Modern India History

During the modern late 16th and the 17th Centuries, Coming of the Europeans, East India Company. India’s freedom struggle the European trading companies in India competed with each other ferociously. By the last quarter of the 18th Century the English had outdone all others and established themselves as the dominant power in India.

Modern India Timeline

1751 AD: Britain becomes the leading colonial power in India

1757 AD: British defeat Siraj-ud-daulah at the Battle of Plassey

1761 AD: Marathas rule over most of northern India

 1764 AD: Britain expands to Bengal and Bihar

1769 AD: A famine kills ten million people in Bengal and the East India Company does nothing to help them

 1773 AD: Warren Hastings, governor of Bengal establishes a monopoly on the sale of opium. Regulating Act passed by the British.

 1793 AD: Permanent Settlement of Bengal

1799 AD: British defeat Tipu Sultan

1829 AD: Prohibition of Sati by law

1831 AD: Administration of Mysore is taken over by East India Company

1848 AD: Lord Dalhousie becomes the Governor-General of India

 1853 AD: Railway, postal services & telegraph line introduced in India

1857 AD: First War of Indian Independence also known as Revolt of 1857 or Sepoy Mutiny

 1858 AD: British Crown officially takes over the Indian Government

 1877 AD: Queen of England is proclaimed as the Empress of India

 1885 AD: First meeting of the Indian National Congress

 1899 AD: Lord Curzon becomes Governor-General and Viceroy of India

 1905 AD: The First Partition of Bengal takes place

1906 AD: Muslim League is formed

 1912 AD: The Imperial capital shifted to Delhi from Calcutta

1919 AD: The cruel Jallianwalla Bagh massacre takes place due to protests against the Rowlatt Act

1920 AD: Non-cooperation Movement launched

1922 AD: Chauri-Chaura violence takes place due to Civil Disobedience Movement

1928 AD: Simon Commission comes to India and is boycotted by all parties

1930 AD: Salt Satyagraha is launched as an agitation against salt tax. First Round Table Conference takes place

1931 AD: Second Round Table Conference takes place and Irwin-Gandhi Pact is signed

 1934 AD: Civil Disobedience Movement is called off

1942 AD: Cripps Mission is formed; Quit India Movement is launched; Indian National Army is formed. 

1947 AD: Lord Mountbatten's plan for partition of India comes into light 

1947 AD: Partition of India and Independence from the British rule