Thimphu

City · c. 1949 CE · in South Asia

Capital of Kingdom of Bhutan (1949–today).

East Berlin (1949–1990 CE): Capital of German Democratic Republic (1949–1990).
Bonn (c. 1950 CE): Capital of Federal Republic of Germany (1950–1990), Federated Republic of Germany (1991–1999).
Amman (c. 1947 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Jordan (1947–today).
Benghazi (c. 1953 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Libya (1953–1968).
Khartoum (c. 1956 CE): Capital of Republic of Sudan (1956–today).
Vichy (c. 1940 CE): Capital of Vichy France (1940–1943).
Accra (c. 1958 CE): Capital of Ghana (1958–today).
Salamanca (c. 1939 CE): Capital of Francoist Spain (1939–1939).
Rawalpindi (c. 1959 CE): Capital of Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1959–1967).
Brasília (1960 CE): Planned capital of Brazil built in the interior, with a plan by Lúcio Costa and modernist buildings by Oscar Niemeyer; inaugurated in 1960.

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British Raj (1858–1947 CE): After the 1857 rebellion the British Crown took direct rule of India from the East India Company, governing until independence in 1947.
Independence of India (1947 CE): India became independent on 15 August 1947, with Jawaharlal Nehru as its first prime minister.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 CE – 1941 CE): Bengali poet, writer and composer, in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 CE – 1964 CE): Leader in the independence movement and first prime minister of India, serving from 1947 until his death.
Jallianwala Bagh massacre (1919 CE): British troops under Reginald Dyer fired on an unarmed crowd in Amritsar, killing hundreds, a turning point in the independence movement.
Constitution of India (1950 CE): India's constitution, drafted by a committee chaired by B. R. Ambedkar, came into force on 26 January 1950, making India a republic.
First ascent of Mount Everest (1953 CE): Members of the British expedition, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, reached the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953, the first confirmed ascent.
1970 Bhola cyclone (1970 CE): Tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan in November 1970, killing an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people, one of the deadliest on record.