1757 – Battle of Plassey, British political rule established in India by Lord Clive.
1761 – Third Battle of Panipat
1764 – Battle of Buxar
1765 – Clive appointed Governor of the Company in India
1767-69 – First Anglo-Mysore War
1780 – Birth of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
1780-84 – Second Anglo-Mysore War
1784 – Pitts India Act
1790-92 – Third Anglo-Mysore War
1793 – Permanent settlement of Bengal
1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, death of Tipu Sultan
1802 – Treaty of Bassein
1809 – Treaty of Amritsar
1829 – The practice of conspiracy was banned
1830 – Raja Rammohan Roy went to England
1833 – Death of Raja Rammohan Roy in Bristol, England
1839 – Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
1839-42 – First Anglo-Afghan War
1845-46 – First Anglo-Sikh War
1852 – Second Anglo-Burmese War
1853 – First railway line opened between Mumbai and Thane and a telegraph line at Calcutta.
1857 – Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence
1861 – Birth of Rabindranath Tagore
1869 – Birth of Mahatma Gandhi
1885 – Foundation of Indian National Congress
1889 – Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru
1897 – Subhash Chandra Bose was born
1903 – Expedition to Tibet (Young Pati Delegation)
1905 – Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon
1906 – Muslim League (Nawab of Dhaka) founded by Salimullah in Dhaka.
1911 – Delhi Durbar, visit of King and Queen to India; Delhi became the capital of India
1914 – World War I begins
1916 – Lucknow Pact signed by Muslim League and Congress
1918 – World War I ends
1919 – Montague-Chelmsford reforms introduced, Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar
1920 – Khilabat movement was launched
1927 – Simon Commission ignored, broadcasting begins in India
1928 – Death of Lala Lajpati Rai
1929 – The ‘Poorna Swaraj’ (Complete Freedom) resolution was passed at the Lahore Congress Conference.
1930 – Non-Cooperation Movement launched, Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi (April 6, 1930)
1931 – Gandhi-Irvine Pact
1935 – Government of India Act
1937 – Provincial Autonomy, ‘Congress Ministries’ established
1939 – World War II begins (September 3)
1941 – Subhash Chandra Bose escapes from India, death of Rabindranath Tagore.
1942 – Arrival of Cripps Mission in India, start of Quit White Movement (August 8)
1943-44 – SC Bose forms interim government for independent India and Indian National Army in Singapore; Famine in Bengal
1945 – Indian National Army raid on Red Fort; Shimla Conference; World War II ended
1946 – British Cabinet Mission visits India; Formation of Interim Government at Centre
1947 – Partition of India; India and Pakistan became separate independent colonies
