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Some important dates in the history of Pakistan.
2800 BCE - 1800 BCE
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These people developed bronze.
1500 BCE - 500 BCE
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This brought Hinduism to the region.
519 BCE
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The Persians add Pakistan to their Achaemined Empire.
326 BCE
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The Greeks take the area.
180 BCE - 165 BCE
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Pakistan is taken by Demetrius of Bactria.
165 BCE - 150 BCE
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Pakistan flourishes under this ruler.
489 - 632
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At its zenith it ruled the area.
642 - 1219
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This defines the spread of Islam.
711
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Muhammad bin Qasim captures the southern area of the country.
975 - 1187
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This was a Muslim Empire after the Arabs took the area.
1206 - 1526
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Another Islamic empire during the Medieval Period.
1526 - 1857
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This brought introduced high culture to the region.
1857
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This was an armed uprising against the British however it failed.
1858 - 1947
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The Indian subcontinent is a British colony.
1920 - 1947
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The Indian National Court called for peaceful protest against the British.
1930 - 1947
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These men called for a "separation of states" between India and Pakistan.
1947
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After Independence and the Indian Split the new Pakistan is in two pieces, one modern day Pakistan and the other modern day Bangladesh.
1947
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India andPakistan go to war over the northern areas of the region.
1947
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The Pakistanis become independent of the British Raj.
1947
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Islamic Pakistan and Hindu India become separate countries after the British are gone.
1962
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Pakistan supported China in a war against India.
1965
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A war with India occurs.
1967
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Pakistan shot down 10 Israeli aircraft during this conflict to help its Arab neighbors.
1970
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Pakistan was under a mixed rule of Monarchs and a Military coup until the first democratic elections in 1970.
1971
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After another deadly conflict with India East Pakistan turns into its own sovereign state of Bangladesh.
1979
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Pakistan and the supported Afghan Rebels with help from the U.S. against the U.S.S.R.
1985
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The Constitution of 1973 is reestablished, this is Pakistan's current constitution.
1990
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The U.S. imposed sanctions on Pakistan for holding and testing nuclear weapons.
2003
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Pakistan joins a group of developing countries that have bonded together.
2011
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Al-Queda leader Osama Bin Laden, the planner of the 9/11 attacks is found and killed in a compound while hiding in Pakistan by the U.S.
A group of familiar dates that help to make the Pakistani dates more relevant.
563 BCE
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551 BCE
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220 BCE
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4 BCE
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570
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1095 - 1291
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1206
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1440
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1492
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1712
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1803 - 1815
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1939 - 1945
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1945 - 1991
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