Post-creation Era of The 20th Century
- 1948: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the first governor general of Pakistan, passes away
- 1951: Prime minister Khan Liaqat Ali Khan assassinated
- 1954: Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Abul Asar Hafeez Jullundhri and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.
- 1954: Constituent Assembly unanimously passes the resolution in favour of Urdu and Bengali as national languages.
- 1956: The Constituent Assembly promulgates first indigenous constitution
- 1956: Constituent Assembly decides the country shall be a Federal Republic known as Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
- 1958: After a military coup dictorial Ayub Khan takes over
- 1960: Ayub Khan becomes first elected president
- August 1, 1960: Islamabad is declared as the principal seat of the Government of Pakistan.
- January 2, 1964: Fatima Jinnah lost the presidential elections, Ayub completes the second term
- 1965: Second war between Pakistan and India over Kashmir
- 1969: Ayub Khan resigns; Yahya Khan declares martial law and assumes presidency
- 1971: East Pakistan attempts to secede, leading to civil war; India intervenes in support of East Pakistanis; Pakistan fights another war with India; East Pakistan breaks away to become Bangladesh; Yahya Khan resigns.
- 1972: Karachi labour unrest of 1972 and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes president
- 1973: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes prime minister
- 1977: General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq overthrows prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and declares martial law
- 1978: General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq becomes Pakistan's sixth president
- 1979: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto hanged
- 1979: The military ruler Zia Ul-Haq enacts the controversial Hudood Ordinances
- 1985: General elections held; Muhammad Khan Junejo becomes prime minister
- 1988: Army ammunition blown up in Ojheri camp, Rawalpindi; more than 100 people die.
- 1988: Zia dismisses Junejo's government; Zia dies in a plane crash; New elections held; Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister
- 1988: Prominent Pashtun leadar Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan dies in Peshawar
- 1990: President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismisses Benazir Bhutto government; Mian Nawaz Sharif becomes the next prime minister
- 1991: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif begins economic liberalisation programme. Islamic Shariah law formally incorporated into legal code.
- 1993: President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif both resign under pressure from military. Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister for the second time
- 1996: President Farooq Leghari dismisses Bhutto government
- 1997: General elections held; Nawaz Sharif becomes prime minister for the second time
- May 28, 1998: Pakistan conducts nuclear tests
- 1999: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif overthrown in military coup led by General Pervez Musharraf
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