|
Year |
Event |
1757 |
Battle
of Plassey: The British defeat Siraj-ud-daulah |
1760 |
Battle
of Wandiwash: The British defeat the French |
1764 |
Battle
of Buxar: The British defeat Mir Kasim |
1775 |
The
First Anglo-Maratha war |
1784 |
Second
Mysore War : The British defeat Hyder Ali |
1790 |
Third
Mysore War between the British and Tipu |
1799 |
Fourth
Mysore War: The British defeat Tipu; Death of Tipu; Partition of Mysore
|
1805 |
The
Second Anglo-Maratha war: The British defeat the Marathas at Assaye: Treaty of Amritsar
|
1814 |
The
Anglo-Gurkha war |
1817 |
The
last Anglo-Maratha war: Marathas finally crushed by the British |
1824 |
The
First Burmese war |
1839 |
First
Afghan war |
1845 |
First
Anglo-Sikh war |
1849 |
Second
Anglo-Sikh war, British annex Punjab as Sikhs are defeated |
1852 |
Second
Anglo-Burmese war |
1853 |
Railway
opened from Bombay to Thane; Telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra |
1857
|
First War of Indian Independence: The Sepoy
Mutiny |
1877 |
Delhi
Durbar: The Queen of England proclaimed Empress of India |
| 1905 |
The First Partition of Bengal |
| 1906 |
Formation of Muslim League; Congress declaration regarding Swaraj |
| 1912 |
The Imperial capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi
|
| 1919 |
Jalianwalla Bagh massacre; The Montague-Chelmsford Reforms offer limited
autonomy |
| 1922 |
Civil Disobedience Movement; Chauri-Chaura violence leads to Gandhi
suspending movement |
| 1930 |
Civil Disobedience movement continues; Salt Satyagraha: Gandhiji's Dandi
March |
| 1942 |
Subhash Chandra Bose forms Indian National Army
|
| 1944 |
Gandhi-Jinnah Talks break down on Pakistan issue |
| 1947 |
Announcement of Lord Mountbatten's plan for partition of India on June
3rd. |
| 1974 |
Partition of India and Independence (15th August). Jawaharlal Nehru
becomes the first Prime Minister. |
