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1760
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1.9.1760
Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
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1761
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1.14.1761
The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas. The Afghan victory changes the course of Indian History. |
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1919
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8.19.1919
Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom. |
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1946
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1973
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7.17.1973
King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery. |
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1979
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2.14.1979
In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. |
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8.5.1979
In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
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1982
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11.3.1982
The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
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1983
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1988
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1989
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1.30.1989
The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. |
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2.15.1989
Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan. |
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1990
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7.13.1990
An earthquake with its epicentre in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina (Lenin Peak).
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1996
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9.27.1996
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah. |
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1998
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1.14.1998
An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people. |
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2.4.1998
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000. |
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5.30.1998
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000. |
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7.20.1998
Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban.
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8.20.1998
U.S. embassy bombings: the United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. |
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11.20.1998
A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. |
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2001
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2.26.2001
The Taliban destroys two giant statues of Buddha in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
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9.9.2001
Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
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11.11.2001
Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
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12.22.2001
Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
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2002
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2003
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8.11.2003
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
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2004
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1.26.2004
President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
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2005
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6.28.2005
War in Afghanistan: Three U.S. Navy SEALs and 16 American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed during Operation Red Wing, a failed counter-insurgent mission in Kunar province, Afghanistan.
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10.8.2005
2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
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