1949, Communist leader Mao Zedong proclaims the founding 0f People's Republic of China.
1958: Mao launches Great Leap Forward, a five-year economic plan.
1959: Chinese forces suppress large-scale revolt in Tibet. Dalai Lama escapes to India.
1962: China attacks India.
1966: Cultural Revolution, Mao's 10-year political and ideological campaign,begins.
1971: China replaces Taiwan in UN.
1972: US President Richard Nixon visits China.
1976: Mao dies. Gang of Four, including Mao's widow arrested. 1977: Deng Xiaoping emerges as leader.
1989: Troops open fire on demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square .. 1989: Jiang Zemin becomes Communist Party General Secretary.
1993: Jiang Zemin becomes President.
1997: Deng Xiaoping dies. Hong Kong reverts to China. 1999: Macao reverts to China.
2001: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan - and Uzbekistan launch Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. China joins World Trade Organisation.
2002: Vice-President Hu Jintao becomes Communist Party leader.
2003: Hu Jintao elected President. China and India sign agreement over status of Tibet and Sikkim ..
2006: Tibet railway line, the world's highest train route opened.
2008: Anti-China protests escalate in Tibet. Olympics in Beijing.
Bangladesh 1947 to 2008
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1947: Pakistan is born with two provinces-East Pakistan and West Pakistan.
1970: Pakistan's first general elections. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League, wins majority. West Pakistan's leaders refuse to recognise the results, leading to rioting.
1971: Awami League proclaims independence of East Pakistan (Bangladesh). 1972: Mujib becomes Prime Minister.
1975: Mujib becomes President. He is assassinated ina military coup .. 1977: General Zia Rahman assumes Presidency.
1979: Zia's Bangladesh National Party wins parliamentary elections. 1981: Zia is assassinated during abortive military coup.
1982: Army Chief H. M. Ershad seizes power.
1983: Ershad becomes President
1986: Ershad elected to a five-year term.
1987: State of emergency declared following mass protests. 1990: Ershad resigns.
1991: Begum Khaleda Zia, widow of President Zia Rahman, becomes Prime minister.
1996: Awami League returns to power. Mujib's daughter, Sheikh Hasina Wajed becomes Prime Minister.
2001: Awamy League loses at polls to Khaleda Zia's BNP-Ied coalition.
2002: President Chowdhury resigns after BNP accuses him of bias. lajuddin Ahmed takes over as President
2004: Sheikh Hasina survives bomb attack which kills 22 people.
2006: Prime Minister Khaleda Zia completes her term. President Ahmed assumes caretaker role for period leading to elections. Awami League accuses President Ahmed of bias; announces poll boycott. Bangladesh Grameen Bank founder Muhammed Yunus wins Nobel Peace Prize.
2007: State of emergency declared amid violence in the election run-up. Poll postponed. Fakhruddin Ahmed appointed head of caretaker government.
2007: Sheikh Hasina, Kha/eda Zia and several other politicians arrested in an anticorruption drive.
2008: Bangladesh [arnaat-e-lslarni Chief Motiur Rahman arrested.
1970: Pakistan's first general elections. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League, wins majority. West Pakistan's leaders refuse to recognise the results, leading to rioting.
1971: Awami League proclaims independence of East Pakistan (Bangladesh). 1972: Mujib becomes Prime Minister.
1975: Mujib becomes President. He is assassinated ina military coup .. 1977: General Zia Rahman assumes Presidency.
1979: Zia's Bangladesh National Party wins parliamentary elections. 1981: Zia is assassinated during abortive military coup.
1982: Army Chief H. M. Ershad seizes power.
1983: Ershad becomes President
1986: Ershad elected to a five-year term.
1987: State of emergency declared following mass protests. 1990: Ershad resigns.
1991: Begum Khaleda Zia, widow of President Zia Rahman, becomes Prime minister.
1996: Awami League returns to power. Mujib's daughter, Sheikh Hasina Wajed becomes Prime Minister.
2001: Awamy League loses at polls to Khaleda Zia's BNP-Ied coalition.
2002: President Chowdhury resigns after BNP accuses him of bias. lajuddin Ahmed takes over as President
2004: Sheikh Hasina survives bomb attack which kills 22 people.
2006: Prime Minister Khaleda Zia completes her term. President Ahmed assumes caretaker role for period leading to elections. Awami League accuses President Ahmed of bias; announces poll boycott. Bangladesh Grameen Bank founder Muhammed Yunus wins Nobel Peace Prize.
2007: State of emergency declared amid violence in the election run-up. Poll postponed. Fakhruddin Ahmed appointed head of caretaker government.
2007: Sheikh Hasina, Kha/eda Zia and several other politicians arrested in an anticorruption drive.
2008: Bangladesh [arnaat-e-lslarni Chief Motiur Rahman arrested.
Russia 1917 to 2008
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1917: October Revolution. Bolsheviks take over Moscow.
1922: Russia joins the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
1991: Soviet Union collapses. Russia becomes independent.
1992: Russia takes up seat of Soviet Union in UN.
