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| 1757 | Jafar, Mir |  |
| Appointed Nawab by Clive after he relieves Calcutta & wins the battle of Plassey |
| 1780 | Singh, Ranjit | |
| Gujranwala Birth of Ranjit Singh |
| 1787 | Conway, Thomas |  |
| Appointed Governor of the French possessions in India |
| 1800 | Harrison, William Henry |  |
| Indiana Appointed Governor of Indiana |
| 1801 | Singh, Ranjit | |
| 12th April Ranjit Singh takes the title of Maharaja (to coincide with Baisakhi day). a descendant of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, conducts the coronation ceremony |
| 1802 | Singh, Ranjit | |
| Amritsar Leads the Sikhs into Amristar |
| 1806 | Elliot |  |
| Appointed Governor General of India |
| 1818 | Singh, Ranjit | |
| Multan Captures the province of Multan which encompasses the southern parts of Punjab, Peshawar |
| 1819 | Singh, Ranjit | |
| Jammu Captures Jammu and Kashmir |
| Kangra Captures the hill states north of Anandpur, the largest of which is Kangra |
| 1847 | Ramsay | |
| Appointed Governor General of India, 1st term |
| 1848 | Ramsay | |
| Appointed Governor General of India, 2nd term |
| 1884 | Prasad, Rajendra | |
| Birth of Rajendra Prasad |
| 1888 | Lansdowne | |