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| 1869 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand |  |
| 2nd Oct Pornbandar Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, son of a Prime Minister of a princely state |
| 1881 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Marries Kasturbai, they have 4 sons |
| 1887 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| London Gandhigoes to University College London to train as a barrister |
| 1891 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| London Called to the bar at the Inner Temple |
| Bombay Practises law in Bombay for 2 years |
| 1893 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Leads a non-violent movement against racially discriminating laws |
| 1894 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Founds the Natal Indian Congress Party, molds the Indian community of SouthAfrica into a homogeneous political force |
| 1899 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| At the onset of the SouthAfrican War, Gandhi argues that Indians must support the war effort in order to legitimize their claims to full citizenship, organizing a volunteer ambulance corps of 300 free Indians and 800 indentured labourers |
| 1905 | Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali | |
| Birth of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |
| 1906 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Johannesburg While the government is successful in repressing the Indian protesters, the public outcry stemming from the harsh methods employed by the SouthAfrican government in the face of peaceful Indian protesters finally forced SouthAfrican General Jan Chr |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg Calls on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and suffer the punishments for doing so, rather than resist through violent means |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg Start of a seven-year struggle in which thousands of Indians were jailed (including Gandhi), flogged, or even shot, for striking, refusing to register, burning their registration cards, or engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg The Trans vaal government promulgates a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian population, at a mass protest meeting Gandhi adopts his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest |
| 1906 | Gokhale, Gopal Krishna | |
| Tilak advocates civil agitation and direct revolution to overthrow the British Empire, whereas Gokhale is a moderate reformist, the Congress Party splits into two wings |
| 1907 | Tilak, Bal Gangadhar | |
| At the Party annual session trouble breaks over the selection of the new president of the Congress , the party splits into the Garam Dal ("Hot Faction," extremists), led by Tilak, Pal and Rai, and the Naram Dal ("Soft Faction," moderate) |
| 1915 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Helps found the Congress Party |
| Returns to India from Sth Africa to campaign for independence |
| 1916 | Singh, Giani Zail | |
| Birth of Giani Zail Singh |
| 1916 | Tilak, Bal Gangadhar | |
| Tilak re-unites with his fellow nationalists and re-joins the Indian National Congress |
| 1917 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Allahabad Birth of Indira Nehru Gandhi, daughter of Nehru |
| 1919 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Persuades the Congress Party to launch a Non-Cooperation Movement |
| 1920 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Mahatma Gandhi launches an anti-British civil disobedience campaign |
| 1920 | Nehru, Motilal | |
| Appointed President of the INC |
| 1920 | Shastri, Lal Bahadur | |
| Appointed Member of the Indian National Congress |
| 1921 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| A hierarchy of committees is set up to improve discipline, transforming the party from an elite organization to one of mass national appeal |
| Gandhi expands his non-violence platform to include the swadeshi policy - the boycott of foreign-made goods, especially British goods |
| Gandhi is invested with executive authority on behalf of the Indian National Congress , the Congress is reorganized with a new constitution, with the goal of Swaraj & membership in the party is opened to anyone prepared to pay |
| 1922 | Das, Chitta Ranjan | |
| 18th Mar While Gandhi is in prison the INC spinters into 2 factions, one led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru favouring participation in the legislatures, the other led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| 1922 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Chauri Chaura Suspends the Non-Cooperation Movement after the Chauri Chaura incident, fearing that the movement was about to take a turn towards violence, and convinced that this would be the undoing of all his work |
| 10th Mar Chauri Chaura Gandhi is arrested then tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years imprisonment |
