Important Events and Time Period.

B.C.
776
First Olympic Games in Greece

58
Caesar’s invasion of Gaul

55
Roman Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar

4
Birth of Jesus Christ

A.D.
29
Crucifixion of Jesus Christ

43
Roman Conquest of Britain

375
Invasion of Europe by Huns

570
Birth of Prophet Mohammed at Mecca

600
The end of the Roman Empire

622
Beginning of the Hizri Era (Muslim Calendar)

1066
Battle of Hastings; Norman conquest of England

1215
Magna Carta signed (June 15th) by King John II at Runnymede in England

1338
Hundred years War broke out between England and France

1348
Black Death Plague in Europe

1492
Columbus discovered America

1498

Vasco-de-gama, a Portuguese discovered the sea route to India

1588
Defeat of Spanish Armada

1605
Gun powder plot in England for blowing up the English Parliament

1649
King Charles beheaded—beginning of Commonwealth in England

1660
Restoration of British Monarchy

1688
Bloodless or Glorious Revolution in England

1689
Establishment of British Constitutional Monarchy

1776
Declaration of American Independence (July 4)

1789
French Revolution (Aug. 27)

1805
Battle of Trafalgar
 
1815
Battle of Waterloo (June 18th)

1821
Death of Napoleon
 
1854
The Crimean War

1869
Suez Canal opened for traffic

1904
Russian-Japanese War

1909
Discovery of South Pole by Commander Perry

1911
Amundsen reach South Pole

1914
World War I broke out (July 28th)

1917
Russian Revolution (Oct.)

1918
(Nov. 11th) End of World War I

1919
Treaty of Versailles

1933
Hitler-becomes Chancellor of Germany

1939
World War II broke out 1st Sept.; England joins War (Sep. 3rd)

1941
Hitler invades Russia (June 2nd); Japan attacks Pearl Harbour (Dec. 7th), U.S.A. enters World War II

1942
Battle of El Alamein (July)

1945
First Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6th Aug. Second Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki on 9th Aug; End of World War II

1948
Burma achieves independence (Jan. 14th); Ceylon achieves independence (Feb. 6th); Jewish State of Israel formed in Palestine (May 14th); Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly on 10th Dec.

1955
Bandung Conference

1956
(July 20) Suez Canal nationalized by President Nasser of Egypt

1957
Russia launches the first artificial satellite (Oct. 4th) 1962 (April 12) Man’s first entry into space. Russia successfully launches her space vhicle VOSTOK-1 with a human being aboard, Major Yuri Gagarin.

1963
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (Aug. 5)

1966
Luna-9 a Russian spacecraft softlands on the Moon

1967
Arab Israel War (June 5th)

1968
Five Warsaw Pact Powers (East Germany, Poland, U.S.S.R., Bulgaria and Hungry) invade Czechoslovakia (Aug. 21)

1969
Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon on 21st July;

Conrad and Bean land on the moon on 19th Nov.

1970
Russo-German Non-aggression Treaty (Aug. 8);

Third Nonaligned Summit Conference at Lusaka (Sept. 8);

Luna-17 softlands on the moon’s surface with Lunakhod-1 (Nov. 17)

First General Elections in Pakistan (Dec. 7);

Sixth Asian Games at Bangkok (Dec. 9).

1971
Genocide in Bangladesh by Pakistan;

Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Co-operation (Aug. 9).

China’s admission to U.N.O. and expulsion of Taiwan from its membership;

Indo-Pak War (Dec. 3-17);

Liberation of Bangladesh.

1972
Indo Bangladesh Treaty of friendship, peace and cooperation;

Pioneer-10 launched towards Jupiter (March 3);

 Bangladesh admitted to Commonwealth (April 18);

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty-I signed between Russia and U.S.A. (May 27);

Indo-Pak Simla Agreement (July 3);

Munich Olympic Games (Aug. 26 to 11 Sept.);

Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka (May 22);

1973
Vietnam Peace Settlement; End of War in Laos, 4th Arab Israel War (Oct.)

1974
Indo-Pak-Bangladesh Tripartite Agreement;

War in Cyprus;

Asian Games in Tehran (Iran);

Bangladesh admitted to the U.N.
 
1975
The year 1975 was observed as International Women’s year (Jan. 1) death of Chiang-Kai-Shek (April 5);

Suez Canal reopened (June 5);

Mozambique achieves independence (June 25);

Apollo-Soyuz joint test flight (July 17);

Helsinki Declaration signed by 35 nations (33 European and U.S.A. and Canada) (Aug. 1);

Angola becomes free (Nov. 10);

Surinam achieves independence (Nov. 25).

1976
Death of Chou-En-lai (Jan. 8);

UNCTAD-IV opened in Nairobi (May 5);

Fifth Non-Aligned Summit in Colombo opened (July 17);

Olympic Games at Montreal (Canada) from July 17 to Aug. 1;

2nd World Hindi Convention at Port Louis (Aug. 28);

Death of Mao Tse Tung (Sept. 9);

Angola becomes member of the U.N.O. (Dec. 1).

1977

General Elections in Pakistan (March 7);

The conference in New Delhi of the Foreign Ministers of the Co-ordinating Bureau of the non-aligned countries;

Assumption of office by Jimmy Carter as the 39th President of the U.S.A.;

SEATO wounded up (June 30);

Deposition of Z. A. Bhutto from Prime Ministership of Pakistan and military rule in Pakistan begins (July 5th);

2nd Five Nation ASEAN summit conference opens at Kualalampur (August 4);

U.S.A. and Panama reach agreement on control over Panama Canal (Aug. 10);

New Soviet Constitution inaugurated (Oct. 7);

Admission of Vietnam to the U.N.O.

1978
White-black accord on interim government in Rhodesia (Feb. 15);

Mr. Z.A. Bhutto, the deposed Pakistan P.M. sentenced to death with four others (March 18);

Special U.N. Session on Disarmament (May and June);

Non-aligned Nations Foreign Ministers conference in Belgrade (July-August);

Sri Lanka adopts new constitution (Sept. 7),

Israel and Egypt reach accord at Camp David (Setp. 18);

Death of Pope Paul I (Sept. 29); Pope Paul II installed (Oct. 22);

Widespread violence in Iran. 1979

Start of the International year for the children (Jan. 1);

Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed President of Iran;

China invades Vietnam (Feb. 17);

China declares ceasefire in Vietnam (March 3);

 Iran is proclaimed an Islamic Republic (April 1);

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto hanged (April 4);

Egypt Israel Peace Treaty; UNCTAD-V held at Manila (May-June);

SALT-II signed by Russia and America (June 18);

Skylab falls on the earth (July 11);

6th Non-aligned Nations Summit Conference at Havana (Sept.).

1980
U.N. calls for Soviet troops withdrawal (Jan. 14);

UNIDO-III Conference in New Delhi (Feb. 9);

Mr. Abolhassan Bani Sadr elected the first President of Iran (Feb. 4);

U.S.A. back in I.L.O. (March 4);

Mugabe’s victory in Rhodesia, Nepal favours partyless panchayat system, Rhodhesia becomes Zimbabwe (April 17);

Marshall Tito is dead (May 4);

Death of Japan’s Prime Minister Masooshi Ohira.

to be continued...