1915 Artist Seddeq Ahmed was born in Nineveh, Iraq.
1932 He studied art at the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts. However, he was forced to drop his studies because of his illness.
1934 He graduated from the primary teachers' house and was then appointed as a teacher in a school in Kirkuk.
1938 He joined the Military College in Baghdad.
1939 He graduated from the Military College with the rank of Lieutenant.
1953 He participated in the first exhibition of the Kirkuk Artists Group at the Ghazi School Hall in Kirkuk.
1954 He participated in the third exhibition of the Kirkuk Artists Group, entitled “His Brush” in the Hall of the Public Library in Kirkuk, and the fourth exhibition of the Kirkuk Artists Group.
1955 He joined the Iraqi Visual Artists Association in Baghdad and participated in the fifth exhibition of the Kirkuk Artists Group at the Old Public Library Hall.
Seddeq Ahmed, along with Mahmoud Al-Obaidi (from the same generation) and Sinan Saeed are the founders of the Kirkuk Artists Group, which was founded in 1953 and which had an important role in spreading culture and artistic taste in this city. This was at a time when Kirkuk was teeming with cultural, artistic and social life from the fifties to the eighties and this is because of the presence of a large foreign community working in its oil fields.
1956 He participated in the Industrial and Agricultural Animal Exhibition in Kirkuk and the Mansour Club exhibition in Baghdad.
1957 He participated in the eleventh and twelfth exhibition of the Kirkuk Group at the American Cultural Center and the Al-Mansour Club exhibition in Baghdad.
1958 He participated in the Al-Mansour Club exhibition in Baghdad and the special exhibition on the July Revolution in China.
1959 He became a member of the Fine Artists Association and a member of the Artists Syndicate and participated in the Industrial Agricultural Exhibition on July 14 in Kirkuk.
1960 He participated in the fifteenth exhibition of the Kirkuk Artists Group at the Public Library Hall in the new building.
He participated in all exhibitions held by the Iraqi artists from 1956 to 1964.
1963 He was referred to retirement when he was brigadier general.
The first person he was affected by was his Armenian teacher, Sarkis, a professor of painting at An-Najah Primary School, where the artist studied.
Artist Asem Hafudh, whom Seddeq Ahmad studied under for two years in highschool, was one of the first to encourage him.
1965 He participated in the Kirkuk Brigade Exhibition.
1979 He participated in an exhibition of selected works (Pentecostal).
1982 The Iraqi Ministry of Culture held an honorary exhibition for him at the National Museum of Modern Art at the Gulbenkian Hall and participated in the Iraqi Artists Exhibition in Italy and the Pioneer Artists Exhibition in Baghdad.
1983 He participated in the Equestrian Club Exhibition in Baghdad.
1984 He participated in an exhibition of Iraqi art at Al-Orfali Hall in Baghdad, Spring Exhibition at Al-Orfali Hall and Iraqi Art Exhibition for Portraits in Baghdad.
1994 He held an exhibition at Al-Orfali Hall and another exhibition at Ain Gallery in Baghdad and participated in an exhibition marking the four years since the first Gulf War.
1997 He held an exhibition at the Hall of the Fine Arts Department and he passed away in Baghdad at the age of eighty-two.
1998 A memorial exhibition was held on the occasion of the first anniversary of his passing at the Al-Inaa Gallery in Baghdad and an exhibition at Hammurabi Gallery in Amman.
2002 An exhibition for him was held at Al-Droubi Gallery in Baghdad.
2008 An exhibition for him was held at Al-Orfali Gallery in Amman.
July 2010, an exhibition for him was held at the Media Gallery in Erbil.
November 2010, a retrospective exhibition was held at Madarat Gallery in Baghdad.
