20th Century
- In December 1923 Britain and Nepal formally signed a "treaty of perpetual peace and friendship" superseding the Sugauli Treaty of 1816 and upgrading the British resident in Kathmandu to an envoy.
- Slavery was abolished in Nepal in 1924.
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“The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.”
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