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Een chronologisch overzicht van belangrijke gebeurtenissen:
1768 Prithvi Narayan Shah, een heerser uit het Gorkha gebied, verovert Kathmandu en legt de basis voor het land Nepal.
1792 Verdere uitbreiding van het gebied komt tot staan als ze in Tibet door de Chinezen verslagen worden.
1814-1816 Oorlog met de Engelsen. Diit eindigt met een verdrag waar in de grenzen Nepal vastgelegd worden. Deze grenzen zijn dezelfde tot op de dag van vandaag.
1846 De Rana-dynastie trekt de macht naar zich toe. Zij domineren vanaf dat moment de monarchie en sluiten het land hermetisch af voor de buitenwereld. De Rana's regeren als alleenheersers.
1923 In een verdrag met Groot-Brittannie wordt nogmaals de soevereiniteit van Nepal bevestigd.
1951 Er komt een eind aan het bewind van de Rana's. Een nieuwe dynastie neemt de plaats van de Rana's in, Tribhuwan wordt koning, en de anti-Rana elementen die dit teweeg gebracht hebben vormen een nieuwe regering. De grenzen gaan (voorzichtig) open!
1953 De hoogste bergtop ter wereld wordt voor het eerst bedwongen. Edmund Hillary en de Sherpa Tenzing Norgay bedwingen als eersten de berg.
1955 Nepal wordt lid van de Verenigde Naties.
1955 Koning Tribhuwan overlijdt en wordt opgevolgd door koning Mahendra.
1959 Vanaf dit jaar is er een multi-partijen systeem in Nepal.
1960 Koning Mahendra trekt de macht naar zich toe en zet het parlement buitenspel. Daarna volgen er nieuwe verkiezingen die gewonnen worden door de nepali Congres Party. B.P. Koirala wordt premier.
1962 Door een nieuwe grondwet komt er weer een een-partij, of beter gezegd geen-partij systeem, beter bekend onder de naam panchayat. Hierin heeft de koning het weer helemaal voor het zeggen. Alleen een select gedeelte van de bevolking mag stemmen.
1972 Koning Mahendra overlijdt en wordt opgevolgd door Birendra.
1985 De Nepal Congres Party begint met campagnes en demonstraties voor herstel van het meer-partijen systeem.
1986 Nieuwe verkieizngen worden geboycot door de NPC (Nepali Congress Party).
1989 Handels en transit blokkade door India, de situatie in het land verslechtert aanmerkelijk.
1990 Pro-democratie betogingen georganiseerd door de NPC en door linkse groeperingen. Veiligheidstroepen treden hier tegenop wat resulteert in dodelijke slachtoffers. Uiteindelijk geeft koning Birendra toe aan de eisen en gaat accoord met een nieuwe democratische grondwet..
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1991 - Nepali Congress Party wins first democratic elections. Girija Prasad Koirala becomes prime minister. Political instability 1994 - Koirala's government defeated in no-confidence motion. New elections lead to formation of Communist government. 1995 - Communist government dissolved. 1995 - Start of Maoist revolt which drags on for more than a decade and kills thousands. The rebels want the monarchy to be abolished. 1997 - Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba loses no-confidence vote, ushering in period of increased political instability, with frequent changes of prime minister. 2000 - GP Koirala returns as prime minister, heading the ninth government in 10 years. Palace killings 2001 1 June - King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and other close relatives killed in shooting spree by drunken Crown Prince Dipendra, who then shoots himself. Nepalese mourn the royal family slain in a shooting spree 2001 - Prince Gyanendra crowned King. 2001 July - Maoist rebels step up campaign of violence. Prime Minister GP Koirala quits over the violence; succeeded by Sher Bahadur Deuba. 2001 November - Maoists end four-month old truce with government, declare peace talks with government failed. Launch coordinated attacks on army and police posts. Emergency 2001 November - State of emergency declared after more than 100 people are killed in four days of violence. King Gyanendra orders army to crush the Maoist rebels. Many hundreds are killed in rebel and government operations in the following months. 2002 May - Parliament dissolved, fresh elections called amid political confrontation over extending the state of emergency. Sher Bahadur Deuba heads interim government, renews emergency. 2002 October - King Gyanendra dismisses Deuba and indefinitely puts off elections set for November. 2003 January - Rebels, government declare ceasefire. End of truce 2003 August - Rebels pull out of peace talks with government and end seven-month truce. The following months see resurgence of violence and frequent clashes between students/activists and police. 2004 April - Nepal joins the World Trade Organisation (WTO). 