Afghanistan timeline

By ATBT

  • First Afghan state

  • Mir Wais Hotak successfully overthrew Gurgin Khan, and made the Afghan region independent from Persia

  • Afghan Empire established

  • Afghan Empire falls

    Afghan Empire falls

  • Afghanistan gains independence from Britian

    Afghanistan gains independence from Britian

  • Communist government with a system of checks and balances is made

  • Civil War and the collapse of communist Najibullah government

  • Afghanistan overthrows Soviet president Mohammad Najibullah

  • Afghanistan overthrows Soviet-installed president

  • Islamic/Taliban rule

  • Civil War leading to Taliban controlling most of Afghanistan

  • Afganistan becomes an official part of the Northern Alliance

  • Islamic/Taliban rule ends

  • Pakistan and Afghanistan clashed over the Durand Line

  • Afghanistan holds its first, direct, presidential election

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