| 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 |
