Modern History: Important Dates and Events

History is the combined study of ancient, medieval and modern periods. Prominent historical events have shaped up our current situations in a very broadway. History is an important part of the General Awareness Section and covers a good number of questions in various bank and government exams like RRB NTPC, RRB JE, SSC CGL, SSC CPO, SBI PO, SBI Clerk, LIC AAO, etc. In this blog – Modern History Important Dates we will be discussing the events that occurred in the past and will also list Important dates and events of Gandhi Era.

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Modern History Important Dates

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Year	Events
1765	Clive was appointed Company’s Governor in India.
1780	Birth of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
1784	Pitt’s India Act.
1790-92	Third Anglo-Mysore War.
1793	The Permanent Settlement of Bengal.
1799	Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and  Death of Tipu Sultan.
1802	Treaty of Bassein.
1809	Treaty of Amritsar.
1829	Practice of Sati prohibited.
1830	Raja Rammohan Roy visits England.
1833	Raja Rammohan Roy Died at Bristol, England.
1839	Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
1853	First Railway line opened between Bombay and Thane and a Telegraph line in Calcutta.
1857	First War of Independence taken place in India.
1861	Birth of Rabindranath Tagore.
1869	Birth of Mahatma Gandhi.
1885	Foundation of Indian National Congress.
1889	Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru.
1897	Birth of Subhash Chandra Bose.
1903	Tibet Expedition (Young Husband delegation).
1905	Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon.
1906	Foundation of Muslim League laid down by Salimullah at Dhaka.
1911	Delhi Darbar, King and Queen visited India and  Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1914	World War I began.
1916	Lucknow Pact signed between Congress and Muslim League.
1918	World War I ended.
1919	Montague-Chelmsford Reforms introduced, Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar.
1920	Khilafat Movement launched.
1927	Boycott of Simon Commission.
1928	Death of Lala Lajpat Rai.
1929	Resolution of ‘Poorna Swaraj’ (complete independence) was passed at the Lahore Session of Indian National Congress.
1930	Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi (April 6, 1930), Civil disobedience movement launched.
1931	Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
1935	Government of India Act passed.
1937	Provincial Autonomy, ‘Congress forms ministries.
1939	World War II begins (September 3).
1941	Escape of Subhash Chandra Bose from India, Death of Rabindranath Tagore.
1942	Cripps Mission arrived in India, Quit India movement launched on August 8.
1943-44	Bengal famine.
1945	Trial of Indian National Army at Red Fort; Shimla Conference; World War II ended.
1946	British Cabinet Mission visited India, Interim government formed at the Centre.
1947	Division of India; India & Pakistan became separate independent dominions.

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Modern History Important Dates: Gandhi Era

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Important Years	Events
1893	Departure of Gandhi to South Africa.
1894	Foundation of Natal Indian Congress.
1899	Foundation of Indian Ambulance Core during Boer Wars.
1904	Foundation of Indian Opinion (magazine) and Phoenix Farm, at Phoenix, near Durban.
1906	First Civil Disobedience Movement (Satyagraha) against Asiatic Ordinance in Transvaal.
1907	Satyagraha against Compulsory Registration and Passes for Asians (The Black Act) in Transvaal.
1908	Trial and imprisonment-Johannesburg Jail (First Jail Term).
1910	Foundation of Tolstoy Farm (Later-Gandhi Ashrama), near Johannesburg.
1913	Satyagraha against derecognition of non-Christian marriages in Cape Town.
1914	Awarded Kaisar-i-Hind for raising an Indian Ambulance Core during Boer wars
1915	Arrived in Bombay (India) on 9 January 1915; Foundation of Satyagraha Ashrama at Kocharab near Ahmedabad (20 May). In 1917, Ashrama shifted at the banks of Sabarmati;
1916	Abstain from active politics (though he attended Lucknow session of INC held in 26–30 December, 1916, where Raj Kumar Shukla, a cultivator from Bihar, requested him to come to Champaran.)
1917	Gandhi entered active politics with the Champaran campaign to redress grievances of the cultivators oppressed by Indigo planter of Bihar (April 1917). Champaran Satyagraha was his first Civil Disobedience Movement in India.
1918	In February 1918, Gandhi launched the struggle in Ahmedabad which involved industrial workers. Hunger strike as a weapon was used for the first time by Gandhi during Ahmedabad’s struggle. In March 1918, Gandhi worked for peasants of Kheda in Gujarat who were facing difficulties in paying the rent owing to the failure of crops. Kheda Satyagraha was his first Non-cooperation Movement.
1919	Gandhi gave a call for Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act on April 6, 1919, and took the command of the nationalist movement for the first time (First all-India Political Movement), Gandhi returns Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal as a protest against Jallianwala Bagh massacre-April 13, 1919; The All India Khilafat Conference elected Gandhi as its president (November 1919, Delhi).
1920-22	Gandhi leads the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement (August 1, 1920–February 1922), Gandhi calls off Movement (Feb. 12, 1922), after the violent incident at Chauri-Chaura on February 5, 1922. Non-Co-operation Movement was the First mass-based politics under Gandhi.
1924	Belgaum (Karnataka) session of INC–for the first and the last time Gandhi was elected the president of the Congress.
1925–27	Gandhi retires from active politics for the first time and devotes himself to ‘constructive program’ of the Congress; Gandhi resumes active politics in 1927.
1930–34	Gandhi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement with his Dandi march/Salt Satyagraha (First Phase: March 12, 1930–March 5, 1931; Gandhi-Irwin Pact: March 5, 1931; Gandhi attends the Second Round Table Conference in London as sole representative of the Congress: September 7-December. 1, 1931; Second Phase: January 3, 1932-April 17, 1934).
1934–39	Sets up Sevagram (Vardha Ashram).
1940–41	Gandhi launches Individual Satyagraha Movement.
1942	Call to Quit India Movement for which Gandhi raised the slogan, ‘Do or Die’ (Either free India or die in the attempt), Gandhi and all Congress leaders arrested (August 9, 1942).
1942–44	Gandhi kept in detention at the Aga Khan Palace, near Pune (August 9, 1942-May, 1944). Gandhi lost his wife Kasturba (February 22, 1944) and private secretary Mahadev Desai; this was Gandhi’s last prison term.
1946	Deeply distressed by theory of communal violence, as a result, Muslim League’s Direct Action call, Gandhi traveled to Noakhali (East Bengal-now Bangladesh) and later on to Calcutta to restore communal peace.
1947	Gandhi, deeply distressed by the Mountbatten Plan/Partition Plan (June 3, 1947), while staying in Calcutta to restore communal violence, observes complete silence on the dawn of India’s Independence (August 15, 1947). Gandhi returns to Delhi (September 1947).
1948	Gandhi was shot dead by Nathu Ram Godse, a member of RSS, while on his way to the evening prayer meeting at Birla House, New Delhi (January 30, 1948).

 

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