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important gk topic general knowledge for all exam: Important date and years of indian struggle for freedom
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1915,
Feb 19 : ----- Death of Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
1915,
April 28 : ----- B.G Tilak
founds Indian Home Rule League with its headquarters of Poona.
1916,
Sept 25 : ----- Another Home
Rule league started by Annie Besant.
1917
April : ----- Mahatma Gandhi
launches the champaran campaign in Bihar
to focus attention on the grievances of indigo planters.
1917,
August 20 : ----- The Secretary of state for India ,Montague , declares that the goal of
the British government in India
is the introduction of Responsible Government.
1918 :
----- Beginning of trade
union movement in India.
1918,
April : ----- Rowlatt
(Sedition) Committee submits its report, Rowlatt Bill introduced on
February 16, 1919.
1919,April
13 : ----- Jallianwala Bagh
tragedy.
1919
Dec. 5 : ----- The House of
Commons passes the Montague Chelmsford Reforms or the Government of India
Act, 1919. The new reforms under this Act
came into operation in 1921.
1920 :
----- First meeting of All India
Trade Union Congress.(under Narain Malhar Joshi).
1920.
Dec. : ----- The Indian
National Congress (INC) adapts the Non- CO- operation Resolution.
1920-22 : ----- Non.Co-operation Movement,
suspended on February 12, 1922 after the violent incidents at Chaura on
February 5, 1922.
1922,
August : ----- Maplah rebellionon
the Malabar coast.
1923,
jan 1 : ----- Swarajist Party
formed by Motilal Nehru and others.
1924 :
----- The Communist Party of
India starts its activities at Kanpur.
1925,August
: ----- Kakori Train
Conspiracy case.
1927,
Nov. 8: ----- The British
Prime Minister announces the appointment of the Simon Commission to
suggest future constitutional reforms in India. Simon Commission
arrives in Bombay
on February 3, 1928 and all-India hartal. Late Lajpat Raj assaulted by
police at Lahore.
1928 :
----- Nehru Report recommends
principles for the new Constitution of India. All-parties conference
considers the Nehru Report, August 28-31, 1928.
1928,
Nov. 17 : ----- Death of Late
Lala Lajpat Rai.
1929 :
----- Sarda Act passed
prohibiting marriage of girls below 14 and boys below 18 years age with
effect from 1930.
1929,
March 9 : ----- All-Parties
Muslim Conference formulates the ‘Fourteen Points’ under the leadership of
Jinnah.
1929,
April 8 : ------ Bhagat Singh
and Batukeshwar Dutt throw bomb in the Central.
1929,
Oct 31 : ------ Lord lrwins
announcement that the goal of British policy in India was the grant of the
Dominion status.
1929,Dec
31 : ------ The Lahore
session of the INC adopts the goal of complete independence – poorna swarajya for India ; Jawaharlal
Nehru hoist the tricolour of Indian Independence on the banks of the Ravi
at Lahore.
1930,
Jan 26 : ------ First
Independence Day observed.
1930,
Feb. 14 : ------ The Working
Committee of the Inc meets at Sabarmati and passes The Civil Disobedience
resolution.
1930,
March 12 : ----- Mahatma
Gandhi launches the civil Disobedience movement with his epic Dandi March
(March 12 to April 6), First phase of the Civil Disobedience movement :
March 12, 1930 to March 5, 1931.
1930,
Nov 30 : ------ First Round
Table Conference begins in London
to consider the report of the Simon Commission.
1931,
march 5 : ------ Gandhi
–Irwin pact signed .Civil Disobedience movement suspended.
1931,
March 23 : ------ Bhagat singh
,Sukh Dev and Rajguru executed.
1931,
Sept 7 : ----- Second Round
Table Conference.
1931,
Dec 28 : ------ Gandhi
returns from London
after the deadlock in LLnd RTC, launches Civil Disobedience Movement, The
INC declared illegal.
1932,
Jan 4 : ----- Gandhiji
arrested and imprisoned without trial.
1932,
August 16 : ------ British
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald announces the infamous “Communal Awards”.
1932 ,
Sept 20 : ------ Gandhiji in jail, begins his epic
“fast unto death” against the Communal Awards and ends the fast on Sept 26
after the Poona Pact.
1932,
Nov 17 : ------ The third
Round Table Conference begins in London
(Nov 17 to Dec 24).
1933,
May 9 : ------ Gandhiji released
from prison as he begins fast for self-purification. INC suspends Civil
Disobedience movement but authorizes Satyagraha by individuals.
1934 :
----- Gandhiji withdraws from
active polities and devotes himself to “constructive programmes” (1934-39).
1935 ,
August 4 : ------ The
Government of India Act (1935) passed.
1937 : ------ Elections held in India under the Act of 1935
(February 1937) . The INC contests election and forms ministries in
several provinces (july 1937).
1938,
Feb 19-20 : ----- Haripura
session of INC. Subhash Chandra Bose elected Congress President.
1939,
March 10-12 : ------ Tripuri
session of the INC.
1939,
April : ------ Subhash Chandra
Bose resigns as the president of the INC.
1939,
Sept 3 : ------ Second World
War(September 1). Great Britain
declares war on Germany;
the Viceroy declares that India
too is at war.
1939,
Oct 27-Nov 5 : ------ The
Congress ministries in the provinces resign in profest against the war
policy of the British government.
1939,
Dec 22 : ------ The 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,
August 10 : ------ Viceroy
Linlithgow announces August Offer.
1940,
Aug 18-22 : ------ Congress
Working Committee rejects the ‘August Offer’.
1940,
Oct 17 : ------ Congress
launches Bose Individual Satyagraha movement.
1941,
Jan 17 : ------ Subhash Chandra Bose escapes from India ; arrives in Berlin (March 28).
1942,
March 11 : ------ Churchill
announces the ‘Cripps Mission’.
1942
August 7-8 : ------ The INC
meets in Bombay;adapts
‘Quit India’ resolution.
1942,
August 9 : ------ Gandhiji
and other Congress leaders arrested.
1942,
August 11 : ------ Quit India
movement begins ; the Great August Uprising.
1942,
Sept 1 : ------ Subhash
Chandra Bose establish the Indian National Army "Azad Hind Fauj".
1943,
Oct 21 : ------ Subhash
Chandra Bose proclaims the formation of the provisional Government of free
India.
1943,
Dec : ----- Karachi
session of the Muslim League adapts the slogan Divide and Government of
free India.
1944,
Jan 25 : ------ Wavell call Simla Conference in a bid to
from the Executive Council of Indian political leaders.
1946,
Feb 18 : ------ Mutiny of the
Indian naval ratings in Bombay.
1946,
March 15 : ------ British
Prime Minister Attlee announces Cabinet Mission to propose new solution to
the Indian deadlock ; Cabinet Mission arrives in New Delhi (March 14); issues proposal
(may 16).
1946,
july 6 : ------ Jawaharlal
Nehru takes over as Congress President.
1946,
August 6 : ------- Wavell
invites Nehruto from an interim government ; Interim Government takes
office ISept 2).
1946,
Dec 9 : ------ First session
of the constituent Assembly of India starts. Muslim League
boycotts it.
1947,
Feb 20 : ------ British Prime
Minister Attlee declares that the British government world leave India not
later than June 1948.
1947,
March 24 : ------ Lord
Mountbatten , the last British Viceroy and Governor-General of India ,
sworn in (March 24, 1947 to June 21,1948).
1947,
June 3 : ------ Mountbatten
Plan for the partition of India
and announcement (June 4) that transfer to power will take place on.