| 594 | books in China were printed on wrapping paper | 
| 868 | the first and oldest Japanese book printed – the Buddhist diamond sutra | 
| 1295 | Marco Polo returned to Italy | 
| 1448 | Gutenberg perfected the printing press system | 
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus discovered America | 
| 1517 | religious Reform mark Martin Luther wrote 95 theses criticizing many of the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic churches | 
| 1558 | an index of prohibited books started by the roman church | 
| 1579 | first Tamil book printed by catholic priests at cochin | 
| 1688 | English parliament seized power from the monarchy | 
| 1707 | the act of union between England and Scotland | 
| 1713 | first Malayalam book printed | 
| 1730 | factories came up in England | 
| 1764 | spinning jenny by James Hargreaves | 
| 1780 | James Augustus bengal gazette | 
| 1781 | James Watt improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen and patented the new engine in 1781 | 
| 1789 | French revolution | 
| 1798 | failed revolt of wolf tone and his united Irishmen | 
| 1801 | Ireland incorporated into the UK | 
| 1804 | Napoleonic code – civil code of 1804 | 
| 1810 | frist printed edition of ramcharitmanas of tulsidas | 
| 1815 | Napoleon was defeated at waterloo, and European power met in Vienna to set up a new conservative regime | 
| 1821 | rammohan roy – sambad kaumudi ; hindu orthodoxy – samachar chandrika | 
| 1822 | two Persian newspapers – jam-i-Jahan nama, Shamsul Akhbar | 
| 1822 | Gujarati newspaper – bombay samachar | 
| 1830 | First upheaval in France -July revolution | 
| 1832 | treaty of Constantinople | 
| 1834 | a customs Union of Zollverein was formed | 
| 1848 | Fredric sorrieu painted dream of worldwide painting(chapter1) | 
| 1853 | Mumbai to thane first train for 34 km | 
| 1854 | first cotton mill in bombay | 
| 1854 | first successful textile mill in Mumbai | 
| 1855 | first jute mill in Kolkata | 
| 1859 | inland emigration act | 
| 1861 | Victor Emanuel II was proclaimed king of united Italy | 
| 1867 | Deobandi seminary founded | 
| 1870 | bankim chandra chattopadhyay wrote vande matram | 
| 1871 | William, I proclaimed as german emperor at Versailles | 
| 1871 | jyotiba phule – gulamgiri book | 
| 1874 | the first spinning and weaving mill in Madras begin production | 
| 1876 | amar jiban published – the first autobiography in Bengali | 
| 1878 | The vernacular press act was passed | 
| 1880 | Late1880s-rinderpest in Africa | 
| 1885 | big European powers met in berlin to complete the carving of Africa | 
| 1885 | INC was formed by AO Hume | 
| 1904 | first cement plant | 
| 1909 | hind swaraj book by gandhi ji | 
| 1912 | JN Tata set up the first iron and steel at jamdeshpur | 
| 1914 | first world war (1914-1918) | 
| 1915 | mahatma gandhi returned to India | 
| 1917 | gandhi ji travelled to champaran in bihar , satyagrah at kheda gujarat | 
| 1918 | satyagraha at ahmedabad | 
| 1919 | rowlatt act passed , 13 april-infamous jallianwala bagh mascare , khilafat comitte was formed | 
| 1919 | Government of india act | 
| 1920 | September – Calcutta – NCM proposed | 
| 1920 | December – Nagpur – NCM accepted | 
| 1920 | indian industrial and commercial congress was formed | 
| 1921 | non cooperation movement | 
| 1921 | gandhi ji designed the swaraj flag | 
| 1921 | indentured labour abolished in 1921 | 
| 1922 | chauri chaura; Gandhi decided to withdraw the noncooperation movement | 
| 1924 | Alluri Sitaram Raju was arrested | 
| 1925 | CPI formed | 
| 1927 | federation of Indian chamber of commerce and industries(FICCI) formed; Madras session – passed a resolution for the boycott of the Simon Commission. | 
| 1928 | bardoli satyagraha by vallabhai Patel , (HSRA) Hindustan socialist republican army was found in Delhi , Simon commission arrived in India | 
| 1929 | bhagat singh threw a bomb into the assembly | 
| 1929 | Lahore session formalized demand for purna swaraj | 
| 1929 | great economic depression (1929 – 1930) | 
| 1930 | 26 January - independence day was celebrated for the first time | 
| 1930 | Ambedkar established the depressed classes association | 
| 1930 | gandhi ji started civil disobedience by breaking the salt law | 
| 1931 | gandhi irwin pact, second round table conference | 
| 1932 | civil disobedience relaunched | 
| 1932 | September – Poona pact – gandhi and Ambedkar | 
| 1938 | Kashibaba-kanpur milworker – chote aur bade ki soch book | 
| 1942 | quit India- passed in Wardha & endorsed in bombay | 
| 1948 | Sri lanka became independent | 
| 1951 | Bhartiya jana sangh was formed by syama prasad mukherjee – revived in 1980 as BJP, The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift t- a voluntary land reform m-ent India, started by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951 in Telangana. | 
| 1952 | National forest policy, Cheetahs became extinct in India | 
| 1953 | Air transport nationalized the States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) was constituted in 1953 | 
| 1956 | law-making Sinhala the only official language | 
| 1960 | BRO border road organization formed | 
| 1964 | CPI-M formed (split in CPI ) | 
| 1965 | use of English as an official language was to stop(but this never happened) | 
| 1970 | grameen bank of Bangladesh | 
| 1972 | Indian wildlife protection act | 
| 1973 | project tiger | 
| 1976 | equal remuneration act | 
| 1984 | BSP formed by kanshi ram | 
| 1985 | Anti-defection law passed | 
| 1992 | Rio de Janeiro earth summit | 
| 1992 | decentralization in India | 
| 1998 | ATC launched by Mamata Banerjee | 
| 1999 | NCP nationalist congress party formed | 
| 2005 | MGNREGA, National jute policy was formulated | 
| 2009 | the civil war ended in Sri lanka | 
 

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