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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 ills ten million people in Bengal and the !ast India "ompany does nothing to help them

1773 AD:#arren $astings% governor of Bengal establishes a monopoly on the sale of opium& 'egulating Act

passed by the British&

1793 AD:Permanent Settlement of Bengal

1799 AD:British defeat (ipu Sultan

1829 AD:Prohibition of Sati by law

1831 AD:Administration of Mysore is taen over by !ast India "ompany

1848 AD:)ord *alhousie becomes the +overnor-+eneral of India

1853 AD:'ailway% postal services , telegraph line introduced in India

1857 AD:irst #ar of Indian Independence also nown as 'evolt of ./01 or Sepoy Mutiny

1858 AD:British "rown officially taes over the Indian +overnment

1877 AD:2ueen of !ngland is proclaimed as the !mpress of India

1885 AD:irst meeting of the Indian 3ational "ongress1899 AD:)ord "ur4on becomes +overnor-+eneral and 5iceroy of India

1905 AD:(he irst Partition of Bengal taes place

1906 AD:Muslim )eague is formed

1912 AD:(he Imperial capital shifted to *elhi from "alcutta

1919 AD:(he cruel 6allianwalla Bagh massacre taes place due to protests against the 'owlatt Act

1920 AD:3on-cooperation Movement launched

1922 AD:"hauri-"haura violence taes place due to "ivil *isobedience Movement

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

1930 AD:Salt Satyagraha is launched as an agitation against salt tax& irst 'ound (able "onference taes place

1931 AD:Second 'ound (able "onference taes place and Irwin-+andhi Pact is signed

1934 AD:"ivil *isobedience Movement is called off

1942 AD:"ripps Mission is formed7 2uit India Movement is launched7 Indian 3ational Army is formed&

3rd June 1947 AD:)ord Mountbatten8s plan for partition of India comes into light

15th Augut 1947 AD:Partition of India and Independence from the British rule