| 02/08/97 | Nine UN workers, Russian journalists and Tajikistan's security minister are kidnapped by warlord Bakhram Sadirov. They are later released with the help of Ahmad Shah Massoud. |
| 02/12/90 | Twenty-five persons died as Interior Ministry troops fired on demonstrators massed outside the Tajikistan Communist Party headquarters in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. February 12 now is celebrated as "Memory Day," and an obelisk was unveiled on February 12, 1992, to commemorate the persons who died in February, 1990. |
| 03/08/97 | Rebels and government sign a pact to create a peace agreement. |
| 04/01/97 | President Emomali Rakhmanov survived a grenade attack in Khudjand by a 21-year-old Tajik. |
| 09/07/92 | President Rakhmon Nabiyev resigned after Islamic rebels forcefully took control of the government. The Islamic Party was overturned in a bloody coup late in October 1992. September 10 is recognized as the date of Tajikistan's declaration of independence. Islamic rebels have continued fighting since early September 1992. |
| 09/10/92 | Declaration of Independence. |
| 12/21/91 | Tajikistan joined with 10 other former republics of the Soviet Union (which ceased to exist on December 25, 1991) in establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
| 12/25/91 | President Bush formally recognized Tajikistan and 11 other former Soviet republics. On that occasion, he also stated that formal diplomatic relations would be established with six of the republics as soon as possible and that diplomatic relations would be established with the other six (Tajikistan was one of them) when they met certain political conditions. |
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