1955    Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations.

1976    Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.

1983    ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.

1990    New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.

1992    A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.

2006    243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.

2006    King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.

2006    The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.

2007    Nepal declares a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.

2008    The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.