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1850-Law passed by Lord Dalhousie that entitled a person to convert to Christianity to inherit

ancestral property

1856-General Service Enlistment Act passed by British 1857-First War of Independence, Revolt of
the Sepoys 10th May 1857- Revolt of the sepoys at Meerut

8th April 1857-Mangal Pande was arrested and hanged. 1858-Government of India Act passed by
British, Rule of East India Company came to an end 1st November 1858-Queen Victoria's
Proclamation

1866-East India Association organized by Dadabhai Naoroji

1876-Indian Association of Calcutta formed by Surendranath Banerjee

1877-Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 1877-
Delhi Durbar held by Lord Lytton

1878-Indian Arms Act passed by Lord Lytton 1878-Vernacular Press Act passed by Lord Lytton

1882-Vernacular Press Act repealed by Lord Ripon

1883-Indian National Conference

1885-Indian National Congress was founded

28th to 31st December 1885-First conference of Indian National Congress

1886-Indian National Congress merged with All India National Confererice 1885 to 1905-Moderate
Phase

1905 to 1918-Radical Phase

1919 to 1947-Gandhian Era

1892-Indian Councils Act passed by British was held.

1893-Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental Defense Association was founded 1898 and 1902-Surendranath


Banerjee
elected President of congress 1904-Universities Act passed by Lord Curzon

1904-Official Secrets Act passed by Lord Curzon

1905-Gopal Krishna Gokhale was President of annual session of Congress at Banaras (now
Varanasi) 1905- Servants of India Society founded by Gopal Krishan Gokhale

1905-Partition of Bengal announced by Lord Curzon 7th August 1905-Anti-partition Movement was
started 16th October 1905-Effective day of partition of Bengal, Observed as Raksha Bandhan Day

1906-Split between Radicals and Moderates was averted by Dadabhai Naoroji at annual session of
Congress in Kolkata

1906-All-India Muslim League was formed at Dacca

1907-Surat Session of Congress: Splitting up of Radicals and Moderates

1909-Minto-Morley Reforms (Le. revised version of Indian Councils Act) passed by British 1911-
Partition of Bengal was cancelled

1913-Muslam League declared at its annual session that its aim was self-governance 1914 to 1918-
First World War

1914 to 1917-National Movement

1916-Radicals and Moderates united at Lucknow session of Congress, Lucknow Pact 1916-Home
Rule Leaques taunched by Tilak and Annie Besant

1917-August Declaration (Montague-Chelmsford Declaration)/ Montague-Chelmsford Reforms


1919-Government

of India Act was passed

1919 - Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy

1919-Rowlatt Act (also known as the Black Act) was passed 1920-Non-cooperation Movement was
started
1922-Swaraj Party was organized

1927-Simon Commission

1928-Nehru Report was submitted

1928-Lala Lajpat Rai died of lathi charges while demonstrating against the Simon Commission
1929-Congress Session at Lahore and Poorna Swaraj Resolution

1930-Civil Disobedient Movement was launched 1933-Civil Disobedience Movement was


suspended 1934-Civil

Disobedient Movement was withdrawn

1939-Forward Bloc was founded by Subhas Chandra Bose 22nd December 1939-Day of resignation
of Congress Ministries celebrated as a day of deliverance by Muslim League

1940-August Offer was made by Lord Linlithgow

1942-Tokyo Conference and formation of Indian National Army 1942-Cripps Mission

1942-Quit India Resolution/Movement, Revolt of 1942 1945-Lord Wavell's Plan

1945-46-Cabinet Mission Plan

30th July 1946-Direct Action Resolution was passed by Muslim League

16th August 1946-Day of Protest for Muslim League known as Direct Action Day 26th October
1946-Interim Government was formed

20th February 1947- Announced that British Government would leave Indian by June 1948 1947-
Mountbatten Plan

1947-Indian Independence Act

14th August 1947- Independence Day for Pakistan; Formation of Pakistan 15th August 1947-
Independence Day for India

26th January 1950 - Republic Day for India


World History:

1914 to 1918-First World War 1871-Franco-Prussian War 1905-Moroccan Crisis

1906 to 1909-Bosnian Crisis also known as Balkan Tension

28th June 1914-Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo 1917-US


entered the war

1917-Russian Revolution

28th June 1919-Treaty of Versailles was signed in France 1920-League of Nations was established
1919-Hitler joined NSDAP, ie. National Socialist Party 1933-Hitler formed the first Nazi
government

1934-Hitler adopted the title of Fuehrer Weimer Republic ended and Third Reich of Hitler began
1936-Anti- Comintern Pact between Japan and Germany

1937 to 1939-Second World War

1938-Hitler invaded Austria and annexed it into the German empire; Anschluss declared

1938-Anglo-Italian Pact between Britain and Italy, also known as 'a gentleman's pact' was signed
1938 - Munich

Pact signed by Italy, Germany, Britain, France

1939-Invasion of Poland, Nazi-Soviet Aggression Pact was signed 1940-Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

7th December 1941-Attack on Pearl Harbor 1945-Mussolini shot to death

7th May 1945-German forces surrendered

6th and 9th August 1945-Bombing at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

2nd September 1945- Japanese surrendered


1947-Marshall Plan 1947-Truman doctrine

1945 to 1991-92-Cold War

1949-NATO was signed

1955-Warsaw Pact was signed

3rd October 1990-East Germany joined West Germany

1941-London Declaration (U.N.)

1941-Atlantic Charter was issued 1942-Washington Declaration 1943-Moscow Declaration

1944-Dumbarton Oaks Conference 1945-Conference at Yalta

24th October 1945-Charter of the United Nations Organization came into force October 24th-U.N.
Day

1946-United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was created

1946-United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was set up Health
Organization (WHO) was set up 7th April 1948- World April 7th-World Health Day

10th December 1948-Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the U.N. General
Assembly December 10th-Human Rights Day

1993-India set up its Human Rights Commission

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