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Historical Timeline for Maldives - A chronology of key events
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Interesting Facts about Maldives[edit | edit source]

  • Country : MALDIVES 🇲🇻
  • Capital: Male
  • Continent: Asia
  • Currency: Rufiyaa
  • Official Language: Divehi

1. There are 1,200 small islands in the Maldives.

2. Maldives is the flattest country on earth, with an average altitude of 1.5 m from sea level.

3. The world’s biggest fish- The whale Shark, can be spotted in the Maldives all year round.

4. Maldivian beaches are considered a paradise on earth because it has white sand which is of coralline origins.

5. The island nation does not have Saturday and Sunday as the weekend but instead has Friday and Saturday.

6. Maldives is considered to be one of the safest tourist destinations in the world.

7. In 2009, World's first underwater Cabinet meeting was organized by the president of Maldives.

8. The island, being close to the equator, receives sunlight almost at an angle of 90 degrees.

9. The Conrad Maldives Rangali Island has opened the world's first-ever underwater hotel residence. The two-story villa is set more than 16 feet below the Indian Ocean.

10. "Boduberu" which means Big Drums, made up of coconut wood are the heart and soul of traditional Maldivian music.

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Maldives Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
2000 BC AD traces of a civilization of Aryan origin coming from the north-west of India, close to that of the Indus valley.
947 BC AD first mention of the Maldives in a travelogue.
500 BC AD settlement of the islands by Buddhists from Sri Lanka and Dravidians from southern India.
150 apr. AD Ptolemy mentions the Maldives.
362 presence of Maldivian ambassadors to the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate.
1153 conversion of the country to Islam.
1517 commercial installation of the Portuguese in Malé.
1558-1573 Portuguese military occupation and Maldivian resistance, leading to the liberation of the country by Thakurufaanu, who became national hero and sultan.
1752-1760 presence of a French garrison.
1645-1796 Dutch protectorate.
1796 start of the British protectorate.
December 16, 1887 formalization of the English protectorate.
1932 first Constitution, the sultanate becomes a constitutional monarchy, eligible.
January 1, 1953 abolition of the sultanate. Adoption of a second Constitution and election of the first President of the Republic.
1954 reestablishment of the sultanate.
1965 proclamation of the independence of the Maldives on July 26, 1965. Leaving the Commonwealth and joining the UN on September 21.
1968 adoption of the third Constitution by referendum and election of Ibrahim Nasir as president.
1978 flight of President Ibrahim Nasir with the State fund. Election of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as President.
1980 first coup attempt, fomented by former President Nasir against President Gayoom.
1982 second entry of the Maldives into the Commonwealth.
1983 re-election of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as president.
1988 re-election of Gayoom. Second coup attempt led by mercenaries in the pay of Maldivian businessmen.
1993 re-election of Gayoom.
1998 re-election of Gayoom (90.8% of the votes). That same year, during a qualifying match for the 1998 World Cup, the Maldives team suffered what was then the biggest defeat in football history: a 17-0 against the Iranians!
2003 popular uprising in Malé (September 20). Sixth re-election of Gayoom (October 17).
2004 on December 26, the tsunami hit the coast of the Maldives.
2008 Mohamed Nasheed is elected President of the Republic. That same year, the Maldives won the South Asian Football Cup for the first time.
2012 on February 7, following an army mutiny, Vice-President Mohammed Waheed Hassan succeeds Mohamed Nasheed and becomes the 5th President of the Republic of Maldives.
2013 on March 5, former president Mohamed Nasheed is arrested because he did not appear at a hearing for a case where he is accused of kidnapping a judge in 2012, in the last weeks of his presidency.
2013 on November 16, Yameen Abdul Gayyoom, half-brother of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, becomes president against Mohamed Nasheed.
2015 on February 22, former president Mohamed Nasheed was arrested for "terrorism" and then sentenced to 13 years in prison.
2016 Mohamed Nasheed is released from prison to travel to Great Britain for health reasons. He took the opportunity to ask for and obtain asylum.
2016 The Maldives leave the Commonwealth for human rights violations and suspicion of money laundering.
2017 Yameen Rasheed, a blogger who derided Maldivian politicians and radical Islamists, was found stabbed in his apartment in April.

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