CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
COMOROS
CHAD
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
CAPE VERDE
CAMEROON
BURUNDI
BURKINA FASO
BOTSWANA
BENIN
ANGOLA
ALGERIA
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CONGO REPUBLIC OF THE
CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
COMOROS
CHAD
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
CAPE VERDE
CAMEROON
BURUNDI
BURKINA FASO
BOTSWANA
BENIN
ANGOLA
ALGERIA
CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
COMOROS
CHAD
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
CAPE VERDE
CAMEROON
BURUNDI
BURKINA FASO
BOTSWANA
BENIN
ANGOLA
ALGERIA
China 1949 to 2008
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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.
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
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