HISTORICAL EVENTS

HISTORICAL EVENTS
A.D
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 Leagues.
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.
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).