| Year |
Event |
| Oct 1947 |
Maharaja of Kashmir accedes to Indian Sovereignty |
| Jan 1948 |
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi |
| Sep 1948 |
Troops of Government of India enter Hyderabad state |
| Jan 1949 |
UN monitored cease fire takes effect in Kashmir |
| Jan 1950 |
Constitution of India comes into force |
| Oct'51- Feb'52 |
First General Election in India |
| 1952 |
Atomic Energy establishment set up in Bombay; Chandernagar
incorporated with India |
| April 1954 |
India concludes treaty with China |
| 1959 |
ONGC set up; TV transmission introduced in New Delhi;
Indo-Portuguese dispute |
| Mar 1959 |
Dalai Lama flees from Tibet to India |
| Oct 1959 |
Military confrontation with China in Aksai Chin |
| 1960 |
Bombay Presidency bifurcated into Maharashtra and Gujarat
states |
| Dec 1961 |
Liberation of Goa |
| Oct 1962 |
Indo-China war |
| April 1965 |
Pakistan tanks penetrate India. India wins the war. |
| 1966 |
Tashkent Conference; Lal Bahadur Shastri dies; Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister. |
| Dec 1971 |
India-Pakistan War; Formation of
Bangladesh |
| 1972 |
Pakistan and India sign Simla Accord |
| May 1974 |
Underground nuclear explosion at
Pokhran |
| April 1975 |
Indian satellite Aryabhatta launched from a Soviet cosmodrome |
| May 1975 |
Sikkim joins India |
| June 1975 |
Emergency declared |
| June 1979 |
Bhaskara, India's second satellite, launched from a Soviet
cosmodrome |
| Dec 1982 |
The Ninth Asian games held in Delhi |
| June 1983 |
India wins the Cricket World Cup
|
| Oct 1984 |
Indira Gandhi assassinated in Delhi;
Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister |
| July 1988 |
Insat-IC launched
|
| Aug 1988 |
The Darjeeling Accord
|
| May 1991 |
Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by LTTE |
| June'91 |
Liberalisation initiated by Finance Minister Dr Manmohan Singh |
| Dec 1992 |
Demolition of Babri Masjid |
| Jan 1996 |
Prithvi test-fired |
| Aug 1997 |
Nation celebrates 50 years of Independence
|
| Mar 1998 |
Chess legend Vishwanathan Anand wins the Super Grand Master
Title |
| May 1998 |
India conducted three underground Nuclear tests at teh Pokhran
Range in Rajasthan |
| 1998 |
Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati ranked No. 1 in the
world |
| Feb 1999 |
The Lahore Bus Yatra |
| May 1999 |
Pakistan-aided militants and
Pakistan's security forces in disguise intruded the Indian territory in Kargil |
| 1999 |
Paes and Bhupati win three
grand slams and end the year with No. 1 seed in the world. |
| Mar 2000 |
President Clinton visits India. |
