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India’s Freedom Struggle
| 1885 | Formation of Indian National Congress. First session held at Bombay on 28th December attended by 72 delegates. |
| 1905 | Partition of Bengal announced by Curzon. |
| 1906 | Muslim league founded at Dacca by Aga Khan the Nawab of Dacca and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk, 1st communal Party. |
| 1907 | Congress split at Surat session. |
| 1907 | Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh deported to Mandalay following riots in the canal colony of Punjab. |
| 1908 | Khudiram Bose executed. |
| 1908July 22 | Tilak sentenced to six years imprisonment on charges of sedition. |
| 1909 May 21 | Morley Minto Reforms or the Indian Council Act 1909 announced. |
| 1911 | Capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi. |
| 1912, Dec. 23 | Bomb thrown on Lord Hardinge in Chandini Chowk, Delhi by Rashbehari Bose and Sachindra Sanyal. |
| 1913, No 1 | . Ghadar party formed at San Francisco to organise a rebellion in India to overthrow the British rule. |
| 1914 | First World War started. |
| 1915, Jan | Gandhiji arrives in India. |
| 1916 | Gandhiji founded the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad. |
| 1916, April 28. | Home Rule league founded by Tilak with its headquarters at Poona (Indian home rule league of India). |
| 1916, Sept. 25 | Another Home Rule League statred by Annie Besant. |
| 1916 | Foundation of Banaras Hindu University by Madan Mohan Malaviya, Lucknow pact. |
| 1917, April | Mahatma Gandhi launches the Champaran satyagraha. |
| 1917, Aug. 20 | Montague, the secretary of State for India, declares that the goal of the British government in India is the introductin of responsible government. |
| 1918, March 23 | First All-India Depressed Classes conference was held. |
| 1918, April | Rowlatt (sedition) committee submits its report. Rowlatt Bill introduced on February 16,1919. |
| 1919, April 6 | All India hartal over Rowlatt Bill called by Gandhiji, 1st National agitation. |
| 1919, April 13 | Jallianwala Bagh tragedy and the great Amritsar massacre. |
| 1919, Dec. 25 | Montague Chelmsford Reform or the Government of India Act, 1919 announced. |
| 1920 | First meeting of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) held at Bombay presided over by Lala Lajpat Rai. |
| 1920 Dec. | Indian National Congress (INC) adopts the Non-cooperation resolution. |
| 1922 Feb. 5 | Chauri Chaura incident which led to the suspension of the NonCooperation movement. |
| 1922 | Second Moplah uprising, Malabar coast, Kerala. |
| 1922, May | Vishwa Bharati University started by Rabindra Nath Tagore. |
| 1923,Jan.1 | Swarajist party founded by Motilal Nehru and others. |
| 1925, June 16 | Death of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das. |
| 1925, August | Looting of train near Kakori by revolutionaries & Kakori conspiracy case. |
| 1927, Nov. 8 | Appointment of the Simon Commission. |
| 1928 | Nehru Report for a new constitution of India. |
| 1929, March 9 | All Parties Muslim Conference formulates the “fourteen points” under the leadership of Jinnah. |
| 1929, April 8 | Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt drop bomb in the central legislative Assembly to protest against the Public Safety Bill. |
| 1929, Sep. 13 | Jatin Das dies in jain after 64 days of fast. |
| 1929, Oct. 31• ; . _ ‘ ‘ | Lord Irwin’s announcement that the goal of British policy in India was the grant of dominion status. |
| 1929, Dec. 31 | Lahore session of the Congress under Jawahar Lai Nehru adopts the goal of complete independence (Poorna swaraj) for India. |
| 1930, Jan. 1 | Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the tricolour of India on the banks of Ravi in Lahore. |
| 1930,Jan 26 | First Independence Day observed. |
| 1930, Feb 14 | Working committee of INC meets at Sabarmati and passed the Civil Disobedience resolution. |
| 1930, March 12 | Mahatma Gandhi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement with his epic Dandi march. |
| 1930, Nov. 12 | First Round table conference begins in London to consider the report of Simon Commission for the future constitutional set-up in India. |