| 18th Mar Chauri Chaura Begins his sentence, serves about two years of the sentence, being released in February 1924 after an operation for appendicitis |
| 18th Mar Chauri Chaura Imprisoned after the Chauri Chaura incident |
| 18th Mar Chauri Chaura While Gandhi is in prison the INC spinters into 2 factions, one led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru favouring participation in the legislatures, the other led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| 22nd Mar Chauri Chaura A British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison |
| 1922 | Nehru, Motilal | |
| 18th Mar While Gandhi is in prison the INC spinters into 2 factions, one led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru favouring participation in the legislatures, the other led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| 1922 | Patel, Sardar Vallabhbhai | |
| 18th Mar While Gandhi is in prison the INC spinters into 2 factions, one led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru favouring participation in the legislatures, the other led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| 1922 | Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti | |
| 18th Mar While Gandhi is in prison the INC spinters into 2 factions, one led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru favouring participation in the legislatures, the other led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| 1923 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Appointed Secretary of the INC, 1st term |
| 1924 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Ghandi devotes himself to the "constructive programme" to build Muslim & Hindu unity |
| Feb Released from prison |
| 1927 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Appointed Secretary of the INC, 2nd term |
| 1928 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| The Nehru Report is published, Ghandi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement |
| 28th Aug Lucknow The all-party Lucknow conference vote for dominion status for India |
| 1928 | Nehru, Motilal | |
| 28th Aug Lucknow Formulates a plan for the Dominion Status of India |
| 1930 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| The Simon Commission is published, Ghandi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement |
| 26th Jan Released from prison to have talks with the British colonial Government in India |
| 1930 | Nehru, Motilal | |
| Advocates a plan of civil disobedience |
| 1931 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| London Attends an abortive round-table conference on the future of India |
| 1932 | Singh, Manmohan | |
| 26th Sep Gah Birth of Manmohan Singh |
| 1933 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Gandi is imprisoned |
| The term Pakistan is coined to denote the country of Punjabi, Afghani, Kashmiri, Sini and Baluchistani people |
| 1934 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| 7th April Suspends the campaign of civil disobedience |
| 24th Oct Gandhi resigns from the Indian Congress Party |
| 1935 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| The Government of India Act, 11 British Indian provinces with parliaments are created |
| 1938 | Bose, Subhas Chandra | |
| Appointed President of the Indian National Congress |
| 1939 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Imprisoned for political actions during the war |
| Joins the Congress Party |
| 1942 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Congress launches "Quit India" movement |
| Marries Feroze Gandhi |
| 1942 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Gandi is imprisoned, goes on hunger strike |
| 1944 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| 27th Sep Bombay Talks break down with Jinnah over a Hindu-Moslem settlement |
| 1946 | Jinnah, Muhammad Ali | |
| 16th Aug Calcutta Calls for the Direct Action Day, in Calcutta there are 20,000 casualties |
| 1947 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Serves her father, the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1947 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| Gandhi urges Hindus not to retaliate against Muslim attrocities |
| 15th Aug 1st day of the existence of the Dominion of India |
| 15th Aug Gandhi opposes the partition between Muslim Pakistan & Hindu India |
| 15th Aug Plans for the independence & partition of India are declared |
| 1948 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| 12th Jan Threatens to starve if the government does not pay œ44 million owed to Pakistan |
| 15th Jan The Indian government agrees to Gandhi's demands & pays Pakistan œ44 million |
| 20th Jan A 3rd assassination attempt is made on Gandhi's life |
| 30th Jan Delhi Assassinated by a Hindu journalist |
| 30th Jan Delhi Death of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, assassinated by a Hindu journalist |
| 31st Jan Delhi Gandhi is buried |
| 1948 | Godse, Nathuram | |
| 30th Jan Delhi Assassinates Gandhi |
| 27th May Opening of Godse's trial for the assasination of Gandhi |
| 1948 | Nathuran | |
