User:Kautilya3/Ladakh timeline

Timeline

 * Gulab Singh
 * 1834: Zorawar Singh's first invasion of Ladakh?
 * 1835: Zorawar Singh annexes Baltistan?
 * 1841-42: Dogra-Tibetan War
 * 1846: Princely state of Jammu and Kashmir created
 * 1846: First Boundary Commission, with Agnew and Cunningham.
 * 1847: Second Boundary Commmission, with Cunningham, Strachey and Thomson.
 * 1847: Basti Ram appointed governor of Ladakh.
 * 1855: Kashmir Survey begins.
 * Ranbir Singh
 * 1857: Ranbir Singh succeeds Gulab Singh
 * 1857: Adolphe Schlagintweit crosses Aksai Chin.
 * 1861: Mehta Basti Ram succeeded by Mehta Mangal.
 * 1862: Frederic Drew enters Maharaja's service as geographer
 * 1863: Khotan overthrows the Chinese authority? Haji Habibullah of Khotan threatened by Yakub Beg, wanted British & Kashmiri support?
 * 1864: Yakub Beg defeats Chinese, who abandon Turkestan
 * 1864: Kashmir's Shahidulla chauki ("stone fort and several huts")
 * 1865: Johnson's survey of Aksai Chin and trip to Ilchi
 * 1867: Kashmir abandons the chauki
 * 1867: Cayley stationed in Leh as a British trade officer?
 * 1868: The Kashmir Atlas published.
 * 1870: Informal Forsyth Mission to Yarkand.
 * 1870: Trade agreement with Kashmir. British Joint Trade Commissioner in Leh. 'Treaty Road' to Yarkand. Treaty for the development and security of trade with Turkestan. (2 May)
 * 1870-71: Frederic Drew serves as governor of Ladakh.
 * 1871: Johnson becomes the Wazir of Ladakh, serves till 1881.
 * 1872: Drew leaves the Maharaja's service
 * 1873: Forsyth Mission to Yarkand.
 * 1873: Anglo-Russian agreement?
 * 1875: Frederic Drew's The Jammoo Kashmir Territories.
 * 1877: Gilgit Agency (OSD) under Biddulph
 * 1877: Chinese reassert control over Tarim Basin
 * 1881: Johnson dies
 * 1884: Chinese Turkestan renamed 'Sinkiang' (Xinjiang).
 * Pratap Singh
 * 1885: Ranbir Singh succeeded by Pratap Singh. OSD replaced by British Resident.
 * 1889: Gilgit Agency reestablished owing to "persistent Russian aggression".
 * 1889: Younghusband expedition to Yarkand and Hunza.
 * 1890: China being induced to take over the region north of Karakoram.
 * 1890: Macartney (Younghusband's interpreter) remains as unofficial consul to Kashgar. Not accredited for 19 years, remaining the "Special Assistant to the Resident of Kashmir". Serves till 1918.
 * 1890: China is claimed to have occupied Shahidulla.
 * 1890-91: Kirghiz repair the fort at Shahidulla with British finance.
 * 1891: Hunza brought under British Empire.
 * 1890-92: Chinese build a fort at Suget Pass and also claim rights up to the Karakoram Pass
 * 1892: Maharaja requests permission to renew his post, but is denied.
 * 1894: British object to unilateral border definition by Chinese Sinkiang.
 * 1895/1896: Macartney presents to Taotai Keith Johnston's Atlas of India. Taotai complains about Aksai Chin. Macartney allegedly proposed a boundary along the Lokzhung range.
 * 1899: Macartney-MacDonald Line proposed to China. The provincial government in Sinkiang finds it fair.
 * 1904: Younghusband Expedition to Lhasa.
 * 1906: Younghusband apointed Resident in Kashmir.
 * 1911: Chinese Revolution.
 * 1911: The Viceroy questions the Macartney-MacDonald Line.