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 |