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1840 CE
1838 CE - 1842 CE: The First Anglo-Afghan War between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British East India Company.
1838 CE: The British East India Company issues the Simla Manifesto which outlines its reasons for invading Afghanistan.
1839 CE: The British East India Company army enters Afghanistan.
1839 CE: Shah Shuja, the EIC-backed candidate, is crowned the new emir of Afghanistan.
1839 CE: The East India Company captures the Afghan fortress of Ghazni.
1841 CE: A mob in Kabul murders Alexander Burnes, an important political officer of the East India Company.
1841 CE: William Macnaughten, the EIC envoy to Kabul, is murdered by Akbar Khan.
1842 CE: The British East India Company army in Kabul begins its disastrous withdrawal.
1842 CE: The final members of the East India Company army that retreated from Kabul are wiped out.
1842 CE: Shah Shuja is assassinated.
1842 CE: Major-General George Pollock leads a British East India Company that retakes Kabul but then withdraws.
1843 CE: Dost Mohammad is restored to power in Afghanistan.