History of Pakistan 1857-1947
1857 Mutiny against the
British
1858 Government Of India Act
1858
1861 Indian Council Act 1861
1885 Indian National Congress
is founded by A.O. Hume
1905 Partition of Bengal
announced
1906 Muslim League was founded
at Decca on 31st December.
1907 Seditious meeting act 1907
1908 Khudiram Bose was executed
on 30th April.
1908 Tilak was sentenced to six
years on charges of sedition on 22nd July.
1909 Minto-Morley Reforms of Indian
Councils Act – 21st May
1910 Indian press act 1910
1911 Delhi durbar held.
Partition of Bengal is cancelled.
1911 New Delhi established as
the new capital of India
1912 A Bomb was thrown on Lord
Hardinge on his state entry into Delhi on 23rd December.
1914 The Ghadar Party was
formed at San Francisco on 1st November
1914 Tilak was released from
jail on 16th June.
1914 Outbreak of the 1st World
War 4th August
1914 Komagatamaru ship reaches
Budge Budge (Calcutta port) on 29the September.
1915 Mahatma Gandhi arrived in
India on 9th Jan
1915 Gopal Krishna Gokhale died
on 19th February.
1916 Tilak founded Indian Home
Rule League with its headquarters at Poona on 28th April.
1916 Annie Besant started
another Home Rule League on 25th September.
1917 Mahatma Gandhi launches
the Champaran campaign in Bihar to focus attention on the grievances of indigo
planters in April
1917 The Secretary of State for
India, Montague, declares that the goal of the British government in India is
introduction of Responsible Government on 20th August.
1918 Beginning of trade union
movement in India.
1919 Rowlatt Bill introduced on
Feb 16, 1919.
1919 The Jallianwala Bagh
tragedy took place on 13th April in Amritsar.
1919 The House of Commons
passes the Montague Chelmsford Reforms or the Government of India Act, 1919 on
5th December. The new reforms under this Act came into operation in 1921.
1920 First meeting of the All
India Trade Union Congress, (under Narain Malhar Joshi).
1920 The Indian National
Congress (INC) adopts the Non-Co-operation Resolution in December.
1920-22 Mahatma Gandhi
suspends Non-Co-operation Movement on Feb 12 after the violent incidents at
Chauri Chaura.
1922 Moplah rebellion on the
Malabar coast in August.
1923 Swaraj Party was formed by
Motilal Nehru and others on 1st January.
1924 The Communist Party of
India starts its activities at Kanpur.
1925 The Kakori Train
Conspiracy case in August
1927 The British Prime Minister
appoints Simon Commission to suggest future constitutional reforms in India.
1928 Simon Commission arrives
in Bombay on Feb 3. An all-India hartal is called. Lala Lajpat Rai assaulted by
police at Lahore.
1928 Nehru Report recommends
principles for the new Constitution of India. All parties conference considers
the Nehru Report, Aug 28-31, 1928.
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1928 Lala Lajpat Rai died on
17th November due to injuries.
1929 Sarda Act passed: prohibs
marriage of girls below 14 and boys below 18 years of age.
1929 All Parties Muslim
Conference formulates the 'Fourteen Points' under the leadership of Jinnah on
9th March.
1929 Bhagat Singh and
Batukeshwari Dutt throw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assen on 8th April.
1929 Lord Irwin's announced
that the goal of British policy in India was the grant of the Dominion status
on 31st October.
1929 The Lahore session of the
INC adopts the goal of complete independence (poorna swarajya) for India;
Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the tricolour on the banks of the Ravi at Lahore on
31st December.
1930 First Independence Day
observed on 26th January.
1930 The Working Committee of
the INC meets at Sabarmati and passes the Civil Disobedience resolution on 14th
February.
1930 Mahatma Gandhi launches
the Civil Disobedience movement with his epic Dandi Mar (Mar 12 to Apr 6).
First phase of the Civil Disobedience movement: Mar 12, 1930 to Mar 5, 1931.
1930 First Round Table
Conference begins in London to consider the report of the Simon Commission on
30th November.
