Some Important Years in Indian History

• 78: Saka Era started 

• 1191: First Battle of Tarain 

• 1288: Marco Polo visited India 

• 1398: Timur’s invasion 

• 1498: Vasco da Gama landed at Kappad near Kozhikode 

• 1600: English East India Company established 

• 1757: Battle of Plasey 

• 1761: Third Battle of Panipat 

• 1853: First Railway line opened

 • 1857: Sepoy Mutiny 

• 1869: Birth of Gandhiji (Porbandar) 

• 1885: Indian National Congress organized 

• 1905: Partition of Bengal 

• 1911: Delhi becomes the Capital 

• 1919: Jalian Walah Bagh Tragedy 

• 1935: Government of India Act passed 

• 1942: Quit India Movement 

• 1947: Indian Independence 

• 1948: Death of Gandhiji 

• 1950: India becomes Republic 

• 1951: First Five Year Plan launched 

• 1952: First General Election to the Lok Sabha 

• 1953: Mount Everest conquered by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary 

• 1956: Re organization of Indian states on linguistic basis 

• 1965: Indo Pak War 

• 1974: Pokhran Explosion (May18) 

• 1975: Declaration of Emergency