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Event Event Type Source Source Year

1904
Younghusband victory over Tibetan army political Thomas Lowell 1950

near Dzong, treaty signed in September.

1906
Treaty between Great Britian and Tibet political Thomas Lowell 1950

1910
Dalai Lama flees Tibet as Chinese take the pol/rel Thomas Lowell 1950

region.

1910
Chinese army invasion of despatched by political Common News 1998

Viceroy of Szechuan Chao Erh-feng and

occupies Lhasa. Thirteenth Dalai Lama

seeks refuge in India and declares Tibet

1911
Tibet declared freedom from Manchus pol/rel Thomas Lowell 1950

when Sun Yat-sen forced them from the

Chinese republic.

1912
Chinese revolution overthrows Manchu political Common News 1998

dynasty and Tibetans drive Chinese forces

to the Mekong River.

1913
Dalai Lama returns to Lhasa religious Common News 1998

1914
Indo-Tibetan frontier, McMahon Line, political Common News 1998

negotiated directly by British and Tibetan

delegates

1918
Tibetans pust Chinese east of Yangtse political Common News 1998

1921
Mission of Sir Charles Bell to Lhasa political Common News 1998

establishes closer relations between British

and Tibetan governments

1925
Alexandra David-Neel is the first European political Thomas Lowell 1950

woman in Lhasa.

1937
Panchen Lama, second living god of Tibet, pol/rel Thomas Lowell 1950

died in exile in China.

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