Year

Event

1806

Vellore Mutiny

1809

East India Company signs the first Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh

1814

"Atmiya Sabha" Established Later on known as "Prarthana Samaj" By Raja Ram Mohan Roy

1853

Started Post Service

1853

First Railway established between Bombay and Thane

1855

Santhal rebellion

1857

Indian Rebellion of 1857

1867

"Prarthana Samaj" established. Earlier known as "Atmiya Sabha"

1875

"Arya Samaj" Established

1877

Delhi Durbar First time

1885

Indian National Congress established

1899

"Mithra Mela"Established by V.D.Savarkar.

1902

Anushilan Samiti, organized revolutionary association formed.

1903

British Expedition to Tibet

 

Delhi Durbar Second Time.

1905

Partition of Bengal

1906

Jugantar formed.

 

Muslim League formed in Dacca.

1908

Alipore bomb case

1909

Morley-Minto Reforms

1911

Cancellation of Partition of Bengal

 

Delhi Durbar Third Time

1911

British government change capital city from Calcutta to Delhi.

1912

Delhi conspiracy case

1913

Gadar Party formed.

1914

Hindu–German Conspiracy

1915

Ghadar conspiracy

 

Mahatma Gandhi returns to India.

1916

Lucknow Pact

1917

Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha

1919

Jallianwala Bagh massacre

 

Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms

 

Rowlatt Act is passed

1920

Non-cooperation movement Khilafat Movement

1922

Chauri Chaura incident

1924

Hindustan Socialist Republican Associationis formed

1925

Kakori conspiracy

1927

Simon Commission

1928

Bardoli Satyagraha

1929

Central Assembly Bombed by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt.

 

Purna Swaraj resolution.

1930

Salt Satyagraha, the civil disobedience movement, begins with the Dandi march

 

Round Table Conferences (India)First

1931

Gandhi–Irwin Pact

 

Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev Martyred

 

Round Table Conferences (India)Second

1932

Poona Pact

 

Communal Award

 

Round Table Conferences (India)Third

1935

Government of India Act 1935

1937

Indian provincial elections, 1937

1939

All India Forward Bloc Established by Subhas Chandra Bose

1940

Lahore Resolution

 

August offer 1940

1942

Quit India Movement

 

Cripps' mission

 

Indian National Army Established by Subhas Chandra Bose

1943

Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, the Provisional Government of Free India formed by Netaji.

1944

Subhas Chandra Bose calls Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation.

1945

Wavell Plan.

Simla Conference.

1946

Royal Indian Navy Mutiny

 

Cabinet Mission

 

Direct Action Day/Great Calcutta Killings

1947

Indian Independence Act 1947 by British Raj.

 

Partition of India and Pakistan becomes an independent state on 14 August 1947.

 

Freedom from British Raj.

 

Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal bloodshed after partition. (to 1948)

1948

Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by a right wing Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse.

 

War with Pakistanover disputed territory of Kashmir.

 

Telangana and other princely states integrated in Indian union

1950

India became Republic.