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| 1962 |
| | | General Ne Win seizes power in a coup in Burma and establishes a single-party isolationist dictatorship | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A peaceful demonstration at Rangoon university is dispersed by gunfire, resulting in the death of dozens of students | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Foreign visits to Burma are restricted to three days (extended in the next decade to one week) | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Student demonstrations against Ne Win's rule become regular occurrences, suppressed with military violence | |
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| 1987 |
| | | Most of the currency in circulation in Burma becomes worthless when Ne Win replaces it with new 45 and 90 kyat notes (he says 9 is is his lucky number) | |
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| 1988 |
| | | A protest against the new Burmese currency escalates after the military kill a student activist, Maung Phone Maw, on the campus of Rangoon university | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Students demonstrating in Rangoon are joined by civilians and monks in what becomes known as the 8888 Uprising (from the date, 8/8/88) | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Burma from England, to look after her dying mother | |
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| 1988 |
| | | General Saw Maung seizes power in Burma and crushes the 8888 Uprising, by now nation-wide, with probably about 3000 deaths | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Saw Maung calls his new regime the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) but promises to hold a free election in 1990 | |
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