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| 1975 |
| | | The South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, is taken by North Vietnamese forces | |
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| 1975 |
| | | South Vietnam surrenders, as President Duong Van Minh broadcasts an order to all South Viernames forces to lay down their arms | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Mujibur Rahman, with most of his family, is assassinated by junior officers in a coup in Bangladesh | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Zia ul-Haq, the Chief of Army Staff, takes power in a bloodless coup against the government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Ex-president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed in Pakistan for allegedly authorizing the murder of a political opponent | |
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| 1980 |
| | | The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerges in India from previous Hindu nationalist groups and soon acquires a large following | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children uses the moment of India's independence to launch an adventure in magic realism | |
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| 1983 |
| | | The Tamil Tigers launch a civil war against the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Sikh rebels, demanding an independent Punjab, seize the Golden Temple in Amritsar | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi uses the army to dislodge militant Sikhs occupying the Golden Temple in Amritsar | |
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