| 30th Jan Delhi Arrested for the assassination of Gandhi |
| 30th Jan Delhi Asssasinates Gandhi in the garden of Birla house by shooting 3 times at him |
| 1948 | Pahwa, Madan Lal | |
| 20th Jan Dehli Nearly assassinates Gandhi |
| 1949 | Apte, Narayan | |
| 10th Feb Godse & Apte are sentenced to death for the assassination of Gandhi |
| 15th Nov Death of Narayan Apte, executed for the assassination of Gandhi |
| 15th Nov Godse & Apte are executed for the assassination of Gandhi |
| 1949 | Godse, Nathuram | |
| 10th Feb Godse & Apte are sentenced to death for the assassination of Gandhi |
| 15th Nov Death of Nathuram Godse, executed for the assassination of Gandhi |
| 15th Nov Godse & Apte are executed for the assassination of Gandhi |
| 1959 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Appointed Party President of the Congress Party |
| 1964 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Appointed Minister of Broadcasting |
| 1964 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| 27th May Death of Jawaharlal Nehru, age 74 |
| 1966 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| 19th Jan A broad Congress Party election opts for Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, over the right-wing, conservative Morarji Desai |
| 24th Jan Appointed Prime Minister of India, 1st term |
| 1967 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| 15th Feb The ruling Congress Party sustains heavy losses |
| 6th Mar Delhi Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, requests asylum at the USAEmbassy |
| 1969 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| A dissident Congress movement is formed & led by Desai |
| 1970 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| The Awami leadership fled to India along with millions of refugees and declared the independent state of Bangladesh, the Indians give the declaration full support and help to equip a guerrilla army |
| 1971 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of India, 2nd term |
| India hosts refugees from eastern Pakistan |
| Twenty-year treaty of friendship signed with Soviet Union |
| 10th Mar Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had leads her Indian National Congress to a landslide majority in the Parliament of India in the elections, and after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, her popularity is meteoric |
| 2nd April Pakistan protests against India's support for Bangladeshi independence |
| 5th April Left wing rebellion in SriLanka |
| 22nd Nov Pakistan accuses India of invading Bangladesh |
| 3rd Dec Pakistan bombs Indian airfields |
| 6th Dec India recognizes the independence of Bangladesh |
| 1974 | Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali | |
| Appointed President of India |
| 1974 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| India conducts an underground nuclear test at Pokharan in the Rajasthen desert, code named the "Smiling Buddha" |
| Sikkim Sikkim votes overwhelmingly to join India |
| The Allahabad High Court rules in a case that the Prime Minister had wrongfully used government machinery in her election campaign in 1971 |
| The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is founded after India's first "peaceful nuclear explosion" |
| 1975 | Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali | |
| The President declares state of emergency due to "internal disturbance threat" |
| 1975 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Sikkim India annexes Sikkim |
| 12th June Allahabad A judge rules the 1971 election victory invalid because of aid by civil servants |
| 12th June Allahabad Debarred from public office for 6 years |
| 12th June Allahabad Found guilty of electoral corruption during the 1971 campaign |
| 12th June Allahabad The President declares state of emergency due to "internal disturbance threat" |
| 26th June A state of emergency, 1975-77 |
| 26th June During pre-dawn raids 676 political opponents are arrested |
| 26th June Allahabad The President declares state of emergency due to "internal disturbance threat" |
| July Most political organizations |
| July Most political organizations are banned & dictatorial powers are given by Parliament |
| 1976 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| India and Pakistan re-establish diplomatic relations |
| India's prime minister Indira Gandhi signs a cooperation pact with the Soviet Union |
| The word secular is inserted into the Preamble by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976. It implies equality of all religions and religious tolerance |
| The word socialist is added to the Preamble by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976, social and economic equality for all its citizens, no discrimination on the basis of caste, colour, creed, sex, religion, language etc |
| To curb population growth, Indira Gandhi initiates a program of forced sterilization |
| 8th Jan Basic rights guaranteed by the constitution are removed |
| 8th Jan Parliamentary elections are postponed for the 1st time since Indian independence |
