The Kite Runner - Timeline

The Kite Runner timeline, italics refer to actual historical events

• 1915: Baba's grandfather married his 3rd wife and Baba's father was born.
• 1931: Picture of Baba's father with King Mohammed Nadir Shah. He reigned from 1929 to 1933.
• 1933: Baba is born
• King Nadir Shah is assassinated.
• Mohammed Sahir Shah takes throne.
• 1964: Amir's birth
• Sanuabar leaves
• 1973: King Mohammed Sahir Shah, away in Italy, is overthrown by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan, ending "the kings forty-year reign with a bloodless coup" (page 36).
• Daoud abolishes monarchy, establishes himself as President.
• 1974: Hassan's surgery
• 1975: Amir wins the kite contest.
• Hassan's rape
• 1976: Amir's 13th birthday party.
• Hassan and Ali leave
• 1979: Daoud is assassinated.
• 1980: U.S boycotts Olympic games in Moscow
• 1981: Russians invade.
• Baba and Amir leave Afghanistan.
• Amir and Baba are in Pakistan.
• 1982/3: Amir and Baba arrive in San Francisco
• 1983: Amir graduates from high school
• 1984: Amir and Baba begin selling at the flea market
• Amir meets Soraya
• Ali is killed by a landmine
• 1985/6: Amir and Soraya marry
• 1986: Rahim Khan goes to find Hassan
• Hassan returns to Baba's house in Afghanistan
• Baba dies
• 1988: Amir has his first novel accepted.
• 1989: Amir goes on book tour
• Amir and Soraya being trying to have a family
• Shorawi (Russians) withdraw from Afghanistan
• Fighting between factions
• Berlin Wall comes down
• Cold war ends
• Tiananmen Square
• 1990: Hassan's mother, Sanaubar, returns.
• Sohrab is born
• 1992-1996: Northern Alliance control of Kabul
• 1995: Sanaubar dies
• 1996: Taliban takes over
• 1998: Incident with Rahim Khan and Taliban at soccer game
• Taliban massacre of Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif
• 2000: Hassan and Farzana are killed.
• 2001: Amir gets a phone call from Rahim Khan asking him to come to Pakistan.
• Amir goes to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
• Amir returns home with Sohrab
• 2002: Amir and Sohrab fly the kite. Amir runs the kite for him.