1996: Boris Yeltsin re-elected for another term.
1998: Yeltsin dismisses Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and appoints first, Sergey Kiriyenko and later, Yevgeniy Primakov. I
1999: Yeltsin sacks Primakov and appoints first, Sergey Stepashin and later, VladiImir Putin. Yeltsin resigns and Putin takes over as acting president.
2000: Putin elected president.
2002: Chechen rebels' seizure of a Moscow theatre results in the death of more than 120 people.
2003: Putin-backed United Russia wins landslide victory in parliament elections. i 2004: President Putin re-elected. More than 330 people killed when siege at school in North Ossetia ends in bloodbath. i
2005: Chechen separatist leader Asian Maskhadov killed in a military operation. Billionnaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky sentenced to nine years in jail for tax evasion and fraud.
2006: Russia's most-wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, is killed in a military operation. Putin critic and former Russian security service officer Aleksandr Litvinenko, dies in London due to radioactive poisoning ..
2007: Former President Yeltsin dies. United Russia party wins a landslide victory in parliamentary elections.
2008: Dmitry Medvedev takes over as President from Putin, who becomes Prime Minister. War erupts between Russia and Georgia
1922: Russia joins the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
1991: Soviet Union collapses. Russia becomes independent.
1992: Russia takes up seat of Soviet Union in UN.
1996: Boris Yeltsin re-elected for another term.
1998: Yeltsin dismisses Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and appoints first, Sergey Kiriyenko and later, Yevgeniy Primakov. I
1999: Yeltsin sacks Primakov and appoints first, Sergey Stepashin and later, VladiImir Putin. Yeltsin resigns and Putin takes over as acting president.
2000: Putin elected president.
2002: Chechen rebels' seizure of a Moscow theatre results in the death of more than 120 people.
2003: Putin-backed United Russia wins landslide victory in parliament elections. i 2004: President Putin re-elected. More than 330 people killed when siege at school in North Ossetia ends in bloodbath. i
2005: Chechen separatist leader Asian Maskhadov killed in a military operation. Billionnaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky sentenced to nine years in jail for tax evasion and fraud.
2006: Russia's most-wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, is killed in a military operation. Putin critic and former Russian security service officer Aleksandr Litvinenko, dies in London due to radioactive poisoning ..
2007: Former President Yeltsin dies. United Russia party wins a landslide victory in parliamentary elections.
2008: Dmitry Medvedev takes over as President from Putin, who becomes Prime Minister. War erupts between Russia and Georgia
Sri Lanka 1948 to 2008
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1948: Sri Lanka (Ceylon) gains independence from Britain.
1956: Solomon Bandaranaike becomes Prime Minister. Sinhala made official language.
1958: Anti-Tamil riots leave 200 people dead.
1959: Bandaranaike assassinated by a Bhuddist monk. His widow, Sirimavo becomes world's first woman Prime Minister.
1965: Opposition United National Party wins elections. 1970: Srimavo Bandaranaike returns to power.
1971: Sinhalese Marxists launch rebellion.
1972: Country's name changed to Sri Lanka.
1975: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) formed.
1977: Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) party wins all seats in Tamil areas. 1983: Civil war begins, sparked by anti-Tamil riots.
1987: India-Sri Lanka agreement signed.
1991: India's former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by L TTE. 1993: LTTE kills President Ranasinghe Premadasa.
1999: L TTE tries to kill President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
2002: Sri Lankan government and L TTE sign cease-fire agreement. 2003: L TTE pulls out of peace talks.
2005: LTTE kills Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar. Mahinda Rajapakse becomes President
2006: Army Chief hurt in LTTE bomb attack.
2007: LTTE fighters attack Anuradhapura air base. L TTE's second-in-command S.P.Thamilselvan is killed in an air raid.
2008.: Government troops attack LTTE's administrative headquarters Killinochi
1956: Solomon Bandaranaike becomes Prime Minister. Sinhala made official language.
1958: Anti-Tamil riots leave 200 people dead.
1959: Bandaranaike assassinated by a Bhuddist monk. His widow, Sirimavo becomes world's first woman Prime Minister.
1965: Opposition United National Party wins elections. 1970: Srimavo Bandaranaike returns to power.
1971: Sinhalese Marxists launch rebellion.
1972: Country's name changed to Sri Lanka.
1975: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) formed.
1977: Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) party wins all seats in Tamil areas. 1983: Civil war begins, sparked by anti-Tamil riots.
1987: India-Sri Lanka agreement signed.
1991: India's former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by L TTE. 1993: LTTE kills President Ranasinghe Premadasa.
1999: L TTE tries to kill President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
2002: Sri Lankan government and L TTE sign cease-fire agreement. 2003: L TTE pulls out of peace talks.
2005: LTTE kills Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar. Mahinda Rajapakse becomes President
2006: Army Chief hurt in LTTE bomb attack.
2007: LTTE fighters attack Anuradhapura air base. L TTE's second-in-command S.P.Thamilselvan is killed in an air raid.
2008.: Government troops attack LTTE's administrative headquarters Killinochi
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