| 1931, March 5 | Gandhi Irwin pact signed. Civil Disobedience movement suspended. |
| 1931, March 23 | Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru executed (in Lahore Case). |
| 1931, Sept. 7 | Second Round Table conference begins Mahatma Gandhi arrives in London to attend it. |
| 1932, Aug. 16 | British Prime Minister Ramsay Mac Donald announces the Communal Award giving separate electorate to Harijans. |
| 1932, Sept. 20 | Gandhi’s fast unto death. |
| 1932, Sept 26 | Poona pact signed by which the Harijans get reserved seats in place of separate electorate. |
| 1932, Nov. 17 | Third Round Table Conference begins at London. |
| 1935, Aug. 4 | Government of India Act passed. |
| 1937 | Elections held in India under the Act of 1935. The INC forms ministries in seven provinces. |
| 1938, Feb 19-20 | Haripuran session of the INC. Subhash Chandra Bose elected the congress president. |
| 1939, Mar. 10- IS | Tripuri session of INC. |
| 1939, April | Subhash Chandra Bose resigns the presidentship of the INC. |
| 1939, Sep. 3 | Second world war begins. Viceroy declares that India too is at war. |
| 1939, Nov 5 | Congress ministries in the provinces resign against the war policy of the British government. |
| 1939, Dec. 22 | Muslim League observes the resignation of the congress ministries as Deliverance day. |
| 1940, March | Lahore session of the Muslim league passes the Pakistan Resolution. |
| 1940, Aug. 10 | Viceroy Linlithglow announces the August offer. |
| 1940, Oct. 17 | Congress launches IndividualSatyagraha movement. |
| 1941 | Death of Rabindranath Tagore. |
| 1941, Jan. 17 | Subhash Chandra Bose escapes from India to Germany. |
| 1942, Mprch 11 | Churchill announces the Cripps Mission. |
| 1942, Aug. 8 | INC meets at Bombay and adopts the Quit India resolution. |
| 1942, Aug. 11 | Quit India Movement begins. |
| 1942, Sept. 1 | Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) is formed at Singapore. |
| 1943, Oct. | Subhash Chandra bose takes over the leadership of INA and proclaims the formation of the ‘Provisional Government of free India’ at Singapore. |
| 1943, Dec. | Karachi session of the Muslim League addpts the slogan of ‘Divide and Quit’. |
| 1944, Jun. 25 | Wavell calls Simla conferences in a bid to form the Executive Council of Indian political leaders. |
| 1946 Feb. 1-8 | Rating Mutiny. |
| 1946, March 15 | British Prime Minister Attlee announces the Cabinet Mission. |
| 1946, Aug. 6 | Wavell invites Nehru to form an interim government. |
| 1946, Dec. 9 | First session of the Constituent Assembly of India starts, but it is boycotted by the Muslim League. |
| 1947, Feb. 20 | Brisith Prime Minister Attlee declares that the British government would leave India by June 1948. |
| 1947, March 24 | Loard Mountbatten, last British viceroy and governor general of India is t orn in. |
| 1947, June 3 | Mountbatten Plan for the partition of India is announced. |
| 1947, July 4 | Indian Independence Bill introduced in the House of Commons and passed by the British parliament (July 18). |
| 1947, Aug. 15 | India wons freedom. |
Extremist and Revolutionary Activities
| 1897, June 22 | First political murder of an European was committed at Poona by the Chapekar brothers, Damodar & Balkishan. Their target was Mr. Rand, President of the Plague Committee but Lt. Ayerst was shot accidently. |
| 1907, Dec. | Bengal revolutionaries made an attempt on the life of Lieutenant governor of Bengal. |
| 1908, April | Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki threw a bomb on the carriage of Kingsford the unpopular judge of Muzaffarpur. |
| 1909 | Mr. Jackson the D.M. of Nasik was shot dead. |
| 1912 | A bomb was thrown at Lord Harding in Chandini Chowk, Delhi, by Rashbehari Bose and Sachindranath Sanyal. |
| 1907 | M.L. Dhingra shot dead Col. William Curzon Whyllie, the political advisor of India office in London. |
| 1907 | Madam Cama, a Parsi revolutionary unfuried the flag of India at Stuttgart congress of 2nd international. |
| 1907 | Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh were deported following riots in Canal colony of Punjab. |
| 1908 | Tilka was sentenced to six years imprisonment on charges of spreading disaffection against the government. |
