— about 54 years ago
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1975-09-19 |
Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor |
1975-12-07 |
Indonesian army occupies East Timor |
1976-06-02 |
East Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia |
1976-07-17 |
Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor |
1991-11-12 |
Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor. |
1999-09-12 |
Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor. |
2001-07-05 |
Australia and East Timor sign an agreement to share royalties from oil and natural gas production in the Timor Sea, which separates the two countries |
2002-05-20 |
The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976). |
2002-09-27 |
Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations. |
2008-02-11 |
In East Timor, assassination attempts were made on Xanana Gusmao and Jose Ramos-Horta. Both failed. |
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1946-06-20 |
Xanana Gusmão, President of East Timor |
1948-02-03 |
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician, Nobel Peace laureate |
1948-02-03 |
C.F. Ximenes Belo, Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor |
1949-12-26 |
José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate |
