| 1757 | Battle of Plassey, establishment of British political rule in India at the hands of Lord Clive |
| 1761 | Third Battle of Panipat |
| 1764 | Battle of Buxar |
| 1765 | Clive appointed Company's Governor in India |
| 1767-69 | First Anglo-Mysore War |
| 1780 | Birth of Maharaja Ranjit Singh |
| 1780-84 | Second Anglo-Mysore War |
| 1784 | Pitt's India Act |
| 1790-92 | Third Anglo-Mysore War |
| 1793 | The Permanent Settlement of Bengal |
| 1799 | Fourth Anglo-Mysore War—Death of Tipu Sultan |
| 1802 | Treaty of Bassein |
| 1809 | Treaty of Amritsar |
| 1829 | Practice of Sati prohibited |
| 1830 | Raja Rammohan Roy visits England |
| 1833 | Death of Raja Rammohan Roy at Bristol, England |
| 1839 | Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh |
| 1839-42 | First Anglo-Afghan War |
| 1845-46 | First Anglo-Sikh War |
| 1852 | Second Anglo-Burmese War |
| 1853 | First Railway line opened between Bombay and Thane and a Telegraph line in Calcutta |
| 1857 | The Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence |
| 1861 | Birth of Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1869 | Birth of Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1885 | Foundation of Indian National Congress |
| 1889 | Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1897 | Birth of Subhash Chandra Bose |
| 1903 | Tibet Expedition (Young Husband delegation) |
| 1905 | Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon |
| 1906 | Foundation of Muslim League by Salimullah (Nawab of Dhaka) at Dhaka |
| 1911 | Delhi Darbar, King and Queen visit India; Delhi becomes the capital of India |
| 1914 | World War I begins |
| 1916 | Lucknow Pact signed by Muslim League and Congress |
| 1918 | World War I ended |
| 1919 | Montague-Chelmsford Reforms introduced, Jallian wala Bagh massacre at Amritsar |
| 1920 | Khilafat Movement launched |
| 1927 | Boycott of Simon Commission, broadcasting started in India |
| 1928 | Death of Lala Lajpat Rai Resolution of Poorna Swaraj (complete independence) passed, at Lahore Session of INC |
| 1930 | Civil disobedience movement launched, band! March by Mahatma Gandhi' (April 6,1930) |
| 1931 | Gandhi-Irwin Pact |
| 1935 | Government of India Act |
| 1937 | Provincial Autonomy, Congress forms ministries |
| 1939 | World War II begins (September 3) |
| 1941 | Escape of Subhash Chandra Bose, from India, Death of Rabindranath Tagore |
| 1942 | Arrival of Cripps Mission in India, Quit India movement launched (August 8) |
| 1943-44 | S.C. Bose formed Provisional Government of Free India and reorganised Indian National Army in Singapore; Bengal famine |
| 1945 | Trial of Indian National Army at Red Fort; Shimla Conference; World War II ends |
| 1946 | British Cabinet Mission visits India; Interim government formed at the Centre |
| 1947 | Division of India; India & Pakistan form separate independent dominions |