2000 in Bangladesh

← 1999 1998 1997 2000 in Bangladesh → 2001 2002 2003
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	Other events of 2000 List of years in Bangladesh

The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Bangladesh.

Events

March

• 20 March - President Bill Clinton becomes the first president of America to visit Bangladesh.^[1]

August

• 2 August - The International Cricket Council voted to make Bangladesh the 10th test-playing nation.^[2]

September

• Sheikh Hasina criticises the military regimes in a UN speech, prompting Pakistani leader General Musharraf to cancel talks with her. Relations strained further by row over leaked Pakistani report on 1971 war of independence.^[3]

November

• 10 November - The Bangladesh national cricket team make their test debut.^[4]

December

• Bangladesh expels Pakistani diplomat for comments on the 1971 war. The diplomat had put the number of dead at 26,000, whereas Bangladesh says nearly three million were killed.^[5]

See also

• Timeline of Bangladeshi history

References