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100,000 B.C.-- First known people settle in the region now known as Afghanistan |
| 652 -- Arabs invade Afghanistan; Islam introduced |
| circa 1220 -- Genghis Khan invades Afghanistan |
| 1893 -- Afghanistan becomes buffer state between Russia and British India |
| 1933-1973 -- Muhammad Zahir Shah reigns |
| 1946 -- Afghanistan is admitted to the United Nations |
| 1972 -- University of Nebraska at Omaha establishes Center for Afghanistan Studies |
| 1978 -- Communist coup, called the “April Revolution”; mujahedeen (Afghan guerrilla movement) begins |
| 1979 -- Soviet Red Army sweeps into Afghanistan |
| 1989 -- Red Army withdraws |
| 1992 -- Mujahedeen forms New Islamic Republic |
| 1994-- Taliban emerges in Kandahar |
| 1996 -- Taliban captures Kabul; gains outside notice for extreme Islamic policies |
| March 2001-- Taliban destroys ancient statues in Kabul Museum and 5th century Buddha statues in Hindu Kush mountains |
| Sept. 11, 2001 – Terrorist attacks kill thousands in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania; Afghanistan-based Osama bin Laden eventually claims responsibility |
| September 2001 -- U.S. attacks Afghanistan |
| December 2001 -- Taliban relinquishes power; Pashtun royalist Hamid Karzai is sworn in as head of interim government |
| November 2004 -- Karzai is elected president |
| September 2005 – Afghans vote in first parliamentary and provincial elections in more than 30 years |
SOURCES Greenblatt, Miriam. Afghanistan. Scholastic, 2003 |