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Have a look at this Tibet, An autonomous region within China.
(Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China)
range: 1.22 million square kilometers (approximately 474,000 square miles)
capital: Lhasa
language: Tibetan
Government (China): ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. The head of state is President Xi Jinping.
Government (Exiled): Centered in Dharamsala, India, it includes commonly elected members of parliament, ministers, and the chairman of the cabinet (similar to a prime minister).
Tibet is an internationally recognized autonomous region within the People’s Republic of China, but many Tibetans question the legitimacy of Chinese rule.
Tibet is officially called the Tibet (Xizang) Autonomous Region (TAR).
The Tibet Autonomous Region is located on the Tibetan Plateau, also known as the Tibetan Plateau, and includes parts of China’s Qinghai and Sichuan provinces and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Just over half of the Tibetan Plateau is outside his TAR.
Mount Everest, the highest peak on earth, lies on the border between Tibet and neighboring Nepal.
1640 – Güüshi Khan invades Tibet and overthrows the local king.
1642 – Khan installs the Dalai Lama as ruler of Tibet. The Dalai Lama is the Tibetan Buddhist title for his Dge-lugs-pa, or Yellow Hat Chief.
1792- Tibet is closed to foreign tourists.
1904- Tibet and Britain sign a treaty at Lhasa, ending a brief period of military aggression. The Dalai Lama defected to China. Britain’s interest is in securing trade rights and overcoming Tibetan resistance with force. China is not involved in treaty negotiations.
April 27, 1906 – Britain and China sign a treaty recognizing China’s control of Tibet. The treaty will be negotiated without Tibetan participation.
1910- China is trying to take physical control of Tibet. The Dalai Lama escapes and takes refuge in India.
1912- China will become a republic. Tibet declares independence and expels the Chinese.
July 6, 1935 – Lhamo Dondup, who later became the Dalai Lama, was born into a farming family in Taktsar, Amdo, Tibet.
1938- Dondup is removed from his family and taken to Kumbum Monastery after a delegation of monks searching for a new Dalai Lama finds him.
February 22, 1940 – The enthronement ceremony of the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso takes place in Lhasa, Tibet.
November 8, 1950 – Chinese People’s Liberation Army soldiers invade Tibet at Lhasa.
November 17, 1950 – The Dalai Lama will assume full political power as Tibet’s head of state and government ahead of schedule. His ordination was moved up from his 18th birthday as a result of China’s invasion of Tibet.
May 23, 1951 – Tibetan delegation signs treaty with China, renouncing independence in exchange for religious and cultural autonomy.
From March 1959 The Dalai Lama, his government, and about 80,000 Tibetans flee to India.
1960- Dharamsala, India will be the home of the Dalai Lama and the headquarters of the Tibetan Government in Exile.
1963- The Dalai Lama enacted a new Tibetan democratic constitution based on Buddhist principles, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1965- China establishes the Tibet Autonomous Region.
1966- The Cultural Revolution began in China, closing many monasteries and secularizing Tibetan society.
From May 1977 The Chinese government has conditionally offered the Dalai Lama the opportunity to return to Tibet in return for accepting Chinese rule over it. Offer is declined.
From July 1979 China is again asking the Dalai Lama to return on the condition that he recognizes China’s sovereignty over Tibet. The Dalai Lama also rejects this offer.
1980- China initiated a series of reforms in Tibet to boost economic development, reserve most government posts for Tibetans, and make it mandatory for Chinese workers in Tibet to learn the Tibetan language.
From March 1989 A march demanding Tibetan independence erupted into two days of riots, prompting the Chinese government to declare martial law. The official death toll is 16 for him, but the actual death toll is reported as 256 for him.
From April 30, 1990 Chinese government lifts martial law.
1993- The Dalai Lama’s representatives begin ten years of on-and-off talks with the Chinese government on Tibet’s autonomy.
From July 1, 2006 China-Tibet Railway starts regular operation. The train ends in Lhasa. Critics have accused the railway of being a tool to dilute Tibetan culture.
From March 10, 2008 Monks march in the first of a four-day protest march in Lhasa to mark the failed 1959 uprising against the Chinese government.
From March 14, 2008 The four-day protest march ends in bloodshed. Tibetans say the situation escalated to violence when Chinese police beat a monk who was peacefully protesting. Chinese officials claim Tibetans launched attacks on Chinese companies. Officially the death toll is less than 20 for him. Tibetans in exile put the death toll at nearly 150 for him.
