Shiv Sena Timeline

June 19: Shiv Sena is born for 'Marathi manoos'

October: First rally at Shivaji Park, which has became an annual feature till date

October: First agitation against South Indian 'lungiwalas', who were accused of grabbing jobs meant for Marathis

1968: Steps into neighbouring Thane Municipal Corporation by bagging 42 seats in alliance with Praja Socialist Party

1969: Mumbai bandh, allegedly incited violence for three days on the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary dispute, which is unresolved till date

1972: Bags its first seat in Maharashtra assembly

1973: Bags BMC Mayor's post

1975: Party President Bal Thackeray supports then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Emergency

1984: Blamed for the communal cauldron that engulfs Bhiwandi in Thane district

1985: Bags the BMC for the first time on its own strength, harping on 'sons of the soil' issue

1986: Formally becomes a 'Hindutva' party, targets Muslims, spreads to rest of Maharashtra

1989: Becomes an ally of Bharatiya Janata Party, launches Marathi 'Saamana'

1990: Shiv Sena bags 52 seats, BJP gets 42; becomes the main Opposition in the Maharashtra assembly

1991: Big jolt as Bal Thackeray's trusted aide Chhagan Bhujbal quits party, joins Congress

1992: Shiv Sena claims its activists razed Ayodhya's Babri Mosque; later, Bal Thackeray makes famous anti-Muslim comment: "Kick'em out" to Time magazine.

Dec 1992-Jan 1993: Shiv Sena accused of major role in the Mumbai communal carnage

March 1993: Serial bomb blasts rock Mumbai; Shiv Sena talks of 'Hindu Dons' versus 'Muslim Dons.'

1995: Shiv Sena creates history, bags 73 seats to form Maharashtra's first non-Congress government with BJP's 65 seats; Manohar Joshi becomes CM.

1996: Became a key ally of BJP in the first NDA government headed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Bal Thackeray grieves the loss of his wife Meena and son Bindumadhav.

1998:

Severely indicted by the Justice B.N. Srikrishna Commission for its role in the 1992-1993 communal riots

Joins Vajpayee's government

1999:

February: Abruptly ejects the Brahmin, Manohar Joshi, and makes the Maratha, Narayan Rane, the Maharashtra chief minister, ostensibly a 'political correction'

October: Loses power in Maharashtra to a divided Congress, which forms government with Sharad Pawar's six-month old Nationalist Congress Party

2003: Uddhav Thackeray appointed Executive President

2004: SS-BJP lose assembly elections

2005:

Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Nirupam, executive editor of 'Dopahar Ka Saamana' and firebrand orator, quits

Rane quits owing to differences with Uddhav Thackeray.

2006: Senior Thackeray's nephew and Uddhav's cousin, Raj Thackeray, leaves the party to form the independent Maharashtra Navnirman Sena

2009: With just 45 seats, Shiv Sena loses Leader of Opposition post to BJP, which got 46 seats in the assembly elections

2010: Aditya Uddhav Thackeray enters politics, campaigns successfully against Rohinton Mistry's book

November 17, 2012: Founder-patriarch, 'Hindu Hriday Samrat' Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray dies at 86. Accorded state honours at the city's first public funeral in a century at Shivaji Park, and gets a rare tribute in Parliament though he was never elected to either house

2014:

Shiv Sena bags 18 Lok Sabha seats from Maharashtra.

September: Shiv Sena's 25-year old alliance with BJP splits on eve of October assembly elections

Shiv Sena bags 61 seats, BJP gets 122 and Devendra Fadnavis becomes the chief minister

The adamant Shiv Sena prefers to sit in opposition; in December, a month after being in the opposition, the party joins the government

June 19, 2016: Shiv Sena celebrates its golden jubilee