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| 1916 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali |  |
| Jinnah demands "home rule" for India, the status of a self-governing dominion in the Empire similar to Canada, NewZealand and Australia |
| Jinnah plays an important role in the founding of the All India Home Rule League |
| 1933 | Ali, Choudhary Rahmat | |
| The name Pakistan is proposed by Choudhary Rahmat Ali in his Pakistan Declaration |
| 1935 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| The British for the first time propose handing over substantial power to elected Indian provincial legislatures, with elections to be held in 1937, Jinnah returns to India and resumed leadership of the League |
| 1940 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Lahore A political statement adopted by the All India Muslim League during the three-day general session calls for greater Muslim autonomy in British India, largely interpreted as a demand for a separate Muslim state, Pakistan |
| Lahore At Lahore the League formally recommitts itself to creating an independent Muslim state called Pakistan, including Sindh, Punjab, the North West Frontier Province and Bengal, that would be "wholly autonomous and sovereign" |
| Lahore At the conference of Lahore Jinnah calls for a separate Pakistan & an independent India |
| 23rd Mar Lahore The Lahore Resolution is adopted, it's principles form the foundation for Pakistan's first constitution |
| 1941 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| During the mission of British minister Stafford Cripps , Jinnah demands parity between the number of Congress and League ministers, the League's exclusive right to appoint Muslims and a right for Muslim-majority provinces to secede |
| 1946 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| During elections for the Constituent Assembly of India, the Congress wins most of the elected seats and Hindu electorate seats, while the League wins control of a large majority of Muslim electorate seats |
| Jinnah enters the Indian government and is allowed to appoint an equal number of ministers despite being the minority party but coalition is unable to work resulting in potential chaos & civil war |
| The Congress agrees to the partition of Punjab and Bengal along religious lines in late 1946 |
| The League wins most Muslim seats in the elections, and Jinnah launches the Direct Action campaign of strikes and protests to achieve "Pakistan", which degenerated into communal violence across India |
| The new viceroy Lord Mountbatten and Indian civil servant VP Menon proposes a plan to create a Muslim dominion in West Punjab, East Bengal, Baluchistan and Sindh, Congress approves the plan |
| 16th Aug Jinnah issues a call for all Muslims to launch "Direct Action" to "achieve Pakistan", strikes and protests are planned, but violence breaks out all over India, especially in Calcutta and the district of Noakhali in Bengal |
| 1947 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Along with Liaquat Ali Khan and Abdur Rab Nishtar, Muhammad Ali Jinnah represents the League in the Partition Council to appropriately divide public assets between India and Pakistan |
| Pakistan is created & granted independence |
| The North-West Frontier Province votes to join Pakistan in a referendum |
| 30th Oct Lahore Jinnah asserts in a speech that the League had accepted partition because "the consequences of any other alternative would have been too disastrous to imagine"[ |
| 1947 | Khan, Liaquat Ali | |
| Along with Liaquat Ali Khan and Abdur Rab Nishtar, Muhammad Ali Jinnah represents the League in the Partition Council to appropriately divide public assets between India and Pakistan |
| Pakistan is created & granted independence |
| 1947 | Nishtar, Abdur Rab | |
| Along with Liaquat Ali Khan and Abdur Rab Nishtar, Muhammad Ali Jinnah represents the League in the Partition Council to appropriately divide public assets between India and Pakistan |
| 1970 | Khan, Agha Mohammad Yahya | |
| East Pakistan attempts to secede, civil war begins & Bangladesh declares itself independent |
| 1970 | Rahman, Mujibur | |
| In Eastern Pakistan, the Awami League, led by Mujibur Rahman, wins 160 out of 162 seats in the Parliament |
| The Awami League demands complete internal autonomy for East Pakistan |
| The Pakistani government resorts to violence to suppress the Awamis, and hundreds of thousands are slaughtered, the Awami leadership fled to India along with millions of refugees and declare the independent state of Bangladesh |
| 1971 | Khan, Yahya | |
| 26th Mar The Awami League declare the independence of Bangladesh |
| 26th Mar Troops from West Pakistan fight the East Pakistan separatists |
| 2nd April Pakistan protests against India's support for Bangladeshi independence |
| 6th Dec India recognizes the independence of Bangladesh |
| 17th Dec End of the Indo-Pakistan War, Bangladesh gains its independence |
| 1972 | Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali | |
| East Pakistan becomes the state of Bangledesh |
| 1976 | Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali | |
| Diplomatic ties are established between Pakistan and Bangladesh |
