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| 1989 | Nobel Prize |  |
| Religious & political leader of the Tibetan people, 14th Dalai Lama
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| 2008 | Demonstrations | |
| Mar The Dalai Lama claimes that he supports the Beijing Olympics, saying that it is "deserving for the Chinese people to host the Olympic Games" but his envoy calls for the Chinese government to put an end to the military crackdown
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| Mar Tibet asks China to drop Tibet from the Olympic torch route
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| 10th Mar The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also known as the 314 Riots in China, begin with demonstrations on March 10, 2008 (Tibetan Uprising Day), the 49th anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising against Beijing's rule
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| 14th Mar Lhasa According to a Tibetan who fled Tibet after the demonstrations in Lhasa, knife-wielding Chinese troops attacked Tibetan demonstrators on March 14, and several demonstrators died from gunshot and knife wounds
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| 14th Mar Lhasa Tibetan rioters appear to be targeting shops and vehicles owned by Han Chinese, the predominant ethnic group in China, and Hui, who are a Muslim minority
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| 15th Mar Gansu Tibetan riots spread outside of the Tibet Autonomous Region for the first time, demonstrations by ethnic Tibetans and monks take place in the northwest province of Gansu
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| 16th Mar Beijing According to Times Online, in the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, around 100 ethnic Tibetan students organise a sit-in protest in solidarity with the protesters in Tibet
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| 16th Mar Ngawa In Sichuan province, in an area incorporating the traditional Tibetan areas Kham and Amdo, Tibetan monks and police clash in Ngawa county after the monks staged a protest, killing at least one policeman, and setting fire to three or four polic
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| 10th May Wen Jiabao accuses Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama, of masterminding the violence, while the Dalai Lama denies the accusation and says the uprisings are caused by wide discontent in Tibet
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| 2008 | Diplomacy | |
| Mar Tibet asks China to drop Tibet from the Olympic torch route
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| 2008 | Rule of Tibet | |
| 10th Mar The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also known as the 314 Riots in China, begin with demonstrations on March 10, 2008 (Tibetan Uprising Day), the 49th anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising against Beijing's rule
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| 2008 | Tibetan Uprising Day | |
| 10th Mar The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also known as the 314 Riots in China, begin with demonstrations on March 10, 2008 (Tibetan Uprising Day), the 49th anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising against Beijing's rule
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