20th Century
Year | Date | Event |
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1900 | 22 October | Ashfaqulla Khan is born (to 1927) |
1902 | Anushilan Samiti, organized revolutionary association formed. | |
1903 | British Expedition to Tibet | |
Delhi Durbar Second Time. | ||
1905 | Partition of Bengal | |
1906 | Jugantar formed. | |
30 December | Muslim League formed in Dacca. | |
1909 | Morley-Minto Reforms | |
1911 | Cancelation of Partition of Bengal | |
Delhi Durbar Third Time | ||
1912 | Delhi conspiracy case | |
1913 | Gadar Party formed. | |
1914 | Hindu–German Conspiracy | |
1915 | Ghadar conspiracy | |
Provisional Government of India formed in Kabul. | ||
Gandhiji Return to India. | ||
1916 | Lucknow Pact | |
1917 | Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha | |
1919 | Jallianwala Bagh massacre | |
Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms | ||
Rowlatt Act | ||
1920 | Non-cooperation movementKhilafat Movement | |
1924 | Hindustan Socialist Republican Association formed. | |
1925 | Kakori conspiracy | |
1927 | November | Simon Commission |
1928 | Bardoli Satyagraha | |
1929 | Central Assembly Bombed by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt. | |
Purna Swaraj resolution. | ||
1930 | Salt Satyagraha | |
Round Table Conferences (India) First | ||
civil disobedience movement | ||
1931 | March | Gandhi–Irwin Pact |
23 March | Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev Martyred | |
September–December | Round Table Conferences (India) Second | |
1932 | 24 September | Poona Pact |
4 August | Communal Award | |
November–December | Round Table Conferences (India) Third | |
1935 | August | Government of India Act 1935 |
1939 | All India Forward Bloc Established by Subhas Chandra Bose | |
1940 | Lahore Resolution | |
August offer 1940 | ||
1942 | Quit India Movement | |
Late March | Cripps' mission | |
August | Indian National Army Established by Subhas Chandra Bose | |
1943 | Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, the Provisional Government of Free India formed by Netaji. | |
1944 | Subhas Chandra Bose calls Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation. | |
1946 | February | Royal Indian Navy Mutiny |
March | Cabinet Mission | |
16 August | Direct Action Day/Great Calcutta Killings | |
1947 | July | Indian Independence Act 1947 by British Raj. |
Partition of India | ||
Freedom from British Raj. | ||
Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal bloodshed after partition. (to 1948) | ||
1948 | 30 January | Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by a right wing Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse. |
War with Pakistan over disputed territory of Kashmir. | ||
Telangana and other princely states integrated in Indian union | ||
1950 | 26 January | Republic Day (India) |
1951 | Congress Party wins first general elections under leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. (to 1952) | |
1962 | India loses brief border war with China. | |
India won Diu, Daman and Goa from Portuguese India. | ||
1964 | Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. | |
1965 | Second war with Pakistan over Kashmir. | |
1966 | Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister. | |
1971 | Third war with Pakistan over creation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan. | |
Twenty-year treaty of friendship signed with Soviet Union. | ||
1974 | India explodes first nuclear device in underground test. | |
1975 | Indira Gandhi declares state of emergency after being found guilty of electoral malpractice. | |
Nearly 1,000 political opponents imprisoned and programme of compulsory birth control introduced. (to 1977) | ||
1977 | Indira Gandhi's Congress Party loses general elections. Janata Party comes to power.Communist party of India comes into power in West Bengal. | |
1979 | Janata Party Splits. Chaudhary Charan Singh becomes Prime Minister. | |
1980 | Indira Gandhi returns to power heading Congress party splinter group, Congress (Indira). | |
1983 | N. T. Rama Rao NTR's 9 month old Telugu Desam Comes in to Power in AP marks a new Challenger post Loknayak Jayprakash Nararayan against Indira | |
1984 | Troops storm Golden Temple - Sikhs' most holy shrine - to flush out Sikh militants pressing for self-rule. | |
Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikh bodyguards, following which her son, Rajiv, takes over. | ||
1987 | India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. | |
1989 | Falling public support leads to Congress defeat in general election. | |
1989 | National Front (India) Headed by N. T. Rama Rao and led by Janata party formed and stormed in to power with outside support from BJP and CPI. | |
1990 | Muslim separatist groups begin campaign of violence in Kashmir. | |
1991 | Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers. | |
Economic reform programme begun by Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao. | ||
1992 | Hindu extremists demolish mosque in Ayodhya, triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence. | |
1992 | May | Over 200 people die in Cuttack in Orissa, after drinking illegally brewed liquor in the 1992 Orissa liquor deaths incident. |
1996 | Congress suffers worst ever electoral defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP emerges as largest single party. | |
1996 | August | The Amarnath Yatra tragedy in which at least 194 pilgrims are reported to have frozen to death in northern Kashmir after being stranded by violent rain and snow storms. |
1998 | BJP forms coalition government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. | |
India carries out nuclear tests, leading to widespread international condemnation. | ||
1999 | February | Vajpayee makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to meet Premier Nawaz Sharif and to sign bilateral Lahore peace declaration. |
May | Tension in Kashmir leads to brief war with Pakistan-backed forces in the icy heights around Kargil in Indian-held Kashmir. | |
October | Cyclone devastates eastern state of Orissa, leaving at least 10,000 dead. | |
2000 | US President Bill Clinton makes a groundbreaking visit to improve ties. | |
May | India marks the birth of its billionth citizen. |
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