2004 May - Street protests by opposition groups demanding a return to democracy. Royalist Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa quits. Direct royal rule 2005 February - King Gyanendra assumes direct control and dismisses the government. He declares a state of emergency, citing the need to defeat Maoist rebels. 2005 April - King lifts the state of emergency amid international pressure. 2005 November - Maoist rebels and main opposition parties agree on a programme intended to restore democracy. 2006 April - King Gyanendra agrees to reinstate parliament following weeks of violent strikes and protests against direct royal rule. Maoist rebels call a three-month ceasefire. 2006 May - Parliament votes unanimously to curtail the king's political powers. The government and Maoist rebels begin peace talks, the first in nearly three years. Peace deal 2006 November - Government and Maoists sign a peace accord - the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) - declaring a formal end to a 10-year rebel insurgency. 2007 January - Maoist leaders enter parliament under the terms of a temporary constitution. Maoists join government 2007 April - Maoists join interim government, a move that takes them into the political mainstream. 2007 September - Three bombs hit Kathmandu in the first attack in the capital since the end of the Maoist insurgency. Maoists quit interim government to press demand for monarchy to be scrapped. This forces the postponement of November's constituent assembly elections. End of monarchy 2007 December - Parliament approves abolition of monarchy as part of peace deal with Maoists, who agree to re-join government. From bullets to the ballot box: Former rebels take part in landmark elections in April 2008 2008 January - A series of bomb blasts kill and injure dozens in the southern Terai plains, where activists have been demanding regional autonomy. 2008 April - Former Maoist rebels win the largest bloc of seats in elections to the new Constituent Assembly (CA), but fail to achieve an outright majority. 2008 May - Nepal becomes a republic. 2008 June - Maoist ministers resign from the cabinet in a row over who should be the next head of state. 2008 July - Ram Baran Yadav becomes Nepal's first president. 2008 August - Maoist leader Prachanda forms coalition government, with Nepali Congress going into opposition. Maoists leave government 2009 May - Prime Minister Prachanda resigns in a row with President Yadav. Maoists leave government after other parties oppose integration of former rebel fighters into national army. Veteran Communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal named new prime minister. Gurkha veterans with at least four years' service in the British army are given permission to settle in the UK. 2009 December - Four people are killed in clashes triggered by Maoist-led land grab in far west, giving rise to fears for peace process. Impasse over constitution 2010 May - Governing coalition and Maoist opposition extend deadline for drafting of new constitution to May 2011. 2010 June - PM Madhav Kumar Nepal quits under Maoist pressure. 2011 January - UN peace monitoring mission ends. 2011 February - Jhalnath Khanal elected premier, ending a seven-month stalemate during which Nepal had no effective government. 2011 May - Constituent Assembly fails to meet deadline for drawing up new constitution. 2011 August - PM Jhalnath Khanal resigns after government fails to reach compromise with opposition on new constitution and fate of former Maoist fighters. Parliament elects the Maoist party's Baburam Bhattari as prime minister. He vows to forge a cross-party consensus over the new constitution and the Maoist fighters issue. 2012 May - Prime Minister Bhattari dissolves parliament, calls elections for November after politicians miss a final deadline to agree on a new constitution. Mr Bhattari remains in charge of a caretaker government. 2013 March - Chief justice Khil Raj Regmi is appointed head of an interim unity government. 2013 April - Supreme Court suspends government plan to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate crimes committed during the civil war, citing concerns it could allow amnesties for serious crimes. 2013 May - Celebrations to mark 60th anniversary of first ascent of Mount Everest. 2013 November - Election for an assembly which will write a new constitution. Political deadlock as no party wins a majority. 2014 February - Sushil Koirala, the leader of the Nepali Congress, the country's largest political party, is elected as prime minister after securing parliamentary support. 2014 April - An avalanche on Mount Everest kills 16 Nepalese sherpa mountain guides, in the worst recorded accident in the mountain's history. The rest of the climbing season is cancelled as the sherpas demand better compensation, pay and conditions.