Its time we remember events of Indian Freedom Struggle 1857 to 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. |
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)
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1937 | Wardha scheme of basic education
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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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