1931 On 5th March, the Gandhi
lrwin pact was signed and the Civil Disobedience movement was suspended.
1931 Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and
Rajguru were executed on 23rd March.
1931 Second Round Table
Conference took place on 7th September.
1931 Gandhiji returns from
London after the deadlock in llnd RTC on 28th December. Launches Civil
Disobedience Movement. The INC declared illegal.
1932 Gandhiji was arrested and
imprisoned without trial on 4th January.
1932 British Prime Minister
Ramsay Macdonald announced the infamous "Communal Award" on 16th
August.
1932 Gandhiji in jail, begins
his epic "fast unto death" against the Communal Award on 20th
September and ends the fast on 26th of the same month after the Poona Pact.
1932 The Third Round Table
Conference begins in London (Nov 17 to Dec 24)
1933 Gandhiji released from
prison as he begins fast for self-purification on 9th May. INC suspends Civil
Disobedience movement but authorizes Satyagraha by individuals.
1934 Gandhiji withdraws from
active politics and devotes himself to constructive programmes (1934-39).
1935 The Government of India
Act 1935 was passed on 4th August
1937 Elections held in India
under the Act of 1935 (Feb 1937). The INC contests election and forms
ministries in several provinces (Jul 1937)
1937 Wardha scheme of basic education
1938 Haripura session of INC
was held on 19th February. Subhash Chandra Boss was elected Congress president
on the 20th of February.
1939 Tripuri session of the INC
was conducted from the 10th to the 12th of March.
1939 Subhash Chandra Bose
resigns as the president of the INC in April.
1939 Second World War (Sep 1).
Great Britain declares war on Germany on 3rd September; the Viceroy declares
that India too is at war.
1939 Between 27th October to
5th November, the Congress ministries in the provinces resign in protest
against the war policy of the British government.
1939 The Muslim League observes
the resignation of the Congress ministries as ‘Deliverance Day’ on 22nd
December.
1940 Lahore session of ihe
Muslim League passes the Pakistan Resolution in March
1940 Viceroy Linlithgow
announces-August Offer on 10th of August.
1940 Congress Working Committee
rejects the 'August Offer' between 18th to the 22nd of August.
1940 Congress launches
Individual Satyagraha movement on 17th October.
1941 Subhash Chandra Bose
escapes from India on 17 January; arrives in Berlin (Mar 28).
1942 Churchill announces the
Cripps Mission on 11th of March
1942 The INC meets in Bombay;
adopts 'Quit India' resolution on 7th & 8th August.
1942 Gandhiji and other
Congress leaders were arrested on 9th August
1942 Quit India movement begins
on 11th of August; the Great Aug Uprising.
1942 Subhash Chandra Bose
established the Indian National Army 'Azad Hind Fauj' on 1st September.
1943 Subhash Chandra Bose
proclaims the formation of the Provisonal Government of Free India on 21st
October.
1943 Karachi session of the
Muslim League adopts the slogan Divide arc in December.
1944 Wavell calls Simla
Conference in a bid to form the Executive Council at Indian political leaders
on 25th January.
1946 Mutiny of the Indian naval
ratings in Bombay.
1946 Cabinet Mission arrives in
New Delhi (Mar 14);British Prime Minister Attlee announces Cabinet Mission ro
propose new solution to the Indian deadlock on 15th March; ; issues proposal
(May 16).
1946 Jawaharlal Nehru takes
over as Congress president on 6th July.
1946 Wavell invites Nehru to
form an interim government on 6th August; Interim Government takes office (Sep
2).
1946 First session of the
Constituent Assembly of India starts on 9th December. Muslim League boycotts
it.
1947 On 20th February, British
Prime Minister Attlee declares that the British government would leave India
not later than Jun 1948.
1947 Lord Mountbatten, the last
British Viceroy and Governor General of India, sworn in on 24th March
1947 Mountbatten Plan was made
on 3rd June for the partition of India and the announcement was made on June
4th that transfer to power will take place on August 15th
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