Modern History Notes
Important Events:
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 ends.
1919 :- Montague-Chelmsford
Reforms introduced, Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar.
1920 :- Khilafat Movement
launched.
1927 :- Boycott of Simon
Commission, broadcasting started in India.
1928 :- Death of Lala
Lajpat Rai.
1929 :- Resolution of
'Poorna Swaraj' (complete independence) passed at Lahore Session of INC.
1930 :- Civil
disobedience movement launched, Dandi 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 forms
Provisional Government of Free India and 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.
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