Timeline of a troubled nation
1885: Burma (as it was then known) becomes a province of British India.
1941-45: Japan occupies Burma during World War II.
1948: Burma attains full independence from the British on January 4.
1962: General Ne Win seizes power in a coup.
1988: Nationalist hero Aung San’s daughter Aung San Suu Kyi emerges as a key opposition leader.
1989: The country’s name is changed to Myanmar.
1990: Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy wins a landslide victory in elections.
1991: Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize while under house arrest.
1992: Than Shwe becomes the new leader.
2007: Major protests dubbed the “Saffron revolution” break out.
2008: Vast areas of the Irrawaddy Delta are devastated by Cyclone Nargis, which leaves some 138,000 people dead.
2010: Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
2011: The junta cedes power to a quasi-civilian government.
2015: In November, Suu Kyi’s NLD wins a landslide victory in the first free and fair elections in decades.
2016: A lengthy power transition follows.
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