1979 in Bangladesh

Incumbents

• President: Ziaur Rahman
• Prime Minister: Mashiur Rahman, Shah Azizur Rahman
• Chief Justice: Kemaluddin Hossain

  Demography

Climate

Economy

Events

• 26 January – Near Chuadanga, a train derails and overturns, killing at least 70 and injuring at least 300.
• 18 February – Second National Parliamentary Elections were held. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which won 207 of the 300 seats.
• 6 April – The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh was passed by the Jatiya Sangsad. This Act amended the Fourth Schedule to the constitution by adding a new paragraph 18 thereto, which provided that all amendments, additions, modifications, substitutions and omissions made in the constitution during the period between 15 August 1975 and 9 April 1979 by any Proclamation or Proclamation Order of the Martial Law Authorities had been validly made and would not be called in question in or before any court or tribunal or authority on any ground whatsoever.
• 7 April – Bangladesh started the Expanded Program on Immunization to reduce child deaths from vaccine preventable diseases.

  Sports

• Domestic football: Team BJMC won Dhaka League title, while Abahani KC came out runners-up.

  Births

• Kazi Sharmin Nahid Nupur also known by stage name Shabnur, film actress
• Sadika Parvin Popy, film actress
• Anila Naz Chowdhury, singer

  Deaths

• 3 April – Syed Mahbub Murshed, lawyer and jurist
• 27 June – Bande Ali Mia, poet