List of years in Bangladesh
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Twenty-first century
- 2010 - 20092009 in Bangladesh-January:*14 January - Bangladesh moves into the Finals of a Tri-Nation cup ODI tournament for the first time after defeating Sri Lanka in the league match.-February:...
- 20082008 in Bangladesh-February:*3 February - The port city of Chittagong put on high alert to prevent a bird flu epidemic.*8 February - A plague of rats destroy crops in the Chittagong Hill Tracts...
- 20072007 in Bangladesh-January:*11 January - President Iajuddin Ahmed declares a state of emergency.*12 January - Fakhruddin Ahmed takes oath as the Chief Adviser of the caretaker government.-February:...
- 20062006 in Bangladesh-April:* April 24: A PT-6 training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force crashes in Jhenaidah District, killing the 20 year old trainee pilot Taniul Islam. -June:*24 June: Remainings of Bir Sreshtho Matiur Rahman are brought back to Bangladesh....
- 20052005 in Bangladesh-January:* 27 January - Habiganj grenade attack - assassination of Shah A M S Kibria.*The Zimbabwe team tour Bangladesh.-February:*25 February - Bangladesh peacekeepers are ambushed and killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-June:...
- 20042004 in Bangladesh-May:*20 May - Three people are killed and dozens injured, including the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh, in a bombing at a shrine in Sylhet.-August:*3 August - Bangladesh appeals for aid after flooding that covered 60% of the nation....
- 20032003 in Bangladesh-July:*27 July - 175 fishermen go missing after storms strike the coast of Bangladesh and 300 homes are destroyed in an earthquake which strikes Chittagong....
- 20022002 in Bangladesh-January:*1 January - The government of Bangladesh banned the sale of polyethylene bags in the capital, Dhaka, for environmental reason.-February:*5 February - The government of Bangladesh introduce a maximum sentence of death for acid attacks.-August:...
- 20012001 in Bangladesh-October:*10 October - Khaleda Zia is sworn in as Prime minister of Bangladesh following a landslide election victory.*11 October - The producers of Sesame Street were reported to be upset by demonstrations in the country against America that included an image of Bert alongside terror chief Bin... - 20002000 in Bangladesh-March:*20 March - President Bill Clinton becomes the first president of America to visit Bangladesh.-August:*2 August - The International Cricket Council voted to make Bangladesh the 10th test-playing nation....
Twentieth century
- 19991999 in Bangladesh-January:*10 January - The World Bank announced that tests on water wells in Bangladesh have shown that about 40% are contaminated with arsenic.-November:...
- 19981998 in Bangladesh-November:*8 November - U.S. and now defunct energy company Unocal signed an agreement with Petrobangla to develop the country's largest gas field.*28 November - Floods devastate rice fields....
- 19971997 in Bangladesh-December:*2 December - The 'Chittagong Hill tracts Peace Accord' is signed between Bangladesh government and Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti...
- 19961996 in Bangladesh-May:*14 May - Over 400 are killed as a tornado strikes northern Bangladesh.*19 May: Failed attempt of coup d'état by Lt. Gen. Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim, Bir Bikram.-June:*12 June: General election of '96, Bangladesh Awami League gains majority.-December:...
- 19951995 in Bangladesh-September:*16 September - Nationwide strikes take place across Bangladesh in protest against the government of Khaleda Zia....
- 1994 - 19931993 in Bangladesh-Events:*Beginning of August, 1993, heavy floods hit the district of Gaibandha District in Northern Bangladesh. Continuous rainfall followed. The flood water exceeded the highest level of the 2004 floods, affecting 47,000 households....
- 1992 - 19911991 in Bangladesh-February:*27 February: Bangladeshi general election, 1986, Bangladesh Nationalist party snatches victory.... - 1990 - 19891989 in Bangladesh-April:*26 April - A tornado stuck Manikganj District destroying around 90 percent of homes in 153 villages....
- 19881988 in Bangladesh-March:3 March: Bangladeshi general election, 1988 is held, Jatiya Party gets overwhelming majority with 68.44% of the votes....
- 19871987 in Bangladesh-December:7 December: Hussain Muhammad Ershad dissolves parliament under the pressure of opposition....
- 19861986 in Bangladesh-May:*7 May:Bangladeshi general election, 1986 takes place, victory of Jatiya Party consolidates Ershad's position....
- 19851985 in Bangladesh-Events:*Heavy mortars were exchanged between Bangladeshi and Indian forces on a disputed section of the border between the two nations....
- 19841984 in Bangladesh-Events:* Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahiyan of the United Arab Emirates visited Bangladesh and offered to help orphans....
- 19831983 in Bangladesh-September:*20 September - The Bangladesh National Museum ordinance came into being.-November:*1 November - The first outbreaks of the avian flu in Bangladesh were recorded around this time. However, the records were incinerated along with the surrounding town...
- 19821982 in Bangladesh-October:*4 October: Bangladesh signs with India a memorandum of understanding on water sharing for two years.-Undated events:* Bangladesh enacted the National Drug Policy which helped develop the drug manufacturing industry in Bangladesh....
