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Ancient Palaeolithic Soanian Culture, c. 500,000 – 250,000 BCE Neolithic Mehrgarh, c. 7000 – c. 3000 BCE Indus Valley Civilisation, c. 3300 – c. 1700 BCE Vedic Civilization, c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE Achaemenid Empire, c. 550 – c. 330 BCE Gedrosia, c. 542 – c. 330 BCE Gandhara, c. 518 – c. 330 BCE Arachosia, c. 518 – c. 330 BCE Hindush, c. 517 – c. 330 BCE Sattagydia, c. 516 – c. 330 BCE Ror Dynasty, c. 489 – c. 450 BCE Macedonian Empire, c. 329 – c. 323 BCE Arachosia, c. 323 – c. 312 BCE Gedrosia, c. 323 – c. 312 BCE Paropamisadae, c. 323 – c. 312 BCE Porus, c. 323 – c. 312 BCE Taxiles, c. 323 – c. 312 BCE Mauryan Empire, c. 322 – c. 200 BCE Seleucid Empire, c. 312 – c. 63 BCE Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, c. 190 – c. 140 BCE Indo-Greek Kingdom, c. 170 – c. 50 BCE Indo-Scythian Kingdom, c. 110 BCE – c. 95 CE Apracharajas, c. 25 BCE – c. 50 CE Paratarajas, c. 120 – c. 300 CE
Classical Parthian Empire, c. 90 BCE – c. 25 CE Indo-Parthian Kingdom, c. 25 – c. 80 CE Kushan Empire, c. 60 – 345 CE Sasanian Empire, c. 250 – 655 CE Indo-Sasanians, c. 240 – 410 CE Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom, c. 240 – 410 CE Gupta Empire, c. 345 – c. 455 CE Rai Dynasty, c. 415 – 644 CE Hephthalite Empire, c. 450 – 560 CE Brahman Dynasty, c. 641 – 725 CE
Medieval Caliphate, c. 643 – 860 CE Rashidun Caliphate, c. 643 – 661 CE Umayyad Caliphate, c. 670 – 860 CE Pala Empire, c. 770 – 850 CE Habbari Dynasty, c. 841 – 1024 CE Kabul Shahi, c. 870 – 1010 CE Samanid Empire, c. 905 – 999 CE Ghaznavids, c. 999 – 1186 CE Soomra Dynasty, c. 1024 – 1351 CE Ghurid Dynasty, c. 1170 – 1215 CE Delhi Sultanate, c. 1206 – c. 1526 CE Mamluk Dynasty, c. 1206 – c. 1290 CE Khalji Dynasty, c. 1290 – c. 1320 CE Tugluq Dynasty, c. 1320 – c. 1413 CE Sayyid Dynasty, c. 1414 – c. 1451 CE Lodhi Dynasty, c. 1451 – c. 1526 CE Mongol Empire, c. 1221 – c. 1327 CE Chagatai Khanate, c. 1225 – c. 1485 CE Ilkhanate, c. 1256 – c. 1353 CE Raees Dynasty, c. 1320 – 1620 CE Katoor Dynasty, c. 1570 – c. 1947 CE Samma Dynasty, c. 1351 – c. 1524 CE Arghun Dynasty, c. 1520 – c. 1554 CE Mughal Empire, c. 1526 – c. 1707 CE Bombay Presidency, c. 1618 – c. 1947 CE Suri Dynasty, c. 1540 – c. 1556 CE Tarkhan Dynasty, c. 1554 – 1591 CE
Early modern Durrani Empire, c. 1747 – c. 1826 CE Las Bela, c. 1802 – c. 1947 CE Misl, c. 1716 – c. 1799 CE Maratha Empire, c. 1758 – c. 1760 CE Sikh Empire, c. 1799 – c. 1849 CE British Raj, c. 1858 – c. 1947 CE Independence Movement
Modern Pakistan, c. 1947 CE – present Dominion of Pakistan, c. 1947 – 1956 CE Islamic Republic, c. 1956 CE – present
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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. See also the list of Presidents of Pakistan and list of Prime Ministers of Pakistan and the list of years in Pakistan.

