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History
Historical Dates (1773-1947)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pitt’s India Act | 1784 |
| The Rohilla war | 1774 |
| First Maratha War | 1775-82 |
| Treaty of Salbai | 1782 |
| Second Mysore war | 1780-84 |
| Asiatic society of Bengal | 1784 |
| Third Mysore War | 1790-92 |
| Treaty of Seringa-patam | 1792 |
| Cornwallis Code | 1793 |
| Permanent settlement of Bengal | 1793 |
| Europeanisation of administrative machinery and introduction of Civil Services. | Lord Cornwallis |
| Battle of Kharda between the Nizam and the Marathas | 1795 |
| Subsidiary alliance (first with the Nizam of Hyderabad) | 1798 |
| Fourth Mysore War | 1799 |
| Second Maratha War | 1803-1805 |
| Treaty of Bassein | 1802 |
| Vellore Mutiny | 1806 |
| Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh | 1809 |
| Anglo-Nepal War | 1814-1816 |
| Treaty of Sugauli | 1816 |
| Third Maratha War | 1817-19 |
| Creation of Bombay Presidency | 1818 |
| Strife with Pindaris | 1817-1818 |
| Treaty with Sindhia | 1817 |
| Ryotwari System by Thomas Munro, governor of Madras | 1820 |
| First Burmese War | 1824-1826 |
| Bharatpur was captured in: | 1826 |
| Abolition of sati and other cruel rites | 1829 |
| Suppression of thugi | 1830 |
| Education reforms and introduction of English as the official language | 1835 |
| Treaty of “Perpetual friendship” with Ranjit Singh | 1831 |
| First Afghan War | 1838-1842 |
| Death of Ranjit Singh | 1839 |
| Annexation of Sindh | 1843 |
| First Anglo-Sikh War; Treaty of Lahore | 1845-1846; 1846 |
| Social reforms including abolition of female infanticide and human sacrifice | Lord Hardinge |
| Second Anglo-Sikh war | 1848-1849 |
| Annexation of Punjab | 1849 |
| Introduction of doctrine of lapse | 1848; Lord Dalhousie |
| Annexation of Satara | 1848 |
| Annexation of Jaitpur and Sambhalpur | 1849 |
| Annexation of Udaipur | 1852 |
| Annexation of Jhansi | 1853 |
| Annexation of Nagpur | 1854 |
| Annexation of Awadh | 1856 |
| Charles Woods Dispatch and opening of Anglo-vernacular schools and government colleges | 1854, Education |
| Railway minute; and laying down of first railway lines connecting Bombay and thane | 1853 |
| Telegraph (4000 miles of telegraph lines to connect Calcutta with Bombay, madras and Peshawar) and postal (post office act, 1854) reforms | 1854 |
| Ganges canal declared open | 1854 |
| Establishment of separate public works department in every province | 1854 |
| Widow remarriage act | 1856 |
| Establishment of three universities at Calcutta, madras and Bombay | 1857 |
| Transfer of control from east India company to the crown | 1858 |
| ‘White mutiny’ by European troops | 1859 |
| Wahabi movement | 1830s to 1860s |
| Bhutan war | 1865 |
| Setting up of the high courts at Calcutta, Bombay and madras | 1865 |
| Opening of the Rajkot college in Kathiawar and the Mayo college at Ajmer for political training of Indian princes. | Lord Mayo |
| Establishment of statistical survey of India. | Lord Mayo |
| Establishment of department of agriculture and commerce. | Lord Mayo |
| Introduction of state railways | Lord Mayo |
| Visit of prince of wales | 1875 |
| Kuka movement in Punjab | 1872 |
| Royal Titles Act | 1876 |
| The Vernacular Press Act | 1878 |
| The Arms Act | 1878 |
| The Second Afghan War | 1878-1880 |
| Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act | 1882 |
| The first Factory Act | 1881 |
| Hunter Commission | 1882, Education |
| Government resolution on local self-government | 1882; Father of local self-government in India -Lord Ripon |
| The Ilbert Bill controversy | 1883-1884 |
| The Third Burmese War | 1885-1886 |
| Establishment of the Indian National Congress | 1885 |
| June Third Plan/ The Mountbatten Plan | June 3, 1947 |
| Indian Independence Bill | July 18, 1947 |
| Announcement of end of British rule in India by Clement Attlee (prime minister of England) | February 20, 1947 |
| Elections to the Constituent Assembly, formation of Interim Government by the Congress | September 1946 |
| Direct Action Day by the Muslim League | August 16, 1946 |
| Quit India Resolution | August 8, 1942 |
| August Revolution | 1942 |
| Cripps Mission | March, 1942 |
| Escape of Subhash Chandra Bose from India | 1941 |
| Organisation of the Indian National Army | 1942-1945; HQ: Moirang |
| August Offer | 1940, Lord Linlithgow |
| Lahore Resolution (demand for separate state for Muslims.) | March, 1940 |
| Formation of the Forward Bloc | 1939 |
| Subhash Chandra Bose elected as the president of Congress at the fifty-first session of the Congress | 1938 |
| Resignation of the Congress ministries after the outbreak of the Second World War | 1939 |
| First general elections | 1936-1937 |
| Burma separated from India | 1935 |
| Establishment of All India Kisan Sabha | 1936 |
| Establishment of Congress Socialist | 1934; Acharya Narendra Dev, Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia |
| Launch of Individual Civil Disobedience | 1933 |
| Third Round Table Conference | 1932 |
| Poona Pact | 1932 |
| Announcement of Communal Award | 1932 |
| Second Round Table Conference | 1931 |
| Chittagong Armoury Raid | 1930; Surya Sen |
| Indian Republican Army | 1930; Surya Sen |
| First Round Table Conference | 1930 |
| Gandhi-Irwin Pact | 1931 |
| Deepavali Declaration | 1929; Lord Irwin |
| Dandi March | March 12, 1930 |
| Purna Swaraj Resolution | 1929, Lahore |
| Murder of Saunders, bomb blast in the Assembly Hall of Delhi, bomb accident in train in Delhi | 1929 |
| Lahore Conspiracy Case and death of Jatin Das after prolonged hunger strike | 1929 |
| Harcourt Butler Indian States Commission | 1927 |
| Nehru Report or the Nehru Constitution | 1928, Lucknow |
| Simon Commission | 1928, Constitutional Reforms |
| Decision to hold simultaneous examinations for the ICS both in Delhi and London | 1923 |
| Categorisation of civil services into imperial, provisional and subordinate | Lord Lansdowne(1888-1894) |
| Setting up of Durand Commission (To define the Durand Line between India and Afghanistan) | 1893 |
| Two British officials assassinated by Chapekar brothers | 1897 |
| Appointment of Police Commission | 1902 under Sir Andrew Frazer to review police administration |
| Appointment of Universities Commission | 1902 |
| Establishment of Department of Commerce and Industry | Lord Curzon |
| Calcutta Corporation Act | 1899 |
| Ancient Monuments Preservation Act | 1904 |
| Partition of Bengal | 1905 |
| Curzon-Kitchener controversy | Lord Curzon |
| Younghusband’s Mission to Tibet | 1904 |
| Popularisation of anti-partition and Swadeshi Movements | Lord Minto II |
| Split in Congress in the annual session in Surat | 1907; Rash Behari Ghosh |
| Establishment of Muslim League by Aga Khan | 1906 |
| Morley Minto reforms or Indian Councils Act | 1909 |
| Nasik conspiracy | 1909 |
| Creation of Bengal Presidency | 1911 |
| Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi | 1911 |
| Establishment of the Hindu Mahasabha | 1915; Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| Coronation durbar of King George V held in Delhi | 1911 |
| Formation of Home Rule Leagues by Annie Besant and Tilak | 1916 |
| Lucknow pact between the Congress and Muslim League | 1916 |
| Foundation of Sabarmati Ashram | 1916 after Gandhi’s return |
| Montagu’s August Declaration | 1917; This declaration proposed the increased participation of Indians in the administration and the development of self-governing institutions in India |
| The Rowlatt Act | 1919 |
| Jallianwalla Bagh massacre | 1919 |
| Launch of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements | August 1, 1920 |
| Foundation of Women’s University at Poona | 1916 |
| Death of Tilak | August 1, 1920 |
| Appointment of SP Sinha as governor of Bihar | the first Indian to become a governor |
| Chauri Chaura incident | February 5, 1922 and the subsequent withdrawal of Non-Cooperation Movement |
| Moplah rebellion in Kerala | 1921 |
| Repeal of the Press Act of 1910 and the Rowlatt Act of 1919 | Lord Reading; 1922 |
| Abolition of cotton excise | 1926 |
| Kakori train robbery | 1925 |
| Murder of Swami Shraddhanand | 1926 |
| Establishment of Swaraj Party by CR Das and Motilal Nehru | 1922 |
| Launch of Champaran Satyagraha | 1917 |
| Indian Universities Act | 1904 |
| Saddler Commission | 1917, Education |
| Trial of Indian National Army at Red Fort | 1945 |
| S.C. Bose forms Provisional Government of Free India and Indian National Army in Singapore; Bengal famine. | 1943-1944 |
| WW2 Begins | September 3, 1939 |
| Death of Lala Lajpat Rai | 1928 |
| Second Anglo-Burmese War | 1852 |
| Death of Raja Rammohan Roy at Bristol, England | 1833 |
| Santhal Rebellion | 1855 |
| Birth of Mahraja Ranjit Singh | 1780 |
| Founding of the Indian Museum, Calcutta | 1814 |
| MacDonnell Commission | 1900, Famine |
| Floud Commission | 1940, Tenancy in Bengal |
| Delhi Chalo Movement | 1940 |
| Tebagha Movement | 1946-1947, Kansari Halder, Ila Mitra (Bengal famine of 1943, 24 Parganas) |
| Hindu Mela, National Gymnasium and National Circus was founded by | Nabagopal Mitra |
| Chittaranjan is also known as | Deshbandhu |
| Anushilan Samiti was founded by | Pramathanath Mitra |
| Ghadar Mutiny | 1915, Rash Behari Bose |
| Plot to kill Lord Hardinge | Ghadar Mutiny, Rash Behari Bose |
| Handed over INA to SC Bose | Rash Behari Bose |
| Ghadar Party founded | 1913, USA, Lala Hardayal |
| Two wings of Anushilan Samiti | Dhaka Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar |
| Kakori Case and Chittagong Armoury Raid orchestrated by | Anushilan Samiti |
| Munda Rebellion (Ulgulan) | Birsa Munda,1899-1900 |
| Theosophical Society's HQ in India | Adyar, Chennai 1882 |
| Santhal Rebellion happened in | 1855, Jharkhand |
| People assocated with Santhal Rebellion | Sidhu and Kanu |
| Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was founded in | 1870, MG Ranade |
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