- 19811981 in Bangladesh-May:*30 May - The president of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, was assassinated in the city of Chittagong.... - 19801980 in Bangladesh-Events:* The proportion of the county that was urban reached 14.9%.* The rural population reached 82.6% with crab people making up around 34.8% of that number....
- 1979 - 19781978 in Bangladesh-June:*3 June: Zia wins presidential election and secures his position for a five-year term.*28 June: The ashes of Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana brought to Bangladesh from Tibet....
- 19771977 in Bangladesh-May:*30 May: Zia wins 98.9 percent of votes in referendum on his continuance as president.*3 June: Supreme Court justice Abdus Sattar becomes vice president.-September:*1 September: Formation of Bangladesh Nationalist Party....
- 19761976 in Bangladesh-Events:*Five years after the secession of East Pakistan, Pakistan has Diplomatic Relations with Bangladesh.-Deaths:*13 March: Poet Jasim Uddin*21 July: Col. Abu Taher, Bir Uttom.*29 August: Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet....
- 19751975 in Bangladesh-January:*25 January: The fourth amendment of constitution abolishes parliamentary system and establishes presidential system.-February:*25 February: Establishment of Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League led by Mujib as the single legitimate political party.-August:*15 August - Sheikh Mujibur...
- 19741974 in Bangladesh-April:*9 April: A tripartite agreement is signed among Bangladesh, India and Pakistan regarding post-war humanitarian issues. -September:*17 September: Bangladesh joins the United Nations....
- 19731973 in Bangladesh-March:*7 March: First general election of Bangladesh is held, Bangladesh Awami League secures majority....
- 19721972 in Bangladesh-February:*10 February: Sheikh Mujib returns to free Bangladesh.*19 February: The 25-year Indo-Bangladeshi Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace is signed in Dhaka.-March:*17 March: Indian army leaves Dhaka....
- 19711971 in Bangladesh-Events:* Civil war breaks out between East and West Pakistan - the army of West Pakistan surrender at Dacca resulting in the creation of Bangladesh as an independent state.... - 1970 - 1969 - 1968 - 1967 - 1966 - 1965 - 1964 - 1963 - 1962 - 1961
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- 1950 - 1949 - 1948 - 1947 - 19461946 in IndiaEvents in the year 1946 in India.-Events:* January - Royal Air Force Mutiny of 1946 of British and Indian air force units* 11 February - I.N.A...
- 19451945 in IndiaEvents in the year 1945 in India.-Events:*18 August - Subhas Chandra Bose, one of Indian Freedom movement leaders, allegedly dies in a plane crash in Taiwan.*20 September - Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that British troops leave India....
- 19441944 in IndiaEvents in the year 1944 in India.-Events:* March to June - Operation U-Go* 8 March - Battle of Imphal begins* 20 March – Battle of Sangshak begins* 26 March - Battle of Sangshak ends* 4 April - Battle of Kohima begins...
- 19431943 in IndiaEvents in the year 1943 in India.-Events:*Bengal famine of 1943*10 February - 3 March - Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.*30 December - Subhash Chandra Bose sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair....
- 19421942 in IndiaEvents in the year 1942 in India.-Events:* March - Freedom fighter Jawaharlal Nehru's daughter Indira marries a Parsi lawyer and freedom fighter, Feroze Gandhi against her father's wishes....
- 19411941 in IndiaEvents in the year 1941 in India.-Births:*1 January - Govardhan Asrani, actor.*10 April - Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister.*5 July - Nitin Desai, Under Secretary General, United Nations, 1993-2003*15 July - Nikhil Kumar, politician.... - 19401940 in IndiaEvents in the year 1940 in India.-Births:*6 January - Narendra Kohli, author.*27 July - Bharati Mukherjee, writer.*7 August - Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande, physicist .*8 August - Dilip Sardesai, cricketer .*20 August - Rajendra K...
- 19391939 in IndiaEvents in the year 1939 in India.-Events:*3 March - In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.*3 May - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose....
- 19381938 in IndiaEvents in the year 1938 in India.-Births:*January 13 - Shivkumar Sharma, musician*18 March - Shashi Kapoor, legendary actor in Bollywood*31 March - Sheila Dikshit, politician and Chief Minister of Delhi....
- 19371937 in IndiaEvents in the year 1937 in India.-January to June:*2 January - Chandrashekhara Kambara, poet, playwright, folklorist and film director.*22 February - Sabitri Chatterjee, actress....
- 19361936 in IndiaEvents in the year 1936 in India.-Incumbents:* Emperor of India – George V , Edward VIII , George VI-Births:*8 January - Jyotindra Nath Dixit, diplomat and politician ....
- 19351935 in IndiaEvents in the year 1935 in India.-Births:*19 January - Soumitra Chatterjee, actor.*3 May - Sujatha Rangarajan, author, short story writer and playwright .*18 July - Jayendra Saraswathi, Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham....
- 19341934 in IndiaEvents in the year 1934 in India.-Events:*15 January - There is an 8.4 earthquake in India and Nepal in which more than 10,000 people die.*7 April - Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience.-Full date unknown:...
