14th Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is enthroned as the leader of Tibet at the age of fifteen.

Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.

The 1959 Tibetan Uprising began when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the Communist Party of China since the Seventeen Point Agreement in 1951. Although the 14th Dalai Lama's flight occurred in 1959, armed conflict between Tibetan rebels and the Chinese army started in 1956 in the Kham and Amdo regions, which had been subjected to socialist reform. The guerrilla warfare later spread to other areas of Tibet and lasted through 1962. The anniversary of the uprising is observed by some Tibetan exiles as the Tibetan Uprising Day. The anniversary of its end is celebrated in Tibet as Serfs Emancipation Day.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.

The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.

14th Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.