Modern History: important Dates and Events

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> 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.
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> 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.