Events
Chronological Modern History Important Events
Chronological Modern History Important Events
All the important events related to modern history is enlisted below, please go through and cram it. It will be very beneficial for various exams like SSC, RRB, FCI,etc.
✎: 1757
☛ Event: Battle of Plassey, establishment of British political rule in India at the hands of Lord Clive.
✎: 1761
☛ Event: Third Battle of Panipat.
✎: 1764
☛ Event: Battle of Buxar.
✎: 1765
☛ Event: Clive appointed Company's Governor in India.
✎: 1767-69
☛ Event: First Anglo-Mysore War.
✎: 1780
☛ Event: Birth of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
✎: 1780-84
☛ Event: Second Anglo-Mysore War.
✎: 1784
☛ Event: Pitt’s India Act.
✎: 1790-92
☛ Event: Third Anglo-Mysore War.
✎: 1793
☛ Event: The Permanent Settlement of Bengal.
✎: 1799
☛ Event: Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. Death of Tipu Sultan.
✎: 1802
☛ Event: Treaty of Bassein.
✎: 1809
☛ Event: Treaty of Amritsar.
✎: 1829
☛ Event: Practice of Sati prohibited.
✎: 1830
☛ Event: Raja Rammohan Roy visits England.
✎: 1833
☛ Event: Death of Raja Rammohan Roy at Bristol, England.
✎: 1839
☛ Event: Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
✎: 1839-42
☛ Event: First Anglo-Afghan War.
✎: 1845-46
☛ Event: First Anglo-Sikh War.
✎: 1852
☛ Event: Second Anglo-Burmese War.
✎: 1853
☛ Event: First Railway line opened between Bombay and Thane and a Telegraph line in Calcutta.
✎: 1857
☛ Event: The Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence.
✎: 1861
☛ Event: Birth of Rabindranath Tagore.
✎: 1869
☛ Event: Birth of Mahatma Gandhi.
✎: 1885
☛ Event: Foundation of Indian National Congress.
✎: 1889
☛ Event: Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru.
✎: 1897
☛ Event: Birth of Subhash Chandra Bose.
✎: 1903
☛ Event: Tibet Expedition (Young Husband delegation).
✎: 1905
☛ Event: Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon.
✎: 1906
☛ Event: Foundation of Muslim League by Salimullah (Nawab of Dhaka) at Dhaka.
✎: 1911
☛ Event: Delhi Darbar, King and Queen visit India; Delhi becomes the capital of India.
✎: 1914
☛ Event: World War I begins.
✎: 1916
☛ Event: Lucknow Pact signed by Muslim League and Congress.
✎: 1918
☛ Event: World War I ends.
✎: 1919
☛ Event: Montague-Chelmsford Reforms introduced, Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar.
✎: 1920
☛ Event: Khilafat Movement launched.
✎: 1927
☛ Event: Boycott of Simon Commission, broadcasting started in India.
✎: 1928
☛ Event: Death of Lala Lajpat Rai.
✎: 1929
☛ Event: Resolution of 'Poorna Swaraj' (complete independence) passed at Lahore Session of INC.
✎: 1930
☛ Event: Civil disobedience movement launched, Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi (April 6, 1930).
✎: 1931
☛ Event: Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
✎: 1935
☛ Event: Government of India Act.
✎: 1937
☛ Event: Provincial Autonomy, 'Congress forms ministries.
✎: 1939
☛ Event: World War II begins (September 3).
✎: 1941
☛ Event: Escape of Subhash Chandra Bose from India, Death of Rabindranath Tagore.
✎: 1942
☛ Event: Arrival of Cripps Mission in India, Quit India movement launched (August 8).
✎: 1943-44
☛ Event: S.C. Bose forms Provisional Government of Free India and Indian National Army in Singapore; Bengal famine.
✎: 1945
☛ Event: Trial of Indian National Army at Red Fort; Shimla Conference; World War II ends.
✎: 1946
☛ Event: British Cabinet Mission visits India; Interim government formed at the Centre.
✎: 1947
☛ Event: Division of India; India & Pakistan form separate independent dominions.