6 April 1944 (+) is born in Saigon, Vietnam.

21 September 1975 (-) drugged and drowned in a bathtub André Breugnot in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

17 October 1975 (-) drugged and strangled Teresa Knowlton in Pattaya, Thailand.

27 November 1975 (-) burned to death Vitali Hakim in Pattaya, Thailand.

15 December 1975 (-) murdered Cornelia Hemker in Rangsit, Thailand.

22 December 1975 (-) drugged and stabbed to death Connie Bronzich in Kathmandu, Nepal.

2 July 1976 (-) poisoned Jean-Luc Solomon in Bombay, India.

5 July 1976 (x) is arrested while drugging and robbing 60 French students in New Delhi, India.

5 July 1977 (x) Start of the trial against Sobhraj and his accomplices Marie-Andrée Leclerc, Jean Dhuisme, Mary-Ellen Eather and Barbara Sheryl Smith in New Delhi, India.

17 February 1997 (x) is granted bail after spending two decades behind bars in New Delhi, India.

17 September 2003 (x) is recognised in a street by a journalist in Kathmandu, Nepal.

20 August 2004 (x) is sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1975 murders of 29-year-old Connie Bronzich and 26-year-old Laurent Ormond Carrière in Kathmandu, Nepal.