Indian Nationalism Timeline

By Regi Ferrigno

  • 1857

    1857
    Indian Mutinity rebellion Takes place

  • 1858

    India comes under direct rule of the british crown after failed indian mutinity.

  • 1869

    Birth Mohandas karamachand Gandhi

  • 1885

    Indian National congress founded as a forum for emerging nationalist feeling.

  • 1888

    Gandhi leaves to study law in england

  • 1891

    Gandhi fails as a lawyer in India

  • 1899

    Outbreak of boer war in south africa and Gandhi organizes ambulances corps for the british

  • 1901

    1901
    Gandhi returns to India to attend the indan national congress. Gonkale introduces him to nationalist leaders.

  • 1907

    The boer republic Transvaasal, now under the control of the british, attempts to register all indians as members.

  • 1908

    1908
    Gandhi gets arrested and is sentenced two months in prison. After he leaves jail, seven months later he gets arrested and goes to jail for one month.

  • 1914

    1914
    Gandhi and others reach an agreement, ending the protests.

  • 1918

    End of great war

  • 1919

    1919
    Massacre of Armitsar. Incident on April 13, 1919 in which troops fired a large crowd of unarmed Indians in the punjab.

  • 1920

    Nationalists figurehead Gandhi

  • 1925

    1925
    Gandhi becomes the president of the Indian National Congress

  • 1930

    1930
    Gandhi marches to the sea in protest of the british monopoly on salt, and his acts get disobeyed

  • 1942

    Congress called "Quit India" was launched
    It proclaimed a mass protest demanding what Gandhi caññed "an orderly british withdrawal"

  • 1947

    End of british rule and partion of sub continent into mainly hindu india and muslim majority state of pakistan.

  • 1948

    1948
    Gandhi gets assassinated By Hindu extremist called Nathuram Godse