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This is a timeline of Pakistani history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Pakistan and its predecessor states.
Although the modern day Pakistan, the land of Indus, emerged on the world map as a new nation-state in 1947 this area has a very long history that goes back over thousands of years and it is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited regions. The Indus Valley was known as Meluhha in Mesopotamia when the Harappan civilization was thriving here. When the Aryan tribes came and settled down in the upper Indus valley in the middle of the second millennium BC they called it Sapta-Sindhu (the land of seven rivers). Now this Indus land is called Pakistan which is an acronym composed from the initial letters of the name of its provinces namely, Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Indus, Sindh and the last three letters of Balochistan.
BC
AD
Post-creation Era of the 20th Century
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This is a timeline of Pakistani history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Pakistan and its predecessor states.
Although the modern day Pakistan, the land of Indus, emerged on the world map as a new nation-state in 1947 this area has a very long history that goes back over thousands of years and it is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited regions. The Indus Valley was known as Meluhha in Mesopotamia when the Harappan civilization was thriving here. When the Aryan tribes came and settled down in the upper Indus valley in the middle of the second millennium BC they called it Sapta-Sindhu (the land of seven rivers). Now this Indus land is called Pakistan which is an acronym composed from the initial letters of the name of its provinces namely, Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Indus, Sindh and the last three letters of Balochistan.
BC
- 2,000,000 BC: In Riwat, dating at this period, stones implementations (tools) have been found at the site, proposing a possibility of earlier homo erectus existence
- 1,600,000 BC: A stone artifact is discovered in Riwat, dated to this period
- 500,000 BC: Some of the earliest relics of Stone Age man have been found in the Soan Valley of the Potohar region near Rawalpindi, dating back to 500,000 BCE
- 9000 BC - 5500 BC: Mehrgarh Period I
- 5500 BC - 4800 BC: Mehrgarh Period II
- 4800 BC - 3500 BC: Mehrgarh Period III
- 3500 BC - 2800 BC: Mehrgarh Periods IV to VI
- 2800 BC - 2000 BC: Mehrgarh Period VII
- 2800 BC - 2500 BC: Early Harappan / Kot Diji Phase
- 2500 BC - 1900 BC: Harappan Phase; Flourishment of Indus Valley Civilization at urban centres, Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa
- 1900 BC - 1300 BC: Late Harappan Phase (Cemetery H Culture)
- 1750–500 BC: Vedic period(Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, were composed)
- 1700 BC - 0600 BC: Start of the Aryan civilization in Sapta Sindhu, Punjab and of Indus culture, Rigvedic civilization
- 1500 BC: Earliest verses of Rig-Veda were written in the Indus Valley (Pakistan)
- 516 BC: Pakistan becomes easternmost part of Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Gandharais semi-independent kingdom
- 500 BC: Gandhara civilization (500 BC to 500 AD)
- 327 BC - 325 BC: Alexander of Macedonia invades Pakistan and captures Taxila
- 326 BC: Porus, the king of Punjab, fought the battle of the Hydaspes River against the Macedonian king Alexander.
- 325 BC: During the siege of the capital of the Mallians (modern Multan), Alexander was seriously wounded by an arrow in the chest.
- 300 BC: Mauryan empire, Ashoka promotes Buddhism
- 275 BC: Vishnugupta a.k.a Kautilya Chankya born in Taxila
- 350 BC:Arthashastra is composed
- 185 BC: Bactrian Greeks conquer North-West Pakistan
- 75 BC: Arrival of Scythians (Sakas) from central Asia
AD
- 20: Parthians conquer present Northern Pakistan area
- 60: Kushans from central Asia overthrow Parthians
- 3rd Century: Kushans decline and are dominated by Sassanian empire of Persia
- 4th Century: Kidar (little) Kushans come to power
- 450: White Huns (Hephthalites) attacked Gandhara, sacked its cities and burnt down its many monasteries and centres of learning
- 565: Sassanians and Turks overthrow Huns
- Late 6th –7th Century: Turki Shahi control area West of Indus, including Gandhara
- 711 - 712: Muhammad bin Qasim conquers Sindh and Southern Punjab
- 870 - 1026: Hindu Shahi ruled from Multan to Kabul
- 1001: Mahmud Ghazni defeats the Hindu Shahi king Jayapala (A Janjua Rajput) near Peshawar
- 1021: Mahmud Ghazni defeats Tarnochalpal and annexes Punjab
- 1058: Soomra Dynasty, Soomro period from 1058 to 1351 ends the Arab domination and establishes its own rule over Sindh.
- 1148 - 1206: Ghaurids Period
- 1206: A body of Khokhars assassinated Muhammad Ghori during a raid on his camp on the Jhelum River
- 1221: Mongol Genghis Khan invades Punjab
- 1246-7, Balban mounted an expedition as far as the Salt Range to chastise the Khokhars.
