Study Guide · Chapter 4
Modern India (British Rule) Timeline
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1600 | English East India Company chartered |
| 1690 | Calcutta (Fort William) founded by Job Charnock |
| 1757 | Battle of Plassey |
| 1764 | Battle of Buxar |
| 1765 | Treaty of Allahabad; Diwani of Bengal, Bihar, Odisha granted |
| 1770 | Bengal Famine |
| 1773 | Regulating Act; Warren Hastings first Governor-General |
| 1784 | Pitt's India Act |
| 1793 | Permanent Settlement (Cornwallis) |
| 1799 | Fourth Anglo-Mysore War; death of Tipu Sultan |
| 1813 | Charter Act — ends Company trade monopoly (except China) |
| 1817–18 | Third Anglo-Maratha War |
| 1828 | Brahmo Samaj founded |
| 1829 | Sati abolished |
| 1833 | Charter Act — creates Governor-General of India |
| 1835 | Macaulay's Minute on Education |
| 1839–42 | First Anglo-Afghan War |
| 1843 | Annexation of Sindh |
| 1845–49 | Anglo-Sikh Wars |
| 1849 | Annexation of Punjab |
| 1853 | First railway line (Bombay–Thane); Charter Act (open ICS exams) |
| 1856 | Annexation of Awadh; Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act |
| 1857 | Revolt of 1857 |
| 1858 | Government of India Act; Crown rule begins |
| 1861 | Indian Councils Act; Indian Penal Code enacted |
| 1875 | Arya Samaj founded |
| 1876–78 | Great Famine |
| 1878 | Vernacular Press Act; Arms Act |
| 1881, 1891 | Factory Acts |
| 1882 | Ripon's Resolution on Local Self-Government |
| 1883–84 | Ilbert Bill controversy |
| 1885 | Indian National Congress founded |
| 1891 | Age of Consent Act |
| 1892 | Indian Councils Act |
| 1897 | Chapekar Brothers assassinate Rand |
| 1905 | Partition of Bengal; Swadeshi Movement begins |
| 1906 | Muslim League founded |
| 1907 | Surat Split |
| 1908 | Alipore Bomb Case |
| 1909 | Morley-Minto Reforms (separate electorates) |
| 1911 | Delhi Durbar; annulment of Bengal partition; capital shifted to Delhi |
| 1913 | Ghadar Party founded |
| 1914 | Komagata Maru incident |
| 1916 | Lucknow Pact; Home Rule Movement |
| 1917 | Champaran Satyagraha; Annie Besant first woman INC president |
| 1918 | Kheda Satyagraha; Ahmedabad Mill Strike |
| 1919 | Rowlatt Act; Jallianwala Bagh Massacre; Government of India Act (Montford Reforms); Khilafat Movement begins |
| 1920 | Non-Cooperation Movement launched (Nagpur session) |
| 1922 | Chauri Chaura incident; Non-Cooperation withdrawn |
| 1923 | Swaraj Party founded |
| 1925 | Kakori Conspiracy |
| 1927 | Simon Commission constituted |
| 1928 | Simon Commission visit/boycott; Nehru Report; Lala Lajpat Rai's death |
| 1929 | Purna Swaraj Resolution (Lahore); Assembly bombing by Bhagat Singh and Dutt |
| 1930 | Dandi March; Civil Disobedience Movement; First Round Table Conference; Chittagong Armoury Raid |
| 1931 | Gandhi-Irwin Pact; execution of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev; Second Round Table Conference; Karachi session (Fundamental Rights resolution) |
| 1932 | Communal Award; Poona Pact; Third Round Table Conference |
| 1934 | Civil Disobedience formally withdrawn |
| 1935 | Government of India Act |
| 1937 | Provincial elections; Congress ministries formed |
| 1939 | Congress ministries resign (WWII); Subhas Bose resigns from Congress presidency, forms Forward Bloc |
| 1940 | August Offer; Individual Satyagraha begins |
| 1942 | Cripps Mission; Quit India Movement |
| 1943 | Bengal Famine; Azad Hind government formed by Bose |
| 1944 | Imphal-Kohima campaigns (INA) |
| 1945 | Shimla Conference; INA (Red Fort) Trials begin |
| 1946 | Cabinet Mission; Direct Action Day; Interim Government formed; RIN Mutiny |
| 1947 | Mountbatten Plan; Indian Independence Act; Independence and Partition (15 August) |
| 1948 | Assassination of Gandhi (30 January); Operation Polo (Hyderabad integration) |
| 1949 | Constitution of India adopted (26 November) |
| 1950 | Constitution of India comes into force (26 January); India becomes a republic |
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