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List of Important Dates
Sr No |
Important Dates (Year) | Incidents |
1 | 1707 |
Death of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb |
2 |
1717 | Mughal Emperor Farukhsiyar granted duty free trading rights to the British company |
3 | 1744’-48 |
First Anglo French war |
4 |
1750’-54 | Second Anglo French war |
5 | 1756’- 63 |
Seven years war in Europe; Third Anglo French war |
6 |
1760 | Battle of Wandiwash-End of French challenge |
7 | 1756 |
Siraj-ud-Dullah, Nawab of Bengal, Captured Calcutta from the British |
8 |
1757 | Battle of Plassey |
9 | 1764 |
Battle of Buxar |
10 |
1765 | Grant of Diwani rights of Bengal , Bihar and Orissa to the British company by Mughal emperor Shah Alam II |
11 | 1767-‘69 |
First Anglo Mysore war |
12 |
1772 | Warren Hastings appointed as Governor |
13 | 1773 |
Regulating Act |
14 |
1774 |
Warren Hastings appointed as Governor General; Supreme Court ( Imperial court) established in Calcutta |
15 |
1775’-82 | First Anglo Maratha war |
16 | 1780 |
Hickey’s Bengal gazette published |
17 |
1780-‘84 | Second Anglo Mysore war |
18 | 1784 |
Pitt’s India Act |
19 |
1786 | Lord Cornwallis became the new Governor General |
20 | 1790-‘92 |
Third Anglo Mysore war |
21 |
1818 | Darpan and Digambar published as Bengali newspapers |
22 | 1828 |
Lord William Bentinck appointed Governor General |
23 |
1829 | Prohibition of Sati |
24 | 1833 |
Withdrawal of rights of monopoly business of English East India Company |
25 |
1835 | Lord Macaulay’s minute on education |
26 | 1845-‘46 |
First Anglo Sikh war |
27 |
1848 | Lord Dalhousie appointed Governor General |
28 | 1853 |
Railway started from Bombay to Thane |
29 |
1856 | Ayodhya acquired on behalf of company; Widow remarriage act introduced |
30 | 1857-‘58 |
Sepoy mutiny and mass movement |
31 |
1858 | Establishment of rule of Victoria, Queen of England |
32 | 1859-‘60 |
Indigo revolt in Bengal |
33 |
1876 | Establishment of India Council |
34 | 1876-‘77 |
Delhi durbar – Queen Victoria proclaimed as the Empress of India |
35 |
1878 | Vernacular press act to control native newspapers like “Rajadrohi” |
36 | 1883 |
Libert bill controversy |
37 |
185 | Indian National Congress established . |
38 | 1899 |
Lord Curzon appointed Viceroy |
39 |
1905 | Partition of Bengal announced and anti-partition movement |
40 | 1906 |
All India Muslim League founded |
41 |
1907 | Surat session of India National Congress and Moderates and Extremists split |
42 | 1911 |
Partition of Bengal annulled |
43 |
1912 | Transfer of British empired capital from Delhi to Calcutta |
44 | 1914 |
World War I started |
45 |
1915 | Gandhi returned to India |
46 | 1916 |
Lucknow pact between Muslim League and Indian National Congrees; Home rule formed |
47 |
1919 | Montague-Chelmsford reforms; Anti Rowlattact movement ; Jalianwala bag massacre |
48 | 1921 |
Khilafat and Non-Cooperation movement under Gandhi’s leadership |
49 |
1922 | Withdrawal of Civil disobedience movement after violence in Chaurichaura |
50 | 1923 |
Candidates of Swarajya party enter Legislative Assembly |
51 |
1928 | India tour of Simon Commission ; agitation against commission; aqll party conference; MotilalNehru’s report of future constitution of India |
52 | 1929 |
Lahore Congress and proposal of demanding PurnaSwaraj |
53 |
1930 | Civil Disobedience under Gandhi’s leadership; First Round table Conference for discussion on future of Indian constitution of India |
54 | 1931 |
Gandhi- Irwin pact; Civil disobedience movement called off; Gandhi’s participation in Second Round table conference; meeting faild; Bhagat Singh, SukhdevvandRajguru hanged. |
55 |
1932 | Congress banned; Civil disobedience for a second time; communal harmony and Poona pact ; Third round table conference |
56 | 1934 |
Civil disobedience withdrawn; ‘Mastarda ‘ Surya Sen hanged |
57 |
1935 | Government of India Act |
58 | 1937 |
Congress forms ministries in eight provinces |
59 |
1939 | World war II beings; Tripuri session of Indian National Congress |
60 | 1940 |
Lord Linlithgow’s proposal on Dominion status; Muslim League adopts Lahore proposal |
61 |
1942 | Cripps Mission failed; Quit India movement |
62 | 1944 |
Gandhi – Jinnah meeting |
63 |
1945 | Trial of Azad Hind Fauj prisoners; Protest in all places |
64 | 1946 |
Royal India Navy Mutiny; Cabinet Commission to India; Interim Government under Jawaharlal Nehru; Hindu Muslim riots |
65 |
1947 | Clement Attlee’s declaration to hand over power by June 1948; Mountbatten Plan; India independence Act; Hand over of power to Pakistan and India; Communal violence and massacre |
66 | 1949 |
New constitution of independent India drafted and signed (26th November) |
67 |
1950 |
New Constitution comes into force, India becomes a Republic ( 26th January) |
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