- 1351: Samma Dynasty assumed rule over Sindh
- 1398: Tamerlane plunders Lahore
- 1526 - 1857: Mughal ascendancy (1526–1707), nominal rule by Mughals (1707–1857)
- 1541 - 1545: Sher Shah Suri built the Rohtas Fort
- 1556–1605: Akbar builds Lahore Fort
- 1586: Yusufzais defeat Akbar in the Karakar pass
- 1608: Rawal Bhim Singh builts Derawar Fort in Bahawalpur
- 1701: Kalhoro Dynasty establishes its rule over Sindh
- 1722:Ahmad Shah Durrani Born in Multan
- 1739: Nadir Shah of Persia invades Mughal Empire
- 1751-52: Ahmed Shah Abdali annexes Punjab to his kingdom
- 1782: The Baloch tribe of Talpur defeats the last Kalhora ruler Mian Abdul Nabi in the battle of Halani
- 1801 - 1849: Sikhs become dominant force in Punjab, Ranjit Singh rules (1799–1839),
- 1843: British defeat Talpurs in the battle of Miani and annex Sindh
- 1849: British defeat Sikhs and annex Punjab
- November 1, 1857 The British control most present-day Pakistan region and incorporate it as part of the British Indian Empire.
- 1876 Muhammad Ali Jinnah is born in Karachi founder of Pakistan.
- 1877 Allama Iqbal is born in sialkot
- 1906: A new political party All-India Muslim League formed to protect rights of Muslims in British Indian Empire.
- 1913: Prominent Muslim leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah left Indian National Congress aknowlleging that Hindu dominant Indian Congress failing to protect Indian Muslim rights, later became leader of the All-India Muslim League and instrumental in the creation of Pakistan.
- 1930: Dr. Muhammad Allama Iqbal, a great Muslim philosopher and poet suggested creation of separate Muslim state in Indian sub-continent to protect Muslim population dominated by Hindu majority.
- 1935: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 jolted Quetta killing over 50,000 people
- 1947: Pakistan is created.
Post-creation Era of the 20th Century
- 1948: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the first governor general of Pakistan, passes away
- 1951: Prime minister Liaqat Ali Khan assassinated
- 1954: Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Abul Asar Hafeez Jullundhri and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.
- 1954: Constituent Assembly unanimously passes the resolution in favour of Urdu and Bengali as national languages.
- 1956: The Constituent Assembly promulgates first indigenous constitution
- 1956: Constituent Assembly decides the country shall be a Federal Republic known as Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
- 1958: After a military coup dictorial Ayub Khan takes over
- 1960: Ayub Khan becomes first elected president
- August 1, 1960: Islamabad is declared as the principal seat of the Government of Pakistan.
- January 2, 1964: Fatima Jinnah lost the presidential elections, Ayub completes the second term
- 1965: Second war between Pakistan and India over Kashmir
- 1969: Ayub Khan resigns; Yahya Khan declares martial law and assumes presidency
- 1970: Pakistani general election, 1970 were held on 7 December 1970, although the polls in East Pakistan, originally scheduled for October, were delayed by disastrous floods and rescheduled for later in December and January 1971.
- 1971: East Pakistan attempts to secede, leading to civil war; India intervenes in support of East Pakistanis; Pakistan fights another war with India; East Pakistan breaks away to become Bangladesh; Yahya Khan resigns.
- 1972: Karachi labour unrest of 1972 and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes president
- 1973: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes prime minister
- 1977: General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq overthrows prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and declares martial law
- 1978: General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq becomes Pakistan's sixth president
- 1979: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto hanged
- 1979: The military ruler Zia Ul-Haq enacts the controversial Hudood Ordinances
- 1985: General elections held; Muhammad Khan Junejo becomes prime minister
- 1988: Army ammunition blown up in Ojheri camp, Rawalpindi; more than 100 people die.
- 1988: Zia dismisses Junejo's government; Zia dies in a plane crash; New elections held; Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister
- 1988: Prominent Pashtun leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan dies in Peshawar
- 1990: President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismisses Benazir Bhutto government; Mian Nawaz Sharif becomes the next prime minister
- 1991: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif begins economic liberalisation programme. Islamic Shariah law formally incorporated into legal code.
- 1993: President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif both resign under pressure from military. Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister for the second time
- 1996: President Farooq Leghari dismisses Bhutto government
- 1997: General elections held; Nawaz Sharif becomes prime minister for the second time
- May 28, 1998: Pakistan conducts nuclear tests
- 1999: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif overthrown in military coup led by General Pervez Musharraf
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