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HISTORICAL EVENTS |
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A.D |
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| 1853 |
First Indian railway from Bombay to Thane. |
| 1857-58 |
First war of Indian Independence. |
| 1858 |
British crown takes over the Indian Government; End of East India Company's rule. |
| 1861 |
Birth of Rabindra Nath Tagore. |
| 1869 |
Birth of M.K. Gandhi. |
| 1885 |
Formation of Indian National Congress. |
| 1905 |
Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon. |
| 1906 |
Formation of All India Muslim League. |
| 1909 |
Minto-Morley Reforms. |
| 1911 |
Delhi durbar held, partition of Bengal cancelled, capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi. |
| 1914 |
World War I started. |
| 1918 |
End of World War I. |
| 1919 |
Rowlatt Act, Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Montague- Chelmsford reforms. |
| 1920 |
Non-cooperation Movement launched, |
| 1921 |
Moplah rebellian in Malabar; visit of Prince of Wales. |
| 1922 |
Chauri-Chaura incidence. |
| 1923 |
Swaraj party formed. |
| 1927 |
Simon Commission appointed. |
| 1928 |
Visit of Simon Commission to India, death of Lala Lajpat Rai. |
| 1929 |
Congress demanded'Poorna Swaraj'in Lahore session. |
| 1930 |
January 26 celebrated as Independence Day throughout India, Dandi Salt Satyagraha, First Round Table conference. |
| 1931 |
Gandhi-lrvin Pact, Second Round Table Conference. |
| 1932 |
Suppression of Congress Movement, Third Round Table Conference, Communal Award, Poona Pact. |
| 1935 |
Government of India Act. |
| 1937 |
Inauguration of Provincial Autonomy. Congress ministries formed in 8 out of 11 provinces. |
| 1939 |
Resignation of Congress ministries, beginning of World War II. |
| 1942 |
Cripps Mission Plan, Quit India Movement, Formation of Indian National Army by S.C. Bose. |
| 1945 |
Simla conference held and the failure of Wavell Plan, INA trials at Red Fort, Delhi. |
| 1946 |
Cabinet Mission Plan, Formation of Interim Government, Direct Action Resolution by Muslim League. |
| 1947 |
Mountbatten Plan of June 3 in which partition of India resolution is proposed, India divided, Pakistan created, both achieve independence, Jawarhar Lai Nehru becomes
the I Prime Minister of India.
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| 1948 |
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (Jan. 30). |
| 1950 |
India became republic (Jan. 26). |
| 1951 |
First Five Year Plan implemented. |
| 1952 |
First General Elections held. |
| 1953 |
Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary conquer Mt. Everest (May 29). |
| 1954 |
Panchsheel agreement between India and China. |
| 1956 |
Life insurance nationalized, State Reorganising Act comes into force. |
| 1957 |
Second General Elections. |
| 1958 |
Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
| 1959 |
Dalai Lama exiled; enters India. |
| 1961 |
Liberation of Goa. |
| 1962 |
Chinese attack on India. (Oct 20). |
| 1964 |
Jawaharlal Nehru dies; Lai Bahadur Shastri becomes PM. |
| 1965 |
Indo-Pak war. |
| 1966 |
Tashkent Agreement reached, Death of Lai Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi became PM. |
| 1967 |
Dr. Zakir Hussain elected President. |
| 1968 |
Hargovind Khurana shares the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. |
| 1969 |
Death of. President Zakir Hussain (May 3). V. V. Giri elected President, Nationalization of 14 leading banks, Split in Indian National Congress. |
| 1970 |
Former Indian ruler's privy purses abolished. Dr. C. V. Raman died (Nov. 2). |
| 1971 |
Indo-Pak War over Bangladesh. |
| 1972 |
Shimla Agreement signed. |
| 1973 |
Manekshaw named India's first Field Marshal |
| 1974 |
Nuclear explosion at Pokhran (May 18). |
| 1975 |
Indian satellite 'Aryabhatta' launched, National emergency declared. |
| 1976 |
The four Indian News agencies merged into a single News Agency known as 'Samachar', life of Lok Sabha extended by an year. |
| 1977 |
Defeat of Mrs. Indira Gandhi in the election, Morarji Desai takes over as PM, emergency withdrawn. |
| 1978 |
India launches world's biggest adult literacy plan (Oct. 2). |
| 1979 |
Charan Singh became PM., Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1980 |
Indira Gandhi returns to power at centre, India launches first satellite using its own satellite launching vehicle (July. 18). |
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