World Wars and the AtomIdeas & Belief The Dalai Lama flees to India 1959Major After a failed uprising in Lhasa, the 14th Dalai Lama escapes to India with thousands of Tibetans. He sets up a government in exile at Dharamsala. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Babylonian mathematics → Babylonian astronomical diaries → Thales and natural philosophy → Trial and death of Socrates → Plato's Academy → Aristotle's Lyceum → Alexander's conquests → Maurya Empire → Gupta Empire → Nalanda university → Tibetan Buddhism (Samye) → Tsongkhapa founds Ganden and the Gelug school → Dalai Lama title created → The Dalai Lama flees to India Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentdalailama.comA brief biography (Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) ↗Editor's pickDocumentbritannica.comDalai Lama (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookDalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)Freedom in Exile ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeDalai Lama escape to India 1959 ↗Editor's pick