Splendid

A Thousand Splendid Suns

By colson1
  • Mariam is born

    Mariam is born
    *Not the exact date
    -Born to Jalil and Nana
  • King Zahir Shah is overthrown

    King Zahir Shah is overthrown
    king -Mariam is 14 at this time
    -Overthrown by Daoud Khan, his cousin, who was prime minister in Kabul
    -Kabul is the main city mentioned in ATSS
    -Mariam learns this when her dad comes to the Kolba to give her the necklace
  • Mariam turns 15

    Mariam turns 15
    -For her brithday, she asks Jalil to see a movie at his movie theater but Jalil doesn't follow through
    -Ends up going to Jalil's house and is not let in
  • One week later

    -Mariam moves in with Jalil after her mother commits suicide
    -Is not accepted by Jalil's other wives
  • Mariam is married off to Rasheed

    -Move to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan
  • Ramadan begins

    Ramadan begins
    -Rasheed is constantly angry because of the fasting
  • Akbar Khyber is murdered

    Akbar Khyber is murdered
    -Mariam is 19
    -A man named Mir Akbar Khyber, a prominent communist is found murdered
    -The murder is blamed on Daoud Khan's government
    -Two days later there is a large demonstration in Kabul
  • Airforce Colonel Abdul Qader makes an announcement

    Airforce Colonel Abdul Qader makes an announcement
    -Rebel forces seized the airport and key intersections in Kabul
    -Announced on the radio
    -Mariam hears this on the radio and does not understand what is happening
    -This event is seen as a new Afghanistan being born
  • Tariq steps on land mine

    Tariq steps on land mine
    -Loses one of his legs
    -Is 5 years old
  • Babi takes Laila and Tariq to the Buddha statues

    -Laila, Babi, and Tariq go to see the giant Buddha statues, one of the greatest historical artifacts in Afghanistan.
  • Soviets removed from Afghanistan

    -Occured the year Laila turned 14
    -Soviet Union collapsed and left Afghanistan
    -Mami rose from her bed for the first time in 5 years since Laila's brothers died
    -Mami no longer wore black, the war was over
  • More fighting in West Kabul

    -Babi tries to convince Mami to leave Kabul
    -Bodies found tied to trees and sometimes burned
    -Some bodies shot in the head and eyes gouged out
    -Laila's family is packing to leave but their house gets bombed
    -Laila's parents die
  • Rasheed and Mariam take in Laila

    -Rasheed and Mariam find Laila nearly unconscious in the rubble and take her to their home
    -Laila is told Tariq was killed
    -Rasheed soon asks to marry her and Laila quickly accepts
  • Laila feels the baby kick for the first time

    -Rasheed takes Laila to his shop
    -Laila feels the baby kick
  • Laila gives birth

    -Laila has a baby girl and Rasheed thinks it is his
    -Name her Aziza
    -The baby actually belongs to Tariq
  • Mariam hears about the Taliban

    -Rasheed brings home news that the Taliban had overthrown warlords in Kandahar and taken the city
    -The Taliban had been working their way into Kabul for two years before this
    -Rasheed believes the Taliban are pure and incorruptible and that they will bring peace and order
  • Taliban takes Kabul

    -Laila and Mariam go to welcome them with Rasheed
  • Laila is in labor

    -Taliban changed the hospital laws to all female
    -There is only one hospital available and it is in poor conditions
    -Laila has a c-section at the hospital without anesthetic
    -Delivers Rasheed's first boy
  • Resheed's store burns

    Resheed's store burns
    -Resheed's shoe business burns
    -Marks a time in the family's lives filled with starvation and struggle
  • Taliban plants TNT in Buddhas in Bamiyan

    -the Taliban planted TNT in giant buddhas in Bamiyan because they were objects idolatry and sin
    -Governments around the world pleaded the Taliban
    -People are figuring out that the Taliban is not a good thing like they had hoped.
  • Aziza in the orphannage

    -Laila is no longer allowed to see Aziza a the orghannage because the Taliban banned women from being in public without men.
    -Rasheed refuses to visit Aziza after learning that she is not his daughter.
  • Marium is Killed

    Ghazi stadium-As punishment for killing her husband, Rasheed, she is executed at a stadium in Ghazi as entertainment for others.
  • World Trade Center is bombed

    World Trade Center is bombed
    9/11 video-Laila and Tariq watched it happen on hotel television
    -Osama Bin Laden was a lead terrorist in this attack
    -Americans begin to bomb Afghanistan
  • Taliban collapses

    collapse-Mullah Omar surrenders Kandahar
    -The surrender of this center signifies the collapse of the Taliban