| 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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