King Salman bin Abdulaziz Latest Fast Facts
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King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research
Updated 1717 December 15, 2021
King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on December 8, 2016.
King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on December 8, 2016.
(CNN)Here is a attending at the activity of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, who succeeded his bisected brother King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on January 22, 2015.
Personal
Birth date: December 31, 1935
Birth place: Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Father: King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman al Saud
Mother: Hassa bint Ahmed al-Sudairi
Marriages: Wives’ names not accessible publicly, but according to Islamic tradition, he is accustomed no added than four at a time.
Children: Exact cardinal is not accessible publicly. Sons include: Sultan, Mohammed, Abdulaziz, Faisal, Khaled, Turki
Education: Attended the Princes’ School
Religion: Wahhabism (a bourgeois Islamic sect)
Other Facts
He is one of the “Sudairi Seven,” sons of King Abdulaziz who all allotment the aforementioned mother and who accept been the best able aural the House of Saud.
He was the third prince to be called the beneficiary by King Abdullah, who ascended the head in 2005.
He memorized the Quran by the time he was 10 years old.
Was accepted as the ancestors authoritarian and purportedly maintained a aristocratic ancestors “jail” area assertive or aberrant aristocratic ancestors associates were kept.
His son Prince Sultan was a burden specialist on a 1985 Space Shuttle Discovery mission.
Timeline
1955-1960 and 1963-2011 – Governor of Riyadh.
November 2011 – Becomes the abbot of aegis afterwards the afterlife of his brother Crown Prince Sultan.
April 11, 2012 – During an official appointment to the United States, Prince Salman meets with US President Barack Obama.
June 18, 2012 – King Abdullah names him the acme prince and beneficiary to the throne.
August 28, 2012 – Crown Prince Salman is larboard in allegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the aboriginal time while the King is on “special leave.”
January 22, 2015 – Officially becomes the new baron of Saudi Arabia afterwards the afterlife of King Abdullah.
January 23, 2015 – King Salman affirms by aristocratic decree Crown Prince Muqrin to accomplish him as baron and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef as additional in band to the throne.
January 27, 2015 – Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama appointment King Salman in Saudi Arabia.
February 10, 2015 – Prince Charles visits King Salman while on a six-day bout of the Middle East.
April 29, 2015 – King Salman relieves Crown Prince Muqrin of his position and appoints Mohammed bin Nayef as the new acme prince, abutting in band for the throne.
April 20, 2016 – Meets with Obama in Riyadh amidst tensions amid the US and Saudi Arabia over bounded upheaval, falling oil prices and added credibility of contention.
May 20-22, 2017 – US President Donald Trump visits the baron in Riyadh during his aboriginal across trip.
June 21, 2017 – Removes bin Nayef as acme prince and appoints his son, Mohammed bin Salman.
November 2017 – Orders an aberrant abolition of princes and government officials, alleging corruption. Hundreds of arrestees are bedfast at the Ritz Carlton auberge in Riyadh, which charcoal bankrupt for added than two months.
October 2, 2018 – Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi agitator and columnist for the Washington Post who lived in Virginia, vanishes afterwards activity central the Saudi admiral in Istanbul.
Turkish authorities after say that Khashoggi was dead and burst in the architecture by a 15-member team. Saudi admiral say that Khashoggi was dead during a adulterated attack to abduct him.
October 14, 2018 – Calls Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to altercate convening a alive accumulation to investigate Khashoggi’s killing, according to Saudi and Turkish media.
October 16, 2018 – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits King Salman and Prince bin Salman in Riyadh to allocution about Khashoggi’s death. Both men abjure accepting any ability of the abandon at the consulate.
October 31, 2018 – Saudi Arabia’s arch prosecutor says affirmation indicates Khashoggi was dead in an act of advised murder. Saudi admiral advance that King Salman and Prince bin Salman had no involvement.