20 August |
1944 | Born in Bombay |
| 1960 | Passed Senior Cambridge Examination from Doon School. Debra Dun. |
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8 September |
1960 | Father Feroze Gandhi died |
| 1963 | Joined Trinity College Cambridge to study Mechanical Engineering |
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27 May |
1964 | Grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Nlinister of India died |
| 1965 | Met Sonia Maino a student at Language Teaching School, Cambridge. |
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28 February |
1968 | Married Sonia Maino. |
May |
1968 | Joined Indian Airlines as a Pilot |
19 June |
1970 | Son Rahul was born |
12 January |
1972 | Daughter Priyanka was born |
23 June |
1980 | Brother Sanjay Gandhi died |
11 May |
1981 | Joined politics- enrolled himself as a primary member of the Congress Party |
15 June |
1981 | Elected from Amethi Lok Sabha Constituency. |
2 February |
1983 | Appointed as Congress General Secretary. |
31 October |
1984 | Mother, Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India is assassinated. Was sworn in as Prime Minister. |
November |
1984 | Congress Party returned to power with a massive mandate |
31 December |
1984 | Was sworn in as Prime Minister for the second time. |
4 March |
1985 | Adjudged the Man of the Year by the National Integration Assembly. |
4 August |
1986 | Participated in Commonwealth Summit, London. |
| 8 August |
1986 | Participated In Six Nation Summit on Peace and Disarmament. Mexico |
1 September |
1986 | Participated in English Non-aligned Summit, Harare. |
10 September |
1986 | Received Nicaragua's highest award "Augusto Caeser Sandina Order" |
November |
1989 | Elected as Leader of Opposition. |
21 May |
1991 | Killed in a bomb explosion while electioneering at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. |
24 May |
1991 | Last Journey - mortal remains consigned to flames. |
17 June |
1991 | Bharat Ratna, the highest honor of the country conferred posthumously. |
"Rajiv Gandhi was a visionary who sought to modernise India and lead it into the 21st century. Destiny denied him the opportunity to do still more for India than he achieved in the five short years he was at helm of its affairs. By upholding the principles that were dear to him and concentrating our work in the area he deemed to be of the utmost importance, we seek to keep alive the legacy he bequeathed us"
-Sonia Gandhi