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| 1876 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali |  |
| 25th Dec Brth of Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| 1896 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Jinnah joins the Indian National Congress |
| 1906 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Dhaka The All India Muslim League (AIML) is formed by Muslims who were suspicious of the mainstream, secular but Hindu-majority Indian National Congress |
| 1906 | Khan, Hakim Ajmal |  |
| 30th Dec Shahbagh The resolution to found the All Muslim League is moved by Nawab Salimullah which & seconded by Hakim Ajmal Khan |
| 1906 | Khan, Nawab Salimullah | |
| 30th Dec Shahbagh The founding meeting of the party during the annual All India Muhammadan Educational Conference in Shahbagh, Dhaka hosted by Nawab Salimullah Khan |
| 30th Dec Shahbagh The resolution to found the All Muslim League is moved by Nawab Salimullah which & seconded by Hakim Ajmal Khan |
| 1906 | Viqar-ul-Mulk, Nawab | |
| 30th Dec Shahbagh The founding meeting of the party during the annual All India Muhammadan Educational Conference in Shahbagh, Dhaka presided over by Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk |
| 1913 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Joins the All India Muslim League |
| 1916 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Appointed President of the Muslim League |
| Lucknow Architect of the Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the League, bringing them together on most issues regarding self-government and presenting a united front to the British |
| 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 |
| 1920 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Jinnah breaks with the Congress iwhen the Congress leader, Mohandas Gandhi, launched a Non-Cooperation Movement against the British, which Jinnah disapproved of |
| Jinnah has little liking for either the Hindu asceticism of Gandhi or the secular socialism of the other major Congress leader, Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Jinnah resigns from the Congress , warning that Gandhi's method of mass struggle would lead to divisions between Hindus and Muslims and within the two communities |
| 1930 | Iqbal, Muhammad | |
| The leadership of the League is taken over Muhammad Iqbal, who puts forward the demand for a separate Muslim state in India, the "Two-Nation Theory" |
| 1931 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| London Beleives Gandhi is working for Hindu objectives |
| 1933 | Ali, Choudhary Rahmat | |
| The name Pakistan is proposed by Choudhary Rahmat Ali in his Pakistan Declaration |
| 1934 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Heads a reformed Muslim League & favours a separate Muslim state |
| Several Muslim leaders persuade Jinnah to return to India in 1934 and re-organise the League |
| Lahore Tempered by the failure to build coalitions with the Congress , Jinnah embraces the goal of creating a separate state for Muslims as in the Lahore Resolution |
| 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 |
| Lahore Pledges support for the British war effort |
| Lahore The "Pakistan resolution" is adopted as the main goal of the party, the resolution is rejected outright by the Congress |
| 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 |
| Jinnah founds Dawn, a major newspaper that helped him propagate the League's point of views |
| 1943 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Jinnah is stabbed and wounded by a member of the extremist Khaksars in an attempted assassination |
| 1946 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| Calcutta After the riots the British authorites favour Gandhi & Nehro over Jinnah |
| 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 |
| Calcutta Jinnah's policy of "direct action" precipitates riots, 4,000 are killed |
| The Congress agrees to the partition of Punjab and Bengal along religious lines in late 1946 |
| the League wins 425 out of 496 seats reserved for Muslims (and about 89.2% of Muslim votes) on a policy of creating an independent state of Pakistan, and with an implied threat of secession if this was not granted |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1948 | Jinnah, Mohammed Ali | |
| 11th Sep Ziarat Spends many months at his official retreat in Ziarat, but dies from a combination of tuberculosis and lung cancer |
| 1949 | Sharif, Nawaz | |
| Lahore Appointed Party Leader of the Pakistan Muslim League |
| 1958 | Khan, Muhammad Ayub | |
| The Army seizes power and the martial law regime of Muhammad Ayub Khan bans all political parties, this was the end of the old Muslim League |
| 1988 | Sharif, Nawaz | |
| After the death of Pakistan's dictator, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, a new Muslim League was formed under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, but it had no connection with the original Muslim League |
| 1993 | Sharif, Nawaz | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Pakistan Muslim League |
| 1996 | Sharif, Nawaz | |
| Nawaz Sharif holds the record in Pakistani politics for securing the heaviest mandate in a general election in Pakistan |
| Sharif returns to power in February 1997 with such a huge majority that the result is immediately questioned by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, Sharif won by obtaining 90 percent of the national votes cast |
| 2007 | Sharif, Nawaz | |
| 28th Dec Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the rival opposition party Pakistan Muslim League, states that "This is a tragedy for her party, and a tragedy for our party and the entire nation" |
