1983 | | Six Israeli prisoners were exchanged against 4600 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners.
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| November 25, 1983 | | A Syrian-Saudi agreement was reached in Damascus for the evacuation of Palestinians from Tripoli.
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| November 30, 1983 | | President Gemayel met with the American President at the White House.
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