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Mutiny Against the British
On March 29, 1857, on the parade ground at Barrackpore, a sepoy named Mangal Pandey fired the first shot of the uprising. His unit in the Bengal Army, which had refused to use the new rifle cartridges, was about to be disarmed and punished. And Pandey shot a British sergeant-major and a lieutenant. -
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Important Events During British Rule in India
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National Indian Congress was Founded
Indian National Congress, Indian political party, founded in 1885. Its founding members proposed economic reforms and wanted a larger role in the making of British policy for India. -
Indian Councils Act (Morley-Minto Reform)
Indian Councils Act of 1909, also called Morley-Minto Reforms, series of reform measures enacted in 1909 by the British Parliament, the main component of which directly introduced the elective principle to membership in the imperial and local legislative councils in India. The act was formulated by John Morley, secretary of state for India (1905–10). -
New Capital
Calcutta was the capital of India during the British Raj until December 1911. Since Delhi had served as the political and financial centre of several empires of ancient India, a proposal was made to the British administration to shift the capital of the British Indian Empire (as it was officially called) from Calcutta to Delhi. -
Attempted Assasination of Viceroy, Lord Hardinage
Rash Behari Bose had scripted a bomb attack on the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge. Bose had planned the attack with perfection and had used Besant Kumar to set and blow the bomb on December 23, 1912 in Delhi. -
First World War
World War I was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants were killed; a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate.It was the 5th-deadliest conflict in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved -
The Rowlatt Bill was Passed
The Rowlatt Act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in London on 10 March 1919, indefinitely extending emergency measures (of the Defence of India Regulations Act) enacted during the First World War in order to control public unrest and root out conspiracy, in India. -
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was a seminal event in the British rule of India. On 13 April 1919, a crowd of non-violent protesters had gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh garden in Amritsar, Punjab to protest the arrest of two leaders despite a curfew which had been recently declared. On the orders of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, the army fired on the crowd for ten minutes, directing their bullets largely towards the few open gates through which people were trying to run out -
Civil Disobedience Movement
The Civil Disobedience Movement was launched under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi in the year 1930. This was one of the most significant movements in the course of the Indian Independence Movement. -
Singh, Dev, and Rajguru were executed
Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Rajguru were executed on 23rd March. After their execution, their bodies were burnt and their ashes were thrown into the river as a part of an Indian Tradition. -
Gandhi was Arrested Without a Trail
Gandhi was arrested in Bombay early this morning, along with the President of Congress. He had planned to make a train journey, and the police proposed to arrest him at a quiet wayside station some distance from Bombay, but Mr. Gandhi suddenly altered his arrangements, and the police plans were consequently upset, causing them to arrest him in Bombay. -
The Government of India Act 1935 was passed on 4th August
The Bill was discussed in the House of Commons for 43 days and in the House of Lords for 13 days and finally, after being signed by the King, was enforced as the Government of India Act, 1935, in July 1935 -
Quit India Movement Begins
Under the leadership of Gandhi the Quit India Movement was launched. The purpose of this was to set up series of non-violent ways hopefully leading up to the long awaited Independence. This was a simple way of stating the way the importance to regain independence. -
India Gains Independence
On 3 June 1947, Viscount Louis Mountbatten, the last British Governor-General of India, announced the partitioning of British India into India and Pakistan. With the speedy passage through the British Parliament of the Indian Independence Act 1947, at 11:57 on 14 August 1947 Pakistan was declared a separate nation, and at 12:02, just after midnight, on 15 August 1947, India also became an independent nation.