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^[1] 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^[2] (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, Khybar Pakhtoon Khwa, Kashmir, Indus, Sindh and the last three letters of Balochistan.

BC

• 1,900,000 BC: A stone artifact is discovered in Riwat, dated to this period.^[3] Although the dating remains disputed because artifact was not found in its original context.^[4]
• 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
• 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)
• 1700 BC – 0600 BC: Start of the Aryan civilization in Sapta Sindhu, Punjab and of Indus culture, Rigvedic civilization the day of Pakistan
• 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)^[5]
• 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
• 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
• 1351: Samma Dynasty assumed rule over Sindh
• 1398: Tamerlane plunders Lahore
• 1472: Sher Shah Suri (original name Farid Khan born in Multan)
• 1526 – 1857: Mughal ascendancy (1526–1707), nominal rule by Mughals (1707–1857)
• 1541 – 1545: Sher Shah Suri built the Rohtas Fort
• 1586: Yusufzais defeat Akbar in the Karakar pass^[6]
• 1701: Kalhoro Dynasty establishes its rule over Sindh
• 1739: Nadir Shah of Persia invades Mughal Empire
• 1751–52: Ahmed Shah Abdali annexes Punjab to his kingdom
• 1758–59: Maratha conquest of North-west India
• 1782: The Baloch tribe of Talpur defeats the last Kalhora ruler Mian Abdul Nabi in the battle of Halani
• 12 April 1801— 27 June 1839: Sikhs become dominant force in Punjab, Ranjit Singh rules (1799–1839),
• 1843: British defeat Talpurs in the battle of Miani and annex Sindh^[7]
• 29 March 1849: British defeat Sikhs and annex Punjab
• 1 November 1857 The British control most present-day Pakistan region and incorporate it as part of the British Indian Empire.
• 30 December 1906: A new political party All-India Muslim League formed to protect rights of Muslims in British Indian Empire.
• 1909: Muhammad Ali Jinnah was elected to the Legislative Council in 1909
• 1913: Prominent Muslim leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah, acknowledging that Hindu dominant Indian Congress failing to protect Indian Muslim rights, joined the All India Muslim League (AIML). Now he was member of both the political parties, later became leader of the All-India Muslim League and instrumental in the creation of Pakistan.
• 1920: Having disagreement with Gandhi on the issue of Swaraj (self-rule), complete freedom from the British and on using extra-constitutional means, Jinnah resigned from the Congress in 1920
• 29 December 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.
• 31 May 1935: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 jolted Quetta killing over 50,000 people
• 14 August 1947: Pakistan is created.

Post-Independence

• 11 September 1948: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the first governor general of Pakistan, passes away.

• March 12 1949 – Objectives Resolution passes moved by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan.

• 16 October 1951: Prime minister Liaqat Ali Khan assassinated.

October 16 – Liaquat Ali Khan assassinated in Rawalpindi. October 17 – Finance Minister Ghulam Mohammad (1895–1956) of Muslim League becomes the third Governor General. Governor General Khawaja Nazimuddin of Muslim League becomes second Prime Minister.

• 1955: Constitutional crisis, Bogra removed, new assembly, new cabinet.

• 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.

• 7 October 1958: After a military coup dictorial Ayub Khan takes over.

• 1960: Ayub Khan becomes first elected president
• 1 August 1960: Islamabad is declared as the principal seat of the Government of Pakistan.

In 1962 the second temporary constitution was made which didn't last long and ended soon till the final Constitution of Pakistan was made in 1973.

• 2 January 1964: Fatima Jinnah lost the presidential elections, Ayub completes the second term.

• 6 September 1965: Second war between Pakistan and India over Kashmir.

• 10 January 1966: Pakistan and Republic of India sign agreement to end hostilities.

• 30 November 1967: Pakistan Peoples Party founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Lahore.

• 25 March 1969: Ayub Khan resigns; Yahya Khan declares martial law and assumes presidency.

• 7 December 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;
• 20 December 1971: Yahya Khan resigns.

• 1972: Karachi labour unrest of 1972 and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes president.

• 14 August 1973: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes prime minister.

• 7 March 1977: Pakistani general election, 1977
• 5 July 1977: General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq overthrows prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and declares martial law.

