India

By chuckinglish123
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    Indian colonialism

  • The British arrive at India

  • East India company rule India for 100 years

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    East India company rule

  • Treaty of Mandasor is signed between the British and the Marathas.

  • Mumbai Samachar, a Gujarati daily newspaper, is established.

  • Indian rebellion (also known as the Sepoy Mutiny) or The First War Of Indian Independence, widespread uprising in northern and central India against the rule of the British East India Company.

  • The British raj

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    The British raj

  • The United Service Institution (USI) was founded

  • The Prince of Wales visits British India.

  • Queen Victoria is made the Empress of India. This led to great celebrations in Darbars in India while millions of Indians perished in the famine that was going on then.

  • Lord Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India.

  • Partition of Bengal

  • Kangra earthquake kills 20,000

  • British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.

  • Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

  • Henry Piquet, flying a Humber bi-plane, carried mail from Allahabad to Naini junction which was the first flight in India

  • At the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in the Punjab, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Sikhs

  • HRH Prince of Wales Edward VIII inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India marking a capitulation of the British Empire to growing pressure for Indianization of the Officer Cadre of the British Indian Army.

  • Communist Party of India is founded at Kanpur.

  • The commission is formed to consider further steps toward self-rule of India. No Indian member is included

  • Mahatma Gandhi made his first and last visit to Ceylon.

  • Mahatma Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt - more will join them during the Salt March that ends on 5 April

  • In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.

  • New Delhi becomes the capital of India.

  • Independent India leaders Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev are hanged by the British Government

  • Mahatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike in Poona prison

  • There is an 8.4 earthquake in India and Nepal in which more than 10,000 people die.

  • Government of India Act introduced

  • In Bombay, Mahatma Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.

  • Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which led to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India.

  • Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that British troops leave India.

  • India becomes independant

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    India becomes independant

  • Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist.

  • Congress Party wins first general elections under leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru.