TIMELINE: Some of the world's worst stampedes

(Reuters) - At least 103 people died and 150 were injured in a stampede on Tuesday at a Hindu temple in the western state of Rajasthan, police said.

Following is a short timeline of some of the worst stampedes in the last 20 years.

March 1988 - In Kathmandu, 70 fans are killed after a stampede toward locked exits in a hailstorm at Nepal's national soccer stadium -- the country's worst civilian disaster.

July 1990 - Inside al-Muaissem tunnel near Mecca in Saudi Arabia, 1,426 pilgrims are crushed to death. The accident occurs on Eid al-Adha (The Feast of Sacrifice), Islam's most important feast at the end of the annual Haj pilgrimage.

May 1994 - Also in Saudi Arabia, a stampede near Jamarat Bridge kills 270 in the area where pilgrims hurl stones at piles of rocks symbolizing the devil.

April 1998 - One hundred and nineteen Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death at the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

May 2001 - In Ghana, 126 people are killed from a stampede at Accra's main soccer stadium when police fire teargas at rioting fans in one of Africa's worst soccer disasters.

February 2004 - A stampede kills 251 Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia near Jamarat Bridge during the ritual stoning of the devil at the annual Haj pilgrimage.

January 2005 - At least 265 Hindu pilgrims, including several women and children, are killed near a remote temple in India's Maharashtra state.

August 2005 - At least 1,005 people die in Iraq when Shi'ites stampede off a bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad, panicked by rumors of a suicide bomber in the crowd.

January 2006 - Three hundred and sixty-two Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death at the eastern entrance of the Jamarat Bridge when pilgrims jostled to perform the stoning ritual between noon and sunset.

February 2006 - Seventy-one people are killed at a stadium in Manila as they scrambled to get into a popular Philippine television game show.

September 2006 - At least 51 people are killed in a Yemeni stadium where President Ali Abdullah Saleh was holding a pre-election rally in the southern province of Ibb.

August 2008 - Rumors of a landslide trigger a stampede by pilgrims in India at the Naina Devi temple, in Bilaspur district, in Himachal Pradesh state. At least 145 people are killed and more than 100 injured.

September 2008 - In India at least 103 people are killed and 150 injured in a stampede at the Chamunda temple, near the historic town of Jodhpur, in the western state of Rajasthan.

(Writing by David Cutler, additional writing by Carl Bagh, London Editorial Reference Unit)