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1947 Muslim League leaders announce in Hyderabad, India, that Urdu will become state language for the still to be formed Pakistan.
Google | 1947 Tamuddun Majlis (Cultural Society, an organization by scholars, writers and journalists oriented towards Islamic ideology) in a booklet titled 'State Language of Pakistan : Bengali or Urdu?' demands Bengali as one of the state language of Pakistan.
Google | 1947 Abul Kashem, the Secretary of the Tamuddun Majlis and a Professor of Physics in Dhaka University, was the first person to convene a literary meeting to discuss the State Language issue in the Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall of Dhaka University.
Google | 1947 East Pakistani students became agitated and held a meeting on the Dhaka University campus demanding that Bangla be made one of the state languages of Pakistan.
Google | 1947 A large number of Bengali students met on the University of Dhaka campus to formally demand that Bengali be made an official language. To promote their cause, Bengali students organised processions and rallies in Dhaka.
Google | 1948 Direndra Nath Dutta, a Bengali opposition member, moves a resolution in the first session of Pakistan's Constituent Assembly for recognizing Bengali as a state language along with Urdu and English.
Google | 1948 Students demonstrating for Bangla as state language is baton-charged and a large number of students are arrested in Dhaka.
Google | 1948 A general strike was observed in the towns of East Pakistan in protest against the omission of Bangla from the Constituent Assembly, the absence of Bangla letters in Pakistani coins and stamps, and the use of only Urdu in recruitment tests for the navy.
Google | 1948 Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the governor general of Pakistan, came to visit East Pakistan. He addressed two meetings in Dhaka, in both of which he ignored the popular demand for Bangla. He reiterated that Urdu would be the only state language of Pakistan.
Google | 1948 Before Jinnah left Dhaka, he delivered a speech on radio reasserting his 'Urdu-only' policy.
Google | 1948 Ghulam Azam, General Secretary of Dhaka University Students' Union, on behalf of Dhaka University Students' Union gave a memorandum to Pakistan's Prime Minister Liakat Ali Khan at Dhaka University asking that Bangla be the national language for Pakistan.
Google | 1948 Fazlur Rahman, the Bengali education minister of Pakistan, surprised everyone with his view that Bangla should be written in Arabic script at All-Pakistan conference for teachers.
Google | 1949 The East Bengal authorities constituted a Language Committee whose basic responsibilities would be a simplification, standardisation and translation of certain technical terms in Bangla language.
Google | 1950 The Dhaka University Language Action Committee was formed with Abdul Matin as its convener.
Google | 1950 East Bengal Language Committee, presided by Maulana Akram Khan, was formed by the East Bengal government to prepare a report on the language problem. The Committee completed its report.
Google | 1951 The Dacca (Dhaka) University State Language Movement Committee distributes a memorandum through all East Pakistan newspapers demanding Bangla as a national language along with Urdu.
Google | 1952 The Basic Principles Committee of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan announces its recommendation that Urdu should be the only state language.
Google | 1952 In a public meting at Paltan Maidan, Dhaka, Prime Minister Nazimuddin declares that Urdu alone will be the state language of Pakistan.
Google | 1952 Khwaja Nazimuddin, the Governor General of Pakistan, during his visit to East Pakistan declared in a convention at Paltan Maidan that only Urdu will be the state language of Pakistan.
Google | 1952 The students of Dhaka University in a protest meeting call the Prime Minister Nazimuddin and the Provincial Ministers as stooges of West Pakistan.
Google | 1952 In a secret meeting called by the Awami League (AL) and attended by a number of communist front as well as other organizations, it is agreed that the language agitation can't be successfully carried by the students alone. To mobilize full political and student support, it is decided that the leadership of the movement should be assumed by the AL under Bhashani.
Google | 1952 A broad-based All-Party Committee of Action (APCA) holds a protest meeting in Dhaka against the move to dominate the majority province of East Bengal linguistically and culturally. The provincial chief of Awami League, Maulana Bhashani addresses the meeting. On the suggestion of Abul Hashim it decides to hold a general strike on February 21, 1952 when the East Bengal Assembly is due to meet for its budget session.
