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| 1984 | Anti Sikh Pogrom |  |
| 31st Oct Delhi Over the next four days Sikhs are massacred in retaliatory pogroms led by some Congress activists and sympathizers after the assassination of Indira Nehru Gandhi |
| 31st Oct Delhi The then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi allegedly makes a statement "When a big tree falls, the earth is bound to shake" on the Sikh carnage |
| 1984 | Assassination | |
| 31st Oct Delhi The then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi allegedly makes a statement "When a big tree falls, the earth is bound to shake" on the Sikh carnage |
| 1984 | Bhopal Disaster | |
| 31st Oct Bhopal A leak at the Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal causes 14,000 deaths |
| 1984 | Demonstrations | |
| Nov 1,000 are killed during anti-Sikh riots |
| 1984 | Disaster | |
| 3rd Dec Bhopal 2,000 are killed by a chemical spillage at a Union Carbide plant |
| 1984 | Election | |
| 29th Dec Elected Prime Minister of India in aandslide victory |
| 1984 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of India, after the death of his mother |
| 1984 | Rebellion | |
| Kashmir India rigs Kashmir elections and Kashmir separatists takes up arms |
| 1984 | Rule of Kashmir | |
| Kashmir India rigs Kashmir elections and Kashmir separatists takes up arms |
| 1987 | Colombo Peace Accord | |
| 29th July Colombo The Indo-SriLanka Peace Accord is an accord signed in Colombo between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and President J.R. Jayewardene |
| 29th July Colombo Under the terms of the agreement Colombo agrees to a devolution of power to the provinces the SriLankan troops were withdraw to their barracks in the north, the Tamil rebels were to disarm |
| 1987 | Independence | |
| India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in SriLanka's ethnic conflict |
| Under the terms of the agreement Colombo agrees to a devolution of power to the provinces the SriLankan troops were withdraw to their barracks in the north, the Tamil rebels were to disarm |
| 1987 | Peace | |
| Sends a peacekeeping force to SriLanka at its Governments request |
| Colombo Signs the Tamil Colombo Peace Accord with SriLanka |
| 1987 | Poomalai | |
| 4th June Jaffna Operation Poomalai or Eagle Mission 4 is a mission undertaken by the Indian Air Force to airdrop supplies over the besieged town of Jaffna in SriLanka in support of Tamil Tigers during the SriLankan Civil War |
| 1987 | Rebellion | |
| India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in SriLanka's ethnic conflict |
| 1987 | Rule of Punjab | |
| 11th May Punjab India imposes direct rule on the Punjab because of the threat of Sikh extremists |
| 1987 | Siege of Jaffna | |
| 4th June Jaffna Operation Poomalai or Eagle Mission 4 is a mission undertaken by the Indian Air Force to airdrop supplies over the besieged town of Jaffna in SriLanka in support of Tamil Tigers during the SriLankan Civil War |
| 1987 | Tamil Colombo Peace Accord | |
| Colombo Signs the Tamil Colombo Peace Accord with SriLanka |
| 1988 | Reform | |
| The voting age is dropped from 21 to 18 |
| 1989 | Bofors Affair | |
| Allegations of corruption, known as the Bofors affair, causes Rajiv Gandhi's Congress to lose the elections |
| Rajiv Gandhi and several others are accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer |
| The case comes to light during Vishwanath Pratap Singh's tenure as Defence Minister, and is fueled by very sharp investigative journalism by Chitra Subramaniam of the newspapers The Hindu and Indian Express |
| The name of the middleman associated with the scandal is Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian businessman who represented the petrochemicals firm Snamprogetti, Quattrocchi is close to the family of Prime Minister Gandhi |
| 1989 | Diplomacy | |
| Rajiv Gandhi is the first Indian prime minister to visit Pakistan |
| 1989 | Election | |
| Allegations of corruption, known as the Bofors affair, causes Rajiv Gandhi's Congress to lose the elections |
| Rajiv Gandhi's Congress is defeated in the 9th general elections |
| 1991 | Assassination | |
| 21st May Killed in a bomb attack during an election campaign by a Tamil suicide bomber |
| 1991 | Death | |
| 21st May Death of Rajiv Gandhi, assassinated |
| 1991 | Election | |
| 21st May Killed in a bomb attack during an election campaign by a Tamil suicide bomber |
| 1991 | Invasion of Punjab | |
| Punjab The Indian army attacks Sikh strongholds in Punjab killing more than 3,300 civilians |
| 1991 | Rule of Punjab | |
| Punjab The Indian army attacks Sikh strongholds in Punjab killing more than 3,300 civilians |
