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Here’s a take a look at Tibet, an autonomous area inside China.
(from National Bureau of Statistics of China)
Area: 1.22 million sq km (roughly 474,000 sq miles)
Capital: Lhasa
Language: Tibetan
Government (China): Governed by the Chinese Communist Party; the top of state is President Xi Jinping.
Government (Exiled): Centered in Dharamsala, India, features a popularly elected meeting of deputies, ministers, a cupboard chairman (much like a main minister).
Tibet is an internationally acknowledged autonomous area inside the People’s Republic of China, although many Tibetans dispute the legitimacy of China’s rule.
Tibet is formally known as the Tibet (Xizang) Autonomous Region (TAR).
The Tibet Autonomous Region lies within the Plateau of Tibet, additionally known as the Tibetan Highlands, which additionally consists of parts of China’s Qinghai and Sichuan provinces and the Uygur Autonomous Region Xinjiang. A little bit greater than half of the Plateau of Tibet lies outdoors of the TAR.
Mount Everest, the best level on earth, lies on the border between Tibet and neighboring Nepal.
1640 – Güüshi Khan invades Tibet and defeats a regional king.
1642 – Khan enthrones the Dalai Lama as ruler of Tibet. Dalai Lama is the title of the top of the Dge-lugs-pa, or Yellow Hat, order of Tibetan Buddhists.
1792 – Tibet closes itself off to overseas guests.
1904 – Tibet and Great Britain signal a treaty in Lhasa, ending a quick interval of navy aggression. The Dalai Lama flees to China. Great Britain’s curiosity is in securing commerce rights and it overcomes Tibetan resistance with power. China is just not concerned within the treaty negotiation.
April 27, 1906 – Great Britain and China signal a treaty recognizing China’s dominion of Tibet; the treaty is negotiated with none Tibetan participation.
1910 – China makes an attempt to realize bodily management of Tibet; the Dalai Lama flees and takes refuge in India.
1912 – China turns into a republic; Tibet declares its independence and expels the Chinese.
July 6, 1935 – Lhamo Dhondup, the longer term Dalai Lama, is born to a farming household in Taktser, Amdo Province, Tibet.
1938 – Dhondup is faraway from his household and brought to the Kumbum monastery after a delegation of monks in search of the brand new Dalai Lama finds him.
February 22, 1940 – Enthronement ceremony for the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, takes place in Lhasa, Tibet.
November 8, 1950 – Chinese troopers of the People’s Liberation Army invade Tibet at Lhasa.
November 17, 1950 – The Dalai Lama assumes full political energy as Tibetan Head of State and Government forward of schedule. Investiture is moved up from his 18th birthday because of China’s invasion of Tibet.
May 23, 1951 – A Tibetan delegation indicators a treaty with China, renouncing independence in return for spiritual and cultural autonomy.
March 1959 – The Dalai Lama, his authorities, and roughly 80,000 Tibetans flee to India.
1960 – Dharamsala, India, turns into residence to the Dalai Lama and headquarters of the government-in-exile of Tibet.
1963 – The Dalai Lama enacts a brand new Tibetan democratic structure based mostly on Buddhist ideas and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1965 – China establishes the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
1966 – The Cultural Revolution in China begins, ensuing within the closure of many monasteries and the secularization of Tibetan society.
May 1977 – The Chinese authorities makes the Dalai Lama a conditional supply, the chance to return to Tibet in return for acceptance of Chinese rule over Tibet. The supply is rejected.
July 1979 – China once more invitations the Dalai Lama to return on the situation that he acknowledge Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. The Dalai Lama rejects this supply too.
1980 – China begins a sequence of reforms in Tibet, encouraging financial improvement, reserving a majority of presidency posts for Tibetans, and requiring Chinese staff in Tibet to study the Tibetan language.
March 1989 – A march to demand Tibetan independence mushrooms right into a two-day riot, ensuing within the Chinese authorities’s declaration of martial legislation. The official demise toll is 16, although the precise demise toll is reported to be as excessive as 256.
April 30, 1990 – The Chinese authorities lifts martial legislation.
1993 – Representatives of the Dalai Lama start a decade of on-and-off talks with the Chinese authorities regarding autonomy in Tibet.
July 1, 2006 – The China-Tibet railway begins common service; the rail line terminates in Lhasa. Critics condemn the railway as a instrument for diluting Tibetan tradition.
March 10, 2008 – Buddhist monks stage the primary of 4 days of protest marches in Lhasa to commemorate the failed 1959 rebellion towards the Chinese authorities.
March 14, 2008 – Four days of protest marches finish in bloodshed. Tibetans say the scenario escalated to violence when Chinese police beat monks who had been protesting peacefully; Chinese authorities declare Tibetans launched assaults on Chinese companies. Officially the demise toll is below 20; Tibetans in exile say the demise toll is close to 150.
March 15, 2008 – China closes Tibet off to foreigners. The closure successfully ends the climbing season on the Tibetan facet of Mount Everest; the climbing season spans April, May and the start of June, with the first window of alternative going down in mid-May.
March 18, 2008 – The Dalai Lama says in an interview that he would step down as chief of Tibetan exiles if violence in Tibet have been to get uncontrolled.
April 2008 – Summer Olympic torch relay rallies in London, Paris and San Francisco are interrupted by demonstrations protesting China’s remedy of Tibet.
April 2008 – In Tibet, 30 persons are convicted of arson, theft and attacking authorities workplaces in connection to the March violence. They obtain jail sentences starting from three years to life.
May 8, 2008 – The Olympic flame reaches the summit of Mount Everest at 9:18 a.m. (9:18 p.m. ET May 7). Of the 31 climbers who carry the flame up Mount Everest, 22 are Tibetan. Five torchbearers, three Tibetan and two Han Chinese, carry the torch to the summit, and Tsering Wangmo, a 23-year previous Tibetan lady, carries the flame atop the height. Concurrently, the principle Olympic flame makes its manner throughout China as a part of the host nation’s relay.
June 12, 2008 – The Dalai Lama urges his supporters to not trigger hassle when the Olympic torch passes via Tibet; he additionally reiterates a basic plea for his supporters to not goal the torch or the Olympic Games.
June 21, 2008 – The Olympic torch passes via Lhasa with out incident.
June 25, 2008 – Three months after closing Tibet to foreigners, the Chinese authorities reopens the area to vacationers.
January 2009 – Tibetan lawmakers declare March 28 a vacation to mark the day China says a million individuals have been freed in 1959 from serfdom, in keeping with state media.
March 2009 – Near the primary anniversary of the riots and fiftieth anniversary of the failed Tibetan rebellion, a monk units himself on fireplace in Sichuan Province. He is shot at by police in keeping with human rights teams. State media declare the monk was transported to a hospital as quickly because the flames have been extinguished. Foreign vacationers are banned from Tibet throughout March.
March 2010 – A authorities chosen, authorized and groomed Panchen Lama, successor to the Dalai Lama, is appointed by the Chinese authorities. The Panchen Lama chosen by the Dalia Lama is denounced by Beijing as invalid as he was not chosen in keeping with custom.
February 2010 – China summons US Ambassador Jon Huntsman to specific its “strong dissatisfaction” of a gathering between the Dalai Lama and US President Barack Obama.
October 2010 – Tibetan college students protest the Chinese authorities overhaul of Tibet’s college system that limits the usage of the Tibetan language in faculties.
March 10, 2011 – The Dalai Lama publicizes he plans to retire as political head of the Tibetan exile motion.
March 16, 2011 – Monk Phuntsog units himself ablaze in protest on the third anniversary of the 2008 demonstrations.
April 27, 2011 – The Tibetan government-in-exile publicizes that Lobsang Sangay has been elected Tibetan Prime Minister, with 55% of the vote.
May 29, 2011 – The Dalai Lama approves amendments to the exiled structure, formally eradicating his political and administrative tasks. He stays the non secular chief.
August 15, 2011 – Monk Tsewang Norbu, 29, an activist, units himself ablaze, calling for Tibetan freedom.
February 2012 – The International Campaign for Tibet in Washington says 22 monks, nuns and different Tibetans have set themselves on fireplace within the final yr alone, in protest of Chinese rule.
March 26, 2012 – Jampa Yeshi, 27, a Tibetan protester, units himself alight in New Delhi forward of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s go to to India. He is hospitalized with burns on 90% of his physique and later succumbs to his accidents on March 28.
July 17, 2012 – Lobsan Lobzin, an 18-year-old Tibetan monk, units himself on fireplace in a monastery in China’s Sichuan province, in keeping with the Central Tibetan Administration.
August 13, 2012 – Two Tibetans set themselves on fireplace in Sichuan province. The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) named the 2 Tibetans as Lungtok, a monk from the restive Kirti monastery in southwest China, and an odd citizen named Tashi.
February 13, 2013 – An unidentified Tibetan man units himself ablaze in Katmandu, Nepal, close to a serious Buddhist construction. His actions coincide with the Tibetan competition of Losar, or New Year.
February 2014 – According to Tibetan advocacy teams, there have been at the least 125 self-immolations by Tibetans within the final 5 years.
April 25, 2015 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal killing greater than 8,000 individuals. China’s state-run Xinhua news company reviews 25 deaths in neighboring Tibet. Weeks afterward May 12, one other main earthquake strikes Nepal, killing at the least 94 individuals, together with a girl in Tibet.
March 23, 2018 – US President Donald Trump indicators the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 into legislation, which approves continued and extra funding for Tibetan communities inside Tibet, in addition to exiled Tibetans in India and Nepal.
December 9, 2022 – The US Treasury Dept. publicizes sanctions towards two Chinese officers over alleged human rights abuses in Tibet. On December 23, China publicizes sanctions towards two US residents and their relations in retaliation.