| 14th Jan Madras In an address to the Pugwash Conference in Madras Indira Gandhi rebuts criticism of India's 1974 nuclear explosion and says that that India will not give up further experiments in peaceful uses of nuclear energy |
| 1977 | Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali | |
| Death of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |
| 1977 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| End of the state of emergency |
| The 6th General Elections, the Janata Party comes to power |
| The Desai dissidents win a landslide victory over the official Congress candidates |
| When Indira Gandhi calls elections, virtually all opposition parties band together to form the Janata Party, which becomes a rainbow coalition of diverse political groups |
| 22nd Mar Resigns from office |
| 1978 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Nov Imprisoned for 1 week for breach of Parliamentary privilege |
| Nov Leads to a sympathetic upturn in her political fortunes |
| 1980 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Leads the Congress Party to electoral victory at the 7th General Election |
| 6th Jan Appointed Prime Minister of India, 3rd term |
| 1980 | Gandhi, Sanjay | |
| 23rd June Death of Sanjay Gandhi |
| 1982 | Singh, Giani Zail | |
| 25th July Appointed President of India |
| 1984 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| 5th June Amritsar Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple |
| 5th June Amritsar Orders an attack on the Golden Temple to counter demands for an autonomous Sikh state |
| 31st Oct Delhi Death of Indira Nehru Gandhi, assassinated |
| 31st Oct Delhi India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two of her Sikh guards acting in the aftermath of Operation Blues tar |
| 31st Oct Delhi Over the next four days Sikhs are massacred in retaliatory pogroms led by some Congress activists and sympathizers after the assassination of Indira Nehru Gandhi |
| 1984 | Gandhi, Rajiv | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of India, after the death of his mother |
| Kashmir India rigs Kashmir elections and Kashmir separatists takes up arms |
| 31st Oct Bhopal A leak at the Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal causes 14,000 deaths |
| 31st Oct Delhi Over the next four days Sikhs are massacred in retaliatory pogroms led by some Congress activists and sympathizers after the assassination of Indira Nehru Gandhi |
| 31st Oct Delhi The then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi allegedly makes a statement "When a big tree falls, the earth is bound to shake" on the Sikh carnage |
| Nov 1,000 are killed during anti-Sikh riots |
| 3rd Dec Bhopal 2,000 are killed by a chemical spillage at a Union Carbide plant |
| 29th Dec Elected Prime Minister of India in aandslide victory |
| 1984 | Singh, Vishwanath Pratap | |
| Appointed Minister of Finance |
| 1986 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| 22nd Jan 3 Sikhs are sentenced to death for the assassination of Indira Gandhi |
| 1986 | Singh, Vishwanath Pratap | |
| Appointed Minister of Defense |
| 1987 | Gandhi, Rajiv | |
| India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in SriLanka's ethnic conflict |
| Sends a peacekeeping force to SriLanka at its Governments request |
| Colombo Signs the Tamil Colombo Peace Accord with SriLanka |
| Under the terms of the agreement Colombo agrees to a devolution of power to the provinces the SriLankan troops were withdraw to their barracks in the north, the Tamil rebels were to disarm |
| 11th May Punjab India imposes direct rule on the Punjab because of the threat of Sikh extremists |
| 29th July Colombo The Indo-SriLanka Peace Accord is an accord signed in Colombo between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and President J.R. Jayewardene |
| 29th July Colombo Under the terms of the agreement Colombo agrees to a devolution of power to the provinces the SriLankan troops were withdraw to their barracks in the north, the Tamil rebels were to disarm |
| 1987 | Singh, Giani Zail | |
| Death of Giani Zail Singh |
| 1988 | Gandhi, Rajiv | |
| The voting age is dropped from 21 to 18 |
| 1989 | Gandhi, Rajiv | |
| Allegations of corruption, known as the Bofors affair, causes Rajiv Gandhi's Congress to lose the elections |
| Rajiv Gandhi and several others are accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer |
| Rajiv Gandhi is the first Indian prime minister to visit Pakistan |
| Rajiv Gandhi's Congress is defeated in the 9th general elections |
| The case comes to light during Vishwanath Pratap Singh's tenure as Defence Minister, and is fueled by very sharp investigative journalism by Chitra Subramaniam of the newspapers The Hindu and Indian Express |
| The name of the middleman associated with the scandal is Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian businessman who represented the petrochemicals firm Snamprogetti, Quattrocchi is close to the family of Prime Minister Gandhi |
| 1989 | Singh, Vishwanath Pratap | | <
