Bangladesh: History of

Independence
Sasmul Alam
Lecturer
 Chronological history of liberation War,
1971
Date Occurrence Particulars
2nd March First national flag A. S. M. Abdur Rab (the then DUCSU VP) uphold
uphold the flag at Dhaka University “Bat tola” in front
of Arts building
B. The first designer: Shib Narayon Das
C. The present designer: Kamrul Hasan
3rd March First declaration of Read by Shahjahan Siraj
independence

Declaration of Father of Declared by A. S. M. Abdur Rahman from Paltan

the nation Moydan

7th March Bangabondhu’s Declaration of the liberation war from Rescorse

Historical Speech Moydan (Currently Sohrawardy Udyan)

23rd March Uphold of Bangladesh

flag on the day of
Pakistan
 Chronological history of liberation War,
1971 cont..
Date Occurrence Particulars
25th March Black night By the name “Operation Search Light”, Pakistani military
attacked the sleeping people with armed forces
First counter attack made by East Pakistan Rifles and
Rajarbag Police Lines
26th March Declaration of In favor of Banagabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman first
Independence declared by M. A. Hannan and then by Major Ziaur Rahman
through Betar
10th April Formation of Formed at Baidyanathtala (Boiddonathtola) and Bhoborpara,
Provisional is a town in the Meherpur District of Bangladesh
Government of Temporary cmp was at 8 No. Theatre Road, Kolkata
Bangladesh President: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
(Mujibnagar Acting President: Syed Nazrul Islam
Government) Prime Minister: Tajuddin Ahmad
Home, Food and Rehabitation Minister: A. H. M.
Kamruzzaman
Finance Minister: M. Monsur Ali
Bangladesh Forces, Commander-in-Chief: Muhammad Ataul
Ghani Osmani
 Chronological history of liberation War,
1971 cont..
Date Occurrence Particulars
17th April Oath of Read of independence declaration by Prof. Usuf Ali
Provisional
Government of
Bangladesh
18th April Uphold of
Bangladeshi flag
in Foreing
mission, Kolkata
1st August Concert for At Madison Square Garden of America, Gorge Harrison
Bangladesh and his friends arranged a concert for Bangladesh
Robi Shongkor participated by playing Setar
6th December First recognition Bhutan recognized first and on the same day, India gave
of Bagnaldesh recognition
 Chronological history of liberation War,
1971 cont..
Date Occurrence Particulars
7th December Bangladesh At the general assembly, USA declared closure of the war
Debate at and USSR resist it
United Jashore got enemy free first
Nations
14th Intellectual Intellectuals who were killed included Govinda Chandra Dev
December Massacre (Philosopher, Professor at DU), Munier Chowdhury
(Litterateur, dramatist, Professor at DU), Mufazzal Haider
Chaudhury (Litterateur, Professor at DU), Anwar Pasha
(Litterateur, Professor at DU), Mohammed Fazle Rabbee
(cardiologist), Alim Chowdhury (ophthalmologist),
Shahidullah Kaisar (journalist), Nizamuddin Ahmed
(Reporter), Selina Parvin (reporter), Altaf Mahmud (lyricist
and musician)
16th Victory of General Niazi of Pakistan surrendered with 91K military
December Bangladesh army at 4:31 pm to Jagajit Singh Arora of India (Mitra
Bahini) in the Rescorse Moydan