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    Important Dates for History

    Indian History
    • 1757 : Battle of Plassey (optional)
    • 1764 : Battle of Buxar (optional)
    • 1829 : Sati declared illegal by William Bentinck
    • 1852 : Inam Commission
    • 1856 : General Service Enlistment Act
    • 1856 : Awadh annexed
    • 1850 : Religious Disabilities Act
    • 29 March 1857 : Revolt by Mangal Pandey in Barrackpore
    • 1 November 1858 : Queen Victoria proclamation in Allahabad
    • 1876 : Queen Victoria assumed title of Empress of India (The Royal Titles Act 1876)
    • Grand Delhi Durbar on 1 January 1877
    • 1878 : Vernacular Press Act and Indian Arms Act (Lord Lytton)
    • 1883 : Ilbert Bill
    • 1873 : Satya Shodhak Samaj established by Jyothiba Phule (year optional)
    • December 28, 1885 : first session of Indian National Congress, Bombay
    • October 16, 1905 : Partition of Bengal (was revoked in 1911)
    • 1907 : Surat split
    • 1893 : Ganapati festival started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, established Home Rule league
    in 1916 (optional)
    • October 1928 : Lala Lajpat Rai injured during protest against Simon Commission (died in
    November 1928)
    • December 30, 1906 : Formation of Muslim League
    • January 1915 : Mahatma Gandhi returned to India
    • 1916 : Lucknow Pact
    • 1917 : Champaran satyagraha
    • 1918 : Ahmedabad and Kheda satyagraha
    • October 17, 1919 : Khilafat Day
    • March 1919 : Rowlatt Act (passed in March)
    • April 13, 1919 : Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
    • February 4, 1922 : Chauri Chaura incident (4th Feb according to the Govt of Uttar
    Pradesh website on Chauri Chaura memorial)
    • November 1927 : Simon Commission
    • December 31, 1929 : Declaration of Poorna Swaraj by Congress led by Nehru at Lahore
    session
    • Dandi March : 12th March 1930 to 6th April
    • September to December 1931 : Second Round Table conference, London
    • August 8, 1942 : Quit India Movement resolution passed
    • May 1939 : Formation of Forward Bloc (Subhas Chandra Bose resigned from Congress
    in April 1939)
    • 1940 : Bose arrested. He escapes in 1941 (optional)
    • 1944 : First time tricolour on liberated Indian soil

    * October 21, 1943 : Bose sets up Provisional Government of Free India

    World History
    • June 28, 1914 : Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
    • June 28, 1919 : Treaty of Versailles signed
    • World War 1 Fighting : 1914-18 (Armistice signed on 11 Nov 1918)
    • 1 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland - Start of World War II
    • August 6, 1945 : Hiroshima bombing
    • August 9, 1945 : Nagasaki bombing

    * October 24, 1945 : United Nations Day

    • October 20, 1947 : UN Flag adopted


    • 16 November 1945 : UNESCO formed (This date is on the UN website)
    • 1946 : UNICEF formed
    • 7 April 1948 : WHO established
    • 1965 : UNICEF received Nobel peace prize

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