NCERT Important Dates History Class 6 to 12

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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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