| 1908 Dec. | Nine Bengal leaders including Ashwani Kumar Dutt and Krishna Kumar Mitra were deported. |
| 1925, Aug. 9 | U.P revolutionaries successfully carried out a dacoity on the Kakori bound train to finance their activities. |
| 1925 | Trial of youths bound train to finance their activities. |
| 1925 | Trial of youths in Kakori conspiracy case. 17 were sentenced to long term imprisonment, four were transported for life and four including Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaryulla & Roshan Lai were hanged. |
| 1928, Dec. | Bhagat Singh, Azad and Raj Guru killed Mr. Saunders A.S.P. of Lalore to average the fatal lathi blow on Lala Lajpat Rai. |
| 1929, April 8 | Bhagat Singh and B.K Dutt threw a bomb in the central legislative assembly to protest against the passing of the Public Safety Bill. |
| 1931, March 23 | Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru were hanged. |
| 1929 | Jatin das died in jail after 63 days of fast to protest against the horrible conditions in the jail. |
| 1930 | Surya Sen, a revolutionary of Bengal masterminded the raid on Chittagong armoury. |
| 1931, Feb. | Chandrasekhar Azad was killed in an encounter with the police at Alfred park (Azad park) in Allahabad. |
| 1933 | Surya Sen was hanged. |
Congress Sessions
| Year | Session | Venue | President | |
| 1885 | 1st | Bombay | W. C. Bannerji | |
| 1886 | 2nd | Calcutta | Dadabhait Naoroji | |
| 1887 | 3rd | Madras | Badruddin Tyabji (1st Muslim President) | |
| 1888 | 4th | Allahabad | George Yule (1st European President) | |
| 1889 | 5th | Bombay | Sir William Wedderbum | |
| 1890 | 6th | Calcutta | Pherozeshah Mehta | |
| 1891 | 7th | Nagpur | P. Anand Charhi | |
| 1892 | 8th | Allahabad | W.C. Bannerji | |
| 1893 | 9th | Lahore | Dada Bhai Naoroji | |
| 1894 | 10th | Madras | Alfred Webb | |
| 1 895 | 11th | Poona | S.N. Bannerji | |
| 1896 | 12th | Calcutta | R. Rahimatullah Sayani | |
| 1897 | 13th | Amravati | C. Sankaran Nair | |
| 1898 | 14 th – | Madras | Anand Mohan Bose | |
| 1899 | 15th ; | Lucknow | R.C. Dutt | |
| 1900 | 16th | Lahore | N.G. Chandravarkar | |
| 1901 | 17th “ | Calcutta | DinshaWacha | |
| 1902 | 18 th | Ahmedabad | S.N. Banned | |
| 1903 | 19th | Madras | Lai Mohan Ghose | |
| 1904 | 20th | Bombay | Henery Cotton | |
| 1905 | 21st | Benaras | G.K. Gokhale | |
| 1906 | 22nd | Calcutta | D.B. Naoroji | |
| 1907 | 23rd | Surat | Rash Behari Ghose | |
| 1908 | Special | Madras | Rash Behari Ghose | |
| 1909 | 24th | Lahore | M.M. Malaviya | |
| 1910 | 25th | Calcutta | Bishan Narayan Dhar | |
| 1912 | 27th | Bankipur (Patna) | R.N. Mudhalkar | |
| 1913 | 28th | Karachi | Syed Muhamed Bahadur | |
| 1914 | 29th | Madras | Bhupendranath Bose | |
| 1915 | 30th | Bombay | Sir. S.P. Sinha | |
| 1916 | 31st | Lucknow | A. Majumdar | |
| 1917 | 32nd | Calcutta | Mrs. Ani Besant (First Woman President) | |
| 1918 | Special | Bombay | Syed Hassan Imam | |
| 1919 | 33rd | Amritsar | Moti Lai Nehru | |
| 1920 | Special | Calcutta | Lala Lajpat Rai | |
| 1920 | 35th | Nagpur | C. Vijaya Raghavachariya | |
| 1921 | 36th | Ahmedabad | Hakim Ajmal Khan | |
| 1922 | 37th | Gaya | C.R. Das | |
| 1923 | Special | Delhi | Abul Kalam Azad | |
| 1923 | 38th | Kakinada | Maulana Muhamad Ali | |
| 1924 | 39th | Belgaum | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| 1925 | 40th | Kanpur | Sarojini Naidu (1st Indian woman President) | |
| 1926 | 41st | Gauhati | Srinivas Ayangar | |
| 1927 | 42nd | Madras | M.A. Ansari | |
| 1928 | 43rd | Calcutta | Motilal Nehru | |
| 1929 | 44th | Lahore | J.L. Nehru | |
| 1930 | No Session | J.L. Nehru (continues) | ||
| 1931 | 45th | Karachi | Vallabhai Patel | |
| 1932 | 46th | Delhi | R.D. Amrit Lai | |
| 1933 | 47th | Calcutta | Mr.s Nellie Sengupta | |
| 1934 | 48th | Bombay | Rajendra Prasad | |
| 1935 | No Session | Rajendra Prasad (continues) | ||
| 1936 | 49th | Lucknow | J.L. Nehru | |
| 1937 | 50th | Faizpur | J.L. Nehru | |
| 1938 | 51st | Haripura | S.C. Bose | |
| 1939 | 52nd | Tripura | S.C. Bose/Raj endra Prasad | |
| 1940 | 53rd | Ramgarh | Abdul Kalam Azad | |
| 1941-45 | No Session | Abdul Kalam Azad (continues) | ||
| 1946 | 54th | Meerut | J.B. Kripalani | |
| 1947 | 55th | Delhi | Rajendra Prasad | |
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