Kite Runner

By terren93

  • 1839–1842 Anglo-Afghan war

    The First Anglo–Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts during the Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Central Asia between the United Kingdom and Russia, and also marked one of the worst setbacks inflicted on British power in the region after the consolidation of British Raj by the East India Company.

  • 1989 Soviet withdrawal

  • 1893 UK established an unofficial border separating Afghanistan from British India

    between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is poorly marked and approximately 2,640 kilometers (1,610 miles) long. It was established after the 1893 Durand Line Agreement between the Government of colonial British India and Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman Khan for fixing the limit of their respective spheres of influence

  • 1919 Afghanistan became independent

    Became the first Soviet Union Country

  • 1978 Military coup Afghanistan became a Marxist regime

  • 1979 Soviets launched an invasion of Afghanistan

  • 1992 Islamic rebellion - in-fighting between rebel groups

  • 1996 A group of Islamic students calling itself the Taliban seized control of Kabul

  • 1996 The Taliban took over the government of Afghanistan but the government was only recognised by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates

  • August 20, 1998, U.S. cruise missiles struck a terrorist training complex in Afghanistan believed to have been financed by Osama bin Laden

  • September 11 2001 - Taliban terrorists - al-Qaeda members - attacked New York's World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon

  • October 7 2001 - The Taliban refused to turn over Bin Laden and the U.S. and its allies began daily air strikes against Afghan military installations

  • December 7 2001 - the Taliban regime collapsed

  • December 2001 - Afghanistan interim government formed

  • June 2002 - Hamid Karzai became President

  • 2002 - 2003 - Peacekeeping forces entered the country

  • January 4, 2004 - New constitution introduced

  • March 2003 - US Offensive against Kandahar and al-Qaeda members

  • April 2004 - US Offensive along the Pakistan border against al-Qaeda members.Afghanistan

  • August 2003 - NATO assumed command of peacekeeping troops

  • September 2001 anti-Taliban guerrilla leader Ahmed Shah Masoud of the group referred to as the Northern Alliance was killed by suicide bombers

  • 1950's Afghanistan developed close ties with the Soviet Union during the cold war

  • 1926 Emir Amanullah founded an Afghan monarchy