Timeline: Nepal
1768 - Gurkha ruler Prithvi Narayan Shah conquers Kathmandu and lays foundations for unified kingdom.
1923 - Treaty with Britain affirms Nepal's sovereignty.
1953 29 May - New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepal's Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1991 - Nepali Congress Party wins first democratic elections. Girija Prasad Koirala becomes prime minister.
2001 1 June - King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and other
close relatives killed in shooting spree by drunken Crown Prince
Dipendra, who then shoots himself.
2004 April - Nepal joins the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
2007 December - Parliament approves abolition of monarchy as part of peace deal with Maoists, who agree to re-join government.
2008 May - Nepal becomes a republic.
2008 July - Two months after the departure of King Gyanendra, Ram Baran Yadav becomes Nepal's first president.
King Mahendra's 1962 constitution cemented royal rule
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