Google | 1952 General strike called by students was fully observed by all educational institutions of Dacca (Dhaka) city; demanding Bangla as a national language, students brought out the largest rally to date in the streets of Dhaka.
Google | 1952 At 6 p.m. an order under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code prohibiting processions and meetings in Dhaka City is promulgated. This order generated tension and resentment among the students involved in language movement.
Google | 1952 Students decide to defy the official ban imposed by Nurul Amin's administration and processions are taken out to stage a demonstration in front of the Provincial Assembly. Police starts lobbing tear gas shells to the students. Students retaliate by batting bricks. The ensuing riot spreads to the nearby campuses of the Medical and Engineering colleges.
Google | 1952 The police opened fire on a mass-rally on language movement in front of the Medical College hostel killing five including three students - Mohammad Salauddin, Abdul Jabbar, Abul Barkat, Rafiquddin Ahmed and Abdus Salam.
Google | 1952 Inside East Bengal Assembly, six opposition members press for the adjournment of the House and demand an inquiry into the killing civilian on that day. The Chief Minister Nurul Amin urges the House to proceed with the planned agenda for the day. At this point all the opposition members of the Assembly walk out in protest.
Google | 1952 Thousands of men and women throng the university, Medical College and Engineering College areas to offer prayers for the victims of the police firing on February 21, 1952. After prayers when they go for a procession, the police open fire.
Google | 1952 Bowing to the public pressure, the Chief Minister Nurul Amin moves a motion recommending to the Constituent Assembly that Bengali should be one of the state languages of Pakistan. The motion is passed unanimously.
Google | 1952 A complete general strike is spontaneously observed, despite the resolution by the Provincial Assembly. The Pakistan government again responds with repressive measures.
Google | 1952 The students of Medical College erect overnight a Shahid Minar (Martyr's Memorial) at the place where Barkat was shot to commemorate the supreme sacrifices of the students and general population. Shahid Minar later became the rallying symbol for the Bengalis.
Google | 1952 A broad-based All-Party Committee of Action (APCA) decides to observe a general strike on February 25, 1952 to protest the government's actions.
Google | 1952 The Pakistan government gives full authority to the police and military to bring the situation in Dhaka back to normal within 48 hours. During these 48 hours the police arrested many students and political leaders associated with the language movement.
Google | 1952 It was declared that Dacca (Dhaka) University will be closed sin die due to student uproar in conjunction with the language movement.
Google | 1952 Shaheed Minar, initially known as 'Shahid Smrtistambha', was formally inaugurated by Abul Kalam Shamsuddin, the then editor of the daily Azad.
Google | 1952 Shorbodolio Kendrio Rashtrobhasha Kormi Porishod, or All-Party Central Language Action Committee, held a seminar at the Bar Association Hall. At the meeting delegates urged the government to release prisoners, relax restrictions on civil liberties and adopt Bangla as an official language.
Google | 1954 The Pakistan government recognizes Bangla as a state language.
Google | 1955 Bangla Academy founded as the immediate result of the 1952 Language Movement.
Google | 1956 It was proposed in the Pakistan National Assembly to give recognition to Bangla as a state language and inclusion of it in the constitution.
Google | 1956 A constitutional amendment was passed in the Pakistan National Assembly to include Bangla as a state language along with Urdu.
Google | 1956 The constitutional amendment making Bangla a state language along with Urdu goes in effect.
Google | 1998 Freedom fighter Rafiqul Islam wrote a letter of proposal to Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the UN emphasizing the necessity of protecting and nurturing mother languages of the world.
Google | 1999 The decision to observe 21st February as the International Mother Language Day was unanimously taken at the 30th General Conference of the UNESCO.
Google | 2000 International Mother Language Day, introduced by the UNESCO to commemorate the martyrs who sacrificed their lives on this date in Dhaka in 1952, began being observed throughout the world.
Google | 2010 International Mother Language Institute was inaugurated in Dhaka by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which aims to help preserve all languages around the world.
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