Timeline of related & unrelated events:

Non-exhaustive.
This list to be updated.

In Descending Order:

27 Feb. 2002: Godhra train burning
13 Dec. 2001: Our parliament attacked 
11 Dec. 2001: China entered WTO  
07 Oct. 2001: U.S invaded Afghanistan
20 June 2001: Musharraf coup against Nawaz 
01 June 2001: Hindu Rashtra Nepal Royal Family killed

24 Dec. 1999: IC814 Hijacked* 
03 May 1999: Kargil war started 
11 May 1998: India tested nukes under AB Vajpayee

1971: India liberated east pakistan to create Bangladesh

1947: Pakistan balkanized out of Bharat

1937: Myanmar  / Burma
1935: Sri Lanka
1907: Tibet 
1906: Bhutan
1905: Curzon, then Viceroy of India announced partition the state of Bengal
1904: Nepal
1904: Mackinder proposed Heartland theory - The Geographical Pivot of History

1876: Afghanistan
1867: Canada was found
1857: Sepoy revolt in India
1844: The first missionaries arrived Noakhali.
 

1615: 
The first English ambassador arrived to India to seek permission from Jahangir to start trade.

1605: 
The fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev Ji was imprisoned & tortured by Jahangir. He breathed his last in his captivity.

1584: 
The first European visitors to the mughal India came to akbar's court at Lahore. They were a group of portuguese jesuit missionaries.