• 11 June 1978: Altaf Hussain founded All Pakistan Muhajir Student Organization (APMSO) in Karachi University.
• 16 September 1978: General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq becomes Pakistan's sixth president.

• 4 April 1979: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto hanged.
• 1979: The military ruler Zia Ul-Haq enacts the Hudood Ordinances.

• 18 March 1984: Azeem Ahmed Tariq & Altaf Hussain founded the MQM (Muhajir Qaumi Movement) in Karachi and Hyderabad.

• 28 February 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
• 20 January 1988: Prominent Pashtun leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan dies in Peshawar.
• 30 September 1988: 1988 Hyderabad massacre
• 16 November 1988: Pakistani general election, 1988

• 6 August 1990: President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismisses Benazir Bhutto government; Mian Nawaz Sharif becomes the next prime minister
• 24 October 1990: Pakistani general election, 1990

• 1991: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif begins economic liberalisation programme. Islamic Shariah law formally incorporated into legal code.

• 25 March – Pakistan Won cricket the 1992 Cricket World Cup Final
• 19 June – Pakistan Army started Operation Clean-up

• 18 July 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.

• 5 November 1996: President Farooq Leghari dismisses Bhutto government.

• 3 February 1997: Pakistani general election, 1997, Nawaz Sharif becomes prime minister for the second time.

• 28 May 1998: Pakistan conducts nuclear tests.

• 12 October 1999: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif overthrown in military coup led by General Pervez Musharraf.

2001

• 20 June: General Pervez Musharraf dismissed the president and named himself to the post.
• 15 July: Agra Summit starts. President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee holds talks over long-standing issues.
• 14 August: New Local Government system installed, after holding of elections in three phases.
• 16 September: US Secretary of State Powell told that Pakistan's President Musharraf had agreed to support the U.S. anti-terrorist campaign.
• 10 November: US President Bush meets President Musharraf in New York and assures additional aid of one billion dollars.

2002

• 5 January: Musharraf stunned Vajpayee by a hand-shake at the last 11th SAARC summit in Kathmandu.
• 1 February: Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl killed in Karachi.
• 16 March: War in North-West Pakistan begins.
• 30 April: General Pervez Musharraf wins a referendum thus ensures 5 more years in office.
• 8 May: 2002 Karachi bus bombing, 15 killed.
• 24 August: President General Musharraf issues the Legal Framework Order 2002.
• 10 October: Pakistani general election, 2002, First general elections since the 1999 military coup held.
• 23 November: Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali sworn in as Prime Minister.

2003

• 24 February: Senate elections: Ruling party wins most seats in voting to the upper house.
• 23 March: AAJ TV, Pakistan's premier channel inaugurated.
• 24 June: President Pervez Musharraf meets G.W. Bush in Camp David. US announces $3-billion five-year economic assistance package for Pakistan.
• 4 July: 2003 Quetta mosque bombing, 44 killed.
• 11 July: Lahore-Delhi bus service resumed after suspension of 18 months.
• 14 December: General Musharraf survived an assassination attempt in Rawalpindi.

2004

• 1 January: General Musharraf won a vote of confidence in the Senate, National Assembly, and provincial assemblies.
• 5 January: Musharraf meets Vajpayee in Islamabad, discusses Kashmir dispute.
• 22 May: Pakistan readmitted to Commonwealth.
• 26 June: Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali steps down and nominates Ch. Shujaat Hussain as his interim successor.
• 28 August: Shaukat Aziz becomes Prime Minister.
• 17 October: Pakistani physician Dr.Muhammad Saeed Fazal Karim Beebani sets new world record for having the smallest Holy Qur'an of the world. His claim was accepted by Guinness world record administration.

2005

2007

• 3–11 July: Siege of Lal Masjid
• 19 October: 2007 Karsaz bombing, 180 killed.
• 4 September: September 2007 bombings in Rawalpindi, 25 killed.
• 27 December: Benazir Bhutto assassinated, aged 54. (b. 1953)

2008

• 9 February: 2008 Charsadda bombing, 27 killed.
• 6 July: 2008 Lal Masjid bombing, 18 policeman killed and 1 civilian.^[8]
• 18 August: Pervez Musharraf resigns.
• 21 August: 2008 Wah bombing, 70 killed.

2009

• 27 March: 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing, 48–70 killed.
• 4 April: 2009 Islamabad Frontier Corps post bombing, 5 killed.
• 5 April: 2009 Chakwal mosque bombing, more than 30 killed.
• 9 June: Pearl Continental hotel bombing, 17 killed.
• 20 October: 2009 International Islamic University bombing, 4 killed.
• 2 November: November 2009 Rawalpindi bombing, 35 killed.
• 4 December: December 2009 Rawalpindi attack, 40 killed.

2010

• 10 January: January 2010 Bajaur bombing, 16 killed.
• 3 February: February 2010 Lower Dir bombing, 8 killed.
• 5 February: February 2010 Karachi bombings, 25 killed.
• 18 February: February 2010 Khyber mosque bombing, 30 killed.
• 12 March: Lahore church bombings, more than 72 killed.
• 5 April: April 2010 U.S consulate and ANP attack, 50 killed.
• 5 April: 2010 Timergarah bombings, 46 killed.
• 17 April: April 2010 Kohat bombings, 58 killed.
• 19 April: 19 April 2010 Peshawar bombing. 25 killed.
• 28 May: 2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, 87 killed.
• 1 July: July 2010 Lahore bombings, 50 killed.
• 9 July: Mohmand Agency bombing, 104 killed.
• 1 September: September 2010 Lahore bombings, 38 killed.
• 3 September: September 2010 Quetta bombing, 73 killed.
• 5 November: 2010 Darra Adam Khel mosque bombing, 66 killed.
• 25 December: December 2010 Bajaur bombing, 47 killed.

2011

• 3 April: 2011 Dera Ghazi Khan bombings, more than 50 killed.
• 12 June: June 2011 Peshawar bombings, more than 34 were killed.
• 19 August: 2011 Khyber Agency bombing, more than 48 killed.

2012

• 26 February: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won her first Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for Saving Face, becoming the very first Pakistani Oscar winner

2013

• 10 January: January 2013 Pakistan bombings, 130 killed.
• 7 May: 7 May 2013 Syed Janan election rally bombing, 18–25 killed.
• 11 May: Pakistani general election, 2013
• 15 June: June 2013 Quetta attacks, 26 killed.
• 18 June: 2013 Mardan funeral bombing, 28 killed.
• 21 June: 2013 Peshawar mosque bombing, 15 killed.
• 8 August: August 2013 Quetta bombing, 31 killed.
• 22 September: Peshawar church bombing, 127 killed.
• 29 September: Qissa Khawani Bazaar bombing, 41 killed.

2014

• 7 January: Aitzaz Hasan died between Preventing suicide bomber attack at his school in Hangu District, sacrificed his own life to save the lives of hundreds of his mates.
• 19 January: 2014 Bannu bombing, 26 killed.
• 19 January: 2014 Rawalpindi suicide bombing, 14 killed.
• 2–11 February: 2014 Peshawar cinema bombings, 13 killed.
• 3 March: Islamabad court attack, 11 killed.
• 2 November: 2014 Wagah border suicide attack, 60 killed.
• 16 December: 2014 Peshawar school massacre, 148 killed.

2015

• 13 February: 2015 Peshawar mosque attack, 19 killed.
• 15 March: Lahore church bombings, 19 killed.
• 23 October: 2015 Jacobabad bombing, 22 killed.

2016

• 20 January: Bacha Khan University attack, 20 killed.
• 28 February: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won her second Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
• 16 March: 2016 Peshawar bus bombing, 15 killed
• 27 March: 2016 Lahore suicide bombing, 75 killed.
• 16 September: 2016 September Pakistan mosque bombing, 36 killed.
• 24 October: 2016 Peshawar bus bombing, 62 killed.
• 12 November: 2016 Khuzdar bombing, 47 killed.

2017

• 2017 Pakistan Super League began.

2018

• 25 July: Pakistani general election, 2018 are held.

See also

• Pakistan
• History of Pakistan
• Timeline of Karachi
• Timeline of Lahore
• Timeline of Peshawar

References

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