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Mariam is born
*Not the exact date
-Born to Jalil and Nana -
King Zahir Shah is overthrown
king -Mariam is 14 at this time
-Overthrown by Daoud Khan, his cousin, who was prime minister in Kabul
-Kabul is the main city mentioned in ATSS
-Mariam learns this when her dad comes to the Kolba to give her the necklace -
Mariam turns 15
-For her brithday, she asks Jalil to see a movie at his movie theater but Jalil doesn't follow through
-Ends up going to Jalil's house and is not let in -
One week later
-Mariam moves in with Jalil after her mother commits suicide
-Is not accepted by Jalil's other wives -
Mariam is married off to Rasheed
-Move to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan -
Ramadan begins
-Rasheed is constantly angry because of the fasting -
Akbar Khyber is murdered
-Mariam is 19
-A man named Mir Akbar Khyber, a prominent communist is found murdered
-The murder is blamed on Daoud Khan's government
-Two days later there is a large demonstration in Kabul -
Airforce Colonel Abdul Qader makes an announcement
-Rebel forces seized the airport and key intersections in Kabul
-Announced on the radio
-Mariam hears this on the radio and does not understand what is happening
-This event is seen as a new Afghanistan being born -
Tariq steps on land mine
-Loses one of his legs
-Is 5 years old -
Babi takes Laila and Tariq to the Buddha statues
-Laila, Babi, and Tariq go to see the giant Buddha statues, one of the greatest historical artifacts in Afghanistan. -
Soviets removed from Afghanistan
-Occured the year Laila turned 14
-Soviet Union collapsed and left Afghanistan
-Mami rose from her bed for the first time in 5 years since Laila's brothers died
-Mami no longer wore black, the war was over -
More fighting in West Kabul
-Babi tries to convince Mami to leave Kabul
-Bodies found tied to trees and sometimes burned
-Some bodies shot in the head and eyes gouged out
-Laila's family is packing to leave but their house gets bombed
-Laila's parents die -
Rasheed and Mariam take in Laila
-Rasheed and Mariam find Laila nearly unconscious in the rubble and take her to their home
-Laila is told Tariq was killed
-Rasheed soon asks to marry her and Laila quickly accepts -
Laila feels the baby kick for the first time
-Rasheed takes Laila to his shop
-Laila feels the baby kick -
Laila gives birth
-Laila has a baby girl and Rasheed thinks it is his
-Name her Aziza
-The baby actually belongs to Tariq -
Mariam hears about the Taliban
-Rasheed brings home news that the Taliban had overthrown warlords in Kandahar and taken the city
-The Taliban had been working their way into Kabul for two years before this
-Rasheed believes the Taliban are pure and incorruptible and that they will bring peace and order -
Taliban takes Kabul
-Laila and Mariam go to welcome them with Rasheed -
Laila is in labor
-Taliban changed the hospital laws to all female
-There is only one hospital available and it is in poor conditions
-Laila has a c-section at the hospital without anesthetic
-Delivers Rasheed's first boy -
Resheed's store burns
-Resheed's shoe business burns
-Marks a time in the family's lives filled with starvation and struggle -
Taliban plants TNT in Buddhas in Bamiyan
-the Taliban planted TNT in giant buddhas in Bamiyan because they were objects idolatry and sin
-Governments around the world pleaded the Taliban
-People are figuring out that the Taliban is not a good thing like they had hoped. -
Aziza in the orphannage
-Laila is no longer allowed to see Aziza a the orghannage because the Taliban banned women from being in public without men.
-Rasheed refuses to visit Aziza after learning that she is not his daughter. -
Marium is Killed
Ghazi stadium-As punishment for killing her husband, Rasheed, she is executed at a stadium in Ghazi as entertainment for others. -
World Trade Center is bombed
9/11 video-Laila and Tariq watched it happen on hotel television
-Osama Bin Laden was a lead terrorist in this attack
-Americans begin to bomb Afghanistan -
Taliban collapses
collapse-Mullah Omar surrenders Kandahar
-The surrender of this center signifies the collapse of the Taliban
