Rahman Khan

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    Campaigns to subdue the Northern territories

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    Campaigns against the Ghilzai

  • British forces withdraw from Kandahar

  • Muhammad Ayub Khan advances on Kandahar; defeated by Abdur Rahman Khan

  • Forces of Abdur Rahman Khan occupy Herat

  • British (Indian) Agent arrives in Kabul

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    Campaigns against the Shinwari

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    Campaigns against the Mangal-Zurmat (Pushtun tribes)

  • Russians annex Merv. British and Russian governments appoint Commissioners to delineate the boundary of north-western Afghanistan

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    Campaign in Laghman

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    Afghan Boundary Commission delineates the north-western frontier of the country - the Ridgeway Line

  • Abdur Rahman Khan visits the Viceroy of India at Rawalpindi. The Russians defeat an Afghan force and occupy the oasis of Panjdeh

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    Campaigns against the Ghilzai

  • Campaign to put down Muhammad 'Ishaq Khan

  • Badakhshan campaign

  • Campaign against the Khan of Asmar

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    Campaigns against Pushtun tribes in Kunar

  • Russian surveyors move into the Pamirs in the north east of Afghanistan. British and Russians agree that the Oxus should be the international boundary, as a result of which several areas change rulers; Wakhan added to the Amir's possessions

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    Hazarajat campaign

  • Government of India propose to send a mission to the Amir under Lord Roberts (of Kandahar) Abdur Rahman Khan attempts to establish direct relations with British Government

  • Mission of Sir H.M. to Kabul in agreement of the settlement of the boundary in the Pamirs

  • G.N. (later Lord) Curzon visits Abdur Rahman Khan in Kabul

  • Slavery in Afghanistan abolished. Abdur Rahman Khan deputes his son Shahzada Nasrullah Khan to London in attempt to establish direct diplomatic relations. British Agent and son murdered by an Agency chuprassi

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    Campaign against Kafiristan

    Forcible conversion of pagan inhabitants

  • Risings of tribes along the North West Frontier against the Government of India

  • Death of Abdur Rahman Khan: peaceful succession of his son Habibullah

  • Mission to Kabul of Sir Louis Dane

  • Treaty agreed, based on Abdur Rahman Khan's agreement with the Government of India. Revision of the Goldsmid Award in Seistan

  • Habibullah visits India.

    Anglo-Russian convention over spheres of influence in Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet virtually ignores local rulers

  • Mahmud Tarzi b rings out the Afghan modernist newspaper Seraj-al-Akhbar

  • Outbreak of First World War

    Afghanistan remains neutral

  • Turco-German mission (the Von Hentig-Niedermeyer mission) to Kabul

  • End of World War I

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    Habibullah assassinated by person or persons unknown