Timeline
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 1966 | Sikh majority Punjab state created (India split Punjab into three states (Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pardesh) | |
| March 1972 | Akalis routed in Punjab elections, Congress wins | |
| October 17, 1973 | Akalis demand autonomy | |
| April 25, 1980 | Baba Gurbachan Singh of Sant Nirankari sect shot dead. | |
| June 2, 1980 | Akalis lose election in Punjab | |
| Aug 16, 1981 | Militants in Golden Temple meet foreign correspndents | |
| Sept 9, 1981 | Jagat Narain, Editor, Hind Samachar group murdered. | |
| Sept 29, 1981 | Separatists Hijack Indian Jetliner to Pakistan | |
| Feb 11, 1982 | US gives Visa to Jagjit Singh Chauhan | |
| April 26, 1982 | Cows' heads thrown in Hindu temple | , |
| Apr 11, 1982 | USA Khalistani G.S. Dhillon Barred From India | |
| July 1982 | Chief Minister Darbara Singh escape assassination attempt | |
| Aug 4, 1982 | Akalis demand autonomy and additional regions for Punjab | |
| Oct 11, 1982 | Sikh stage protests at the Indian Parliament | |
| Nov 1982 | Longowal threatens to disrupt Asian Games | |
| Oct 1983 | 6 Hindu bus passengers killed | |
| Feb 27, 1983 | Sikhs permitted to carry daggers in domestic flights | |
| May 3, 1983 | Bhindranwale, living in Golden Temple, talks of violence | |
| Oct 8 1983 | Militants housed in Golden Temple kill Hindus throughout Punjab | |
| Oct 14, 1983 | Hindu festival bombed in Chandigarh | |
| Oct 18, 1983 | Hindus protest bomb attack on temple | |
| Oct 1983 | Hindus pulled off from trains and buses and killed | |
| Oct 7 1983 | Darbara Singh removed, all religious demands met | |
| Feb 9, 1984 | Hindu wedding procession bombed | |
| Feb 14, 1984 | Militants shoot and kill 5 from Golden Temple | |
| Feb 19, 1984 | Sikh-Hindu Clashes Spread in North India | |
| Feb 24, 1984 | 6 more Hindus killed in Punjab | |
| Feb 29, 1984 | Arsenal in the Golden Temple; by this time, the Temple had become the center of the 19-month-old uprising by the militant Sikhs | |
| April 3, 1984 | Young militants cause fear and instability in Punjab | |
| April 8, 1984 | Longowal writes- he cannot control anymore | |
| April 15, 1984 | Man shot dead in temple | |
| April 17, 1984 | Deaths in factional fighting | |
| May 27, 1984 | Ferosepur Hindu politician killed | |
| June 2, 1984 | Total media and the press black out in Punjab, the rail, road and air services in Punjab suspended. Foreigners' and NRIs' entry was also banned and water and electricity supply cut off. | |
| June 3, 1984 | Army controls Punjab security | |
| June 5, 1984 | Heavy fighting, Punjab shut-down from outside world. | |
| June 6, 1984 | 20,000 Sikhs killed in Punjab following June 3 invasion, daylong battle in Amritsar | |
| June 7, 1984 | Harmandir Sahib over taken by army. | |
| June 7, 1984 | Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale dead | |
| June 8, 1984 | 27 Sikhs killed in protests in Srinagar, Ludhiana, Amritsar after Government forces fired on protesters | |
| June 9, 1984 | Weapons seized, troops fired on | |
| June 10, 1984 | Reports of anti-Sikh riots and killings Delhi | |
| June 11, 1984 | Negotiators close to a settlement on waters | |
| June 12, 1984 | Sikh alienation, deserters, | |
| October 31, 1984 | Indira Gandhi killed | |
| November 1, 1984 | Mass Sikh killings begin in Delhi | |
| November 3, 1984 | Indian National Army and local police units manage to simmer the Anti Sikh Violence, a total of 2,733 Sikhs were killed in Delhi and more Sikh 2,000 killed in other towns and cities scores of Sikh women raped Sikh property worth crores of rupees looted or sacked. | |
| 20 August 1985 | Sant Harchand Singh Longowal assassinated | |
| September 29, 1985 | 60% vote, Akali Dal won 73 of 115 seats, Barnala CM | |
| December 1, 1986 | Sikh militants kill 24 Hindu bus passengers | |
| May 19, 1987 | General Secretary CPI(M)Comrade Deepak Dhawan murdered brutually at Village Sangha. Tarn Taran | |
| March 25, 1988 | Militants kill other Sikhs | |
| July 11, 1990 | Sikh Who Promoted Truce Is Shot to Death | |
| June 16, 1991 | 80 killed by militants on two trains | |
| February 25, 1992 | Congress sweeps Punjab Assembly elections | |
| September 3, 1995 | CM Beant Singh killed in blast | |
| 1997 | SAD and BJP win state elections | |
| June 2001 | Chauhan return to India | |
| February 26, 2002 | Congress wins majority in assembly | |
| April 4, 2007 | Jagjit Singh Chauhan, Sikh Militant Leader in India, Dies at 80 |
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