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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\u00a0RRB NTPC<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0RRB JE<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0SSC CGL<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0SSC CPO<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0SBI PO<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0SBI Clerk<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0LIC AAO<\/a><\/span>, etc. In this blog – Modern History Important Dates<\/strong> we will be discussing the events that occurred in the past and will also list Important dates and events of Gandhi Era.<\/p>\n

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Modern History Important Dates<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Find the List of Modern History Important Dates and Events Occurred<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nEvents<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1765<\/td>\nClive was appointed Company’s Governor in India.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1780<\/td>\nBirth of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1784<\/td>\nPitt\u2019s India Act.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1790-92<\/td>\nThird Anglo-Mysore War.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1793<\/td>\nThe Permanent Settlement of Bengal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1799<\/td>\nFourth Anglo-Mysore War and\u00a0 Death of Tipu Sultan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1802<\/td>\nTreaty of Bassein.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1809<\/td>\nTreaty of Amritsar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1829<\/td>\nPractice of Sati prohibited.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1830<\/td>\nRaja Rammohan Roy visits England.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1833<\/td>\nRaja Rammohan Roy Died at Bristol, England.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1839<\/td>\nDeath of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1853<\/td>\nFirst Railway line opened between Bombay and Thane and a Telegraph line in Calcutta.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1857<\/td>\n\u00a0First War of Independence taken place in India.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>\nBirth of Rabindranath Tagore.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1869<\/td>\nBirth of Mahatma Gandhi.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1885<\/td>\nFoundation of Indian National Congress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1889<\/td>\nBirth of Jawaharlal Nehru.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1897<\/td>\nBirth of Subhash Chandra Bose.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1903<\/td>\nTibet Expedition (Young Husband delegation).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1905<\/td>\nPartition of Bengal by Lord Curzon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1906<\/td>\nFoundation of Muslim League laid down by Salimullah at Dhaka.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1911<\/td>\nDelhi Darbar, King and Queen visited India and\u00a0 Delhi becomes the capital of India.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1914<\/td>\nWorld War I began.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1916<\/td>\nLucknow Pact signed between Congress and Muslim League.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1918<\/td>\nWorld War I ended.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1919<\/td>\nMontague-Chelmsford Reforms introduced, Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1920<\/td>\nKhilafat Movement launched.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1927<\/td>\nBoycott of Simon Commission.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1928<\/td>\nDeath of Lala Lajpat Rai.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1929<\/td>\nResolution of ‘Poorna Swaraj’ (complete independence) was passed at the Lahore Session of Indian National Congress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1930<\/td>\nDandi March by Mahatma Gandhi (April 6, 1930), Civil disobedience movement launched.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931<\/td>\nGandhi-Irwin Pact.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1935<\/td>\nGovernment of India Act passed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1937<\/td>\nProvincial Autonomy, ‘Congress forms ministries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1939<\/td>\nWorld War II begins (September 3).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/td>\nEscape of Subhash Chandra Bose from India, Death of Rabindranath Tagore.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1942<\/td>\nCripps Mission arrived in India, Quit India movement launched on August 8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1943-44<\/td>\nBengal famine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1945<\/td>\nTrial of Indian National Army at Red Fort; Shimla Conference; World War II ended.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946<\/td>\nBritish Cabinet Mission visited India, Interim government formed at the Centre.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947<\/td>\nDivision of India; India & Pakistan became separate independent dominions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Modern History Important Dates: Gandhi Era<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Find the full list of Modern History Important Dates and Events.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Important Years<\/strong><\/td>\nEvents<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1893<\/td>\nDeparture of Gandhi to South Africa.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1894<\/td>\nFoundation of Natal Indian Congress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1899<\/td>\nFoundation of Indian Ambulance Core during Boer Wars.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1904<\/td>\nFoundation of Indian Opinion (magazine) and Phoenix Farm, at Phoenix, near Durban.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1906<\/td>\nFirst Civil Disobedience Movement (Satyagraha) against Asiatic Ordinance in Transvaal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1907<\/td>\nSatyagraha against Compulsory Registration and Passes for Asians (The Black Act) in Transvaal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1908<\/td>\nTrial and imprisonment-Johannesburg Jail (First Jail Term).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1910<\/td>\nFoundation of Tolstoy Farm (Later-Gandhi Ashrama), near Johannesburg.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1913<\/td>\nSatyagraha against derecognition of non-Christian marriages in Cape Town.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1914<\/td>\nAwarded Kaisar-i-Hind for raising an Indian Ambulance Core during Boer wars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1915<\/td>\nArrived 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;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1916<\/td>\nAbstain from active politics (though he attended Lucknow session of INC held in 26\u201330 December, 1916, where Raj Kumar Shukla, a cultivator from Bihar, requested him to come to Champaran.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1917<\/td>\nGandhi 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1918<\/td>\nIn 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1919<\/td>\nGandhi 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).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1920-22<\/td>\nGandhi leads the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement (August 1, 1920\u2013February 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1924<\/td>\nBelgaum (Karnataka) session of INC\u2013for the first and the last time Gandhi was elected the president of the Congress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1925\u201327<\/td>\nGandhi retires from active politics for the first time and devotes himself to \u2018constructive program\u2019 of the Congress; Gandhi resumes active politics in 1927.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1930\u201334<\/td>\nGandhi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement with his Dandi march\/Salt Satyagraha (First Phase: March 12, 1930\u2013March 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).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1934\u201339<\/td>\nSets up Sevagram (Vardha Ashram).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1940\u201341<\/td>\nGandhi launches Individual Satyagraha Movement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1942<\/td>\nCall to Quit India Movement for which Gandhi raised the slogan, \u2018Do or Die\u2019 (Either free India or die in the attempt), Gandhi and all Congress leaders arrested (August 9, 1942).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1942\u201344<\/td>\nGandhi 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\u2019s last prison term.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946<\/td>\nDeeply distressed by theory of communal violence, as a result, Muslim League\u2019s Direct Action call, Gandhi traveled to Noakhali (East Bengal-now Bangladesh) and later on to Calcutta to restore communal peace.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947<\/td>\nGandhi, 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\u2019s Independence (August 15, 1947). Gandhi returns to Delhi (September 1947).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1948<\/td>\nGandhi 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).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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