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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