883
Kind Alfred the Great sends Sighelm on a pilgramige to India
1497
Vasco de Gama reaches the spice port of Calicut on the coast of India
1600
Queen Elizabeth grants a charter to the East India Company
1600
1st East India Company ship sails
1661
Charles II recieves Bombay from Catherine of Braganza as her dowry.
1757
Battle of Plassey: Robert Clive and the British defeat Siraj-ud-daulah
1760
Battle of Wandiwash: The British defeat the French
1761
Third battle of Panipat: Ahrned Shah Abdali defeats the Marathas; Accession of Madhava Rao Peshwa; Rise of Hyder Ali
1764
Battle of Buxar: The British defeat Mir Kasim
1765
The British get Diwani Rights in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa
1767-1769
First Mysore War: The British conclude a humiliating peace pact with Hyder Ali
1772
Death of Madhava Rao Peshwa; Warren Hastings appointed as Governor of Bengal
1773
The Regulating Act passed by the British Parliament
1774
Warren Hastings appointed as Governor-General
1775-1782
The First Anglo-Maratha war
1780-1784
Second Mysore War: The British defeat Hyder Ali
1784
Pitt's India Act
1790-1792
Third Mysore War hetween the British and Tipu
1793
Permanent Settlement of Bengal
1794
Death of Mahadaji Sindhia
1799
Fourth Mysore War: The British defeat Tipu; Death of Tipu; Partition of Mysore
1802
Treaty of Bassein
1803-1805
The Second Anglo-Maratha war: The British defeat the Marathas at Assaye:
Treaty of Amritsar
1814-1816
The Anglo-Gurkha war
1817-1818
The Pindari war
1817-1819
The last Anglo-Maratha war: Marathas fmally crushed by the British
1824-1826
The First Burmese war
1829
Prohibition of Sati
1829-1837
Suppression of Thuggee
1831
Raja of Mysore deposed and its administration taken over by East India Company
1833
Renewal of Company's Charter; Abolition of company's trading rights
1835
Education Resolution
1838
Tripartite treaty between Shah Shuja, Ranjit Singh and the British
1839-1842
First Afghan war
1843
Gwalior war
1845-1846
First Anglo-Sikh war
1848
Lord Dalhousie becomes the Governor-General
1848-1849
Second Anglo-Sikh war: (Rise of Sikh Power) British annex Punjab as Sikhsare defeated
1852
Second Anglo-Burmese war
1853
Railway opened from Bombay to Thane; Telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra
1857
First Independence: The Sepoy Mutiny
1858
British Crown takes over the Indian Government. The British Raj at its height is 1857-1905
1868
Punjab Tenancy Act; Railway opened from Ambala to Delhi
1877
Delhi Durbar: The Queen of England proclaimed Empress of India
1878
Vernacular Press Act
1881
Factory Act; Rendition of Mysore
1885
First meeting of the Indian National Congress; Bengal Tenancy Act
1891
Indian Factory Act
1892
Indian Councils Act to regulate Indian administration
1897
Plague in Bombay; Famine Commission
1899
Lord Curzon becomes Governor-General and Viceroy
1905
The First Partition of Bengal
1906
Formation of Muslim League; Congress declaration regarding Swaraj
1908
Newspaper Act
1911
Delhi Durbar; Partition of Bengal modified to create the Presidency of Bengal
1916
Home Rule League founded; Foundation of Women's University at Poona
1919
Rowlatt Act evokes protests; Jalianwalla Bagh massacre; The Montague-Chehnsford Reforms offer limited autonomy
Gandhian Era begins
1920
The Khilafat Movement started; Mahatma Gandhi leads the Congress; Non-c~operation Movement
1921
Moplah (Muslim) rebellion in Malabar; Census of India
1922
Civil Disobedience Movement; Chauri-Chaura violence leads to Gandhi suspending movement
1923
Swarajists in Indian Councils; Certification of Salt Tax; Hindu-Muslim riots
1925
Reforms Enquiry committee Report
1929
Lord Irwin promises Dominion Status for India; Trade Union split; Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the National Flag at Lahore
1930
Civil Disobedience movement continues; Salt Satyagraha: Gandhi's Dandi March; First Round Table Conference
1931
Second Round Table Conference; Irwin-Gandhi Pact; Census of India
1932
Suppression of the Congress movement; Third Round Table Conference; The Communal Award; Poona Pact
1933
Publication of White Paper on Indian reforms
1934
Civil Disobedience Movement called off Bihar Earthquake
1935
Government of India Act
1937
Inauguration of Provincial Autonomy; Congress ministries formed in a majority
of Indian provinces
1939
Political deadlock in India as Congress ministries resign
1942
Cripps Mission to India; Congress adopts Quit India Resolution; Congress leaders arrested; Subbash Chandra Bose forms Indian National Army
1944
Gandhi-Jinnah Talks break down on Pakistan issue
1945
First trial of the Indian Army men opened
1946
Mutiny in Royal Indian Navy; Cabinet Mission's plan announced; Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government; Interim Government formed; Constituent Assembly's first meeting
3 June 1947
Announcement of Lord Mountbatten's plan for partition of India
15 Aug 1947
Partition of India and Independence
Political Aspects Economic Aspects Social Aspects
R.K. Narayan Salman Rushdie E.M. Forester
