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Nadir Shah, Muhammad (orig. Muhammad Nadir Khan)
1914 - Born on the 16th of October in Southern Afghanistan
1933 -On the 8th of November he was proclaimed King of Afghanistan after his father Mohammed Nadir
Shah (King Of Afghanistan) was assassinated.
1964 - He promulgated a new constitution in Afghanistan, instituted programs of political and
economic modernization.
1973 - His cousin and former Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud Khan staged a coup d'etat , and established
a republican government while Mohammed Zahir Shah was in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
- He was exiled in Italy for twenty-nine years after the coup d'etat.
2002 - He returned to Afghanistan while the said country was under American occupation.
2007 - On 2nd of January, he was reportedly seriously ill and bedridden.
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