From March 15, 2008 China has closed Tibet to foreigners. The closure effectively ends the climbing season on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest. The climbing season spans his April, May and early June, with the main opportunities coming in mid-May.
From March 18, 2008 The Dalai Lama has said in an interview that he will step down as leader of Tibetan exiles if the violence in Tibet gets out of hand.
From April 2008 summer Olympic torch relay rallies in London, Paris and San Francisco were interrupted by demonstrations protesting China’s treatment of Tibet.
From April 2008 In Tibet, 30 people have been convicted of arson, robbery and attacks on government buildings linked to March riots. They are sentenced to imprisonment from three years to life imprisonment.
May 8, 2008 – The Olympic torch reaches the summit of Everest at 9:18 am (9:18 pm on May 7). Of his 31 climbers who carry the flames to Mount Everest, 22 are Tibetans. Five torchbearers, three Tibetans and two Han Chinese, carry the torch to the summit, while Tsering, a 23-year-old Tibetan woman, and her Wangmo carry the flames to the summit. At the same time, the main Olympic torch will be carried across China as part of the host nation’s relay.
From June 12, 2008 The Dalai Lama has urged his supporters not to cause trouble as the Olympic flame passes through Tibet. He also reiterates a general plea for his supporters not to target the torch or the Olympics.
From June 21, 2008 The Olympic torch passed through Lhasa without incident.
From June 25, 2008 Three months after closing Tibet to foreigners, the Chinese government has opened the area to tourists.
From January 2009 Tibetan parliamentarians have declared March 28 a holiday to mark the day China announced in 1959 that one million people were freed from serfdom, according to state media.
From March 2009 Near the first anniversary of the uprising and the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising, a monk set himself on fire in Sichuan province. Human rights groups said he was shot by police. State media claim the monk was rushed to hospital as soon as the flames were extinguished. Foreign tourists are prohibited from entering Tibet during the month of March.
From March 2010 The Dalai Lama’s successor, the Panchen Lama, is elected, approved, and manned by the government of China. The Panchen Lama elected by the Dahlia Lama was denounced as invalid by Beijing for not being elected according to tradition.
From February 2010 China has summoned US Ambassador John Huntsman to express its “strong dissatisfaction” with the meeting between the Dalai Lama and US President Barack Obama.
From October 2010 Tibetan students are protesting the Chinese government’s overhaul of the Tibetan school system, which limits the use of the Tibetan language in schools.
From March 10, 2011 The Dalai Lama has announced plans to retire as political leader of the Tibetan exile movement.
From March 16, 2011 Phuntsog set himself on fire in protest on the third anniversary of the 2008 demonstration.
From April 27, 2011 The Tibetan government in exile announced that Lobsang Sangay was elected Tibetan Prime Minister with 55% of the vote.
From May 29, 2011 The Dalai Lama approves an amendment to the exiled constitution, formally removing him of his political and administrative responsibilities. He is still a spiritual leader.
From August 15, 2011 Activist Monk Tshewang Norbu, 29, sets himself ablaze for freedom in Tibet.
From February 2012 The International Campaign for Tibet in Washington says that last year alone, 22 monks, nuns and other Tibetans set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule.
From March 26, 2012 Ahead of the visit to India by Chinese President Hu Jintao, Tibetan Jangpa Yeshi, 27, set the fire in New Delhi. He was hospitalized with burns to 90% of his body and later died on March 28.
From July 17, 2012 According to the Central Tibetan Administration, an 18-year-old Tibetan monk, Lobsang Lobzin, set himself on fire in a monastery in Sichuan province, China.
From August 13, 2012 Two Tibetans set themselves on fire in Sichuan province. The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) named these two Tibetans Lungtok, a rebellious Kirti monastery monk in southwestern China, and a commoner named Tashi.
From February 13, 2013 An unidentified Tibetan man set fire near a major Buddhist monument in Kathmandu, Nepal. His actions coincide with the Tibetan festival of Losar, or New Year.
February 2014 – According to Tibetan advocacy groups, there have been at least 125 self-immolations by Tibetans in the past five years.
From April 25, 2015 Magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits Nepal Killed over 8000 people. China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that he had 25 deaths in neighboring Tibet. A few weeks later, on May 12, another devastating earthquake hit Nepal, killing at least 94 people, including a Tibetan woman.
From March 23, 2018 US President Donald Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018. Approves continued and additional funding for the Tibetan community in Tibet and Tibetans in exile in India and Nepal.
From December 9, 2022 US Treasury announces sanctions He spoke out against two Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses in Tibet. On December 23, China announced sanctions against her two US citizens and their families in retaliation.