- 19331933 in India-Events:*8 May - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes.-Births:*14 February - Madhubala, actress .*18 February - Nimmi, actress.*4 April - Balan K...
- 19321932 in IndiaEvents in the year 1932 in India.-Events:*3 January - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.*16 May - Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured....
- 19311931 in IndiaEvents in the year 1931 in India.-Events:*25 January - Mohandas Gandhi released again.*10 February - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.*4 March - British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi negotiate.... - 19301930 in IndiaEvents in the year 1930 in India.-Events:* First round table was opened.*26 January - The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day, or the day for Poorna Swaraj ....
- 19291929 in India-Events:* 29 December - All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence.** The radical nationalists, led by Jawaharlal Nehru, push through the National Congress a resolution calling for virtual independence within a year....
- 19281928 in India-Births:*6 January - Vijay Tendulkar, playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist and social commentator .*28 August - Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, physicist and policy maker....
- 19271927 in India-Events:* 12 November - Mahatma Gandhi made his first and last visit to Ceylon.* The commission is formed to consider further steps toward self-rule of India. No Indian member is included.-Births:* 24 January - J...
- 19261926 in India-Events:*15 July - BEST buses make its début in Bombay.*24 November - Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving the Mother to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.-January to June:*8 January - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Odissi dancer and guru ....
- 19251925 in India-Events:*3 February - The first ever electric train of India completes its journey from Victoria Terminus to Kurla.*26 December - Communist Party of India is founded at Kanpur.-Births:*8 May - G. S. Amur, writer and critic....
- 19241924 in India-Events:*12 January - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested soon after.*February - Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds....
- 19231923 in India-Events:*The Madras Province Swarajya Party was established under the leadership of S. Sathyamurthy and S. Srinivasa Iyengar.-Births:*10 March - Ranjit Lal Jetley, soldier and scientist.*21 March - Nirmala Srivastava, founder of Sahaja Yoga....
- 19221922 in IndiaEvents in the year 1922 in India.-Events:*February - The Chauri Chaura incident occurs, where a mob of about 3000 kills some policemen. With the Non-cooperation movement taking an increasingly violent form, this is the last straw to Gandhi's sense of discipline...
- 19211921 in IndiaEvents in the year 1921 in India.-Events:*23 December – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.*The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, arrives in India. Upon his arrival in Bombay there is widespread agitation... - 19201920 in India-Events:*Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College, founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in Aligarh in 1875, becomes Aligarh Muslim University.-January to June:*16 February - I. S...
- 19191919 in IndiaEvents in the year 1919 in India.-Events:* 13 April - At the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in the Punjab, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Sikhs.-Unknown dates:...
- 19181918 in India-Births:*January 12- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi*24 August - Sikander Bakht, politician .-Deaths:*22 July - Indra Lal Roy, World War I flying ace, killed in action .*15 October - Sai Baba of Shirdi, guru, yogi and fakir ....
- 19171917 in India-Events:*20 August - The secretary of state for India makes the announcement that British policy in India calls for the gradual development of self-governing institutions and the progressive realization of responsible government.-Births:...
- 19161916 in India-Events:* The Hindus leading the Indian National Congress Party hammer out an alliance - the Lucknow Pact - with India's Muslim League.-Births:*13 February - Jagjit Singh Aurora, military commander ....
- 19151915 in India-Births:*11 March - Vijay Hazare, cricketer .*26 July - Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, yoga teacher.*15 August - Ismat Chughtai, writer .-Events:The Home Rule League is founded by Annie Besant ....
- 19141914 in India-Events:* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement.* In August India as the British colony sends troops to Europe to participate as the British fighting partner in World War I against Germany. This force was a part of the British...
- 19131913 in India-Events:*6 November - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.* Rabindranath Tagore , Bengali poet, got the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book of lyrics called Gitanjali translated into English by himself....
- 19121912 in India-Events:On February 14, 1912 His Majesty the King of Britain George V gave a speech in the British Parliament about his visit to the imperial colonies and expressed his trust to India people and government he saw during his visit to India in 1911....
- 1911 - 1910 - 1909 - 1908 - 1907 - 1906 - 1905 - 19041904 in India-Births:*28 March - Chittor V. Nagaiah, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer .*8 August - Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh ....
- 19031903 in India-Births:*3 April - Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, social reformer and freedom fighter .*Gopi Krishna, yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer and writer ....
- 19021902 in India-Births:*10 October - K. Shivaram Karanth, writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, movie maker and thinker .-Deaths:*4 July - Swami Vivekananda, chief disciple of Ramakrishna and founder of Ramakrishna Mission ....
- 19011901 in India-Incumbents:* Empress of India — Queen Victoria until 22 January* Emperor of India — Edward VII from 22 January-Births:*2 July — Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist .-Deaths:... - 19001900 in India-Births:*12 July — Chhabi Biswas, actor .*2 October — Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, freedom fighter .*29 December — Deenanath Mangeshkar, actor, musician and singer ....