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==Maldives Timeline==
==Maldives Timeline==


{| class="wikitable"
|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.
|}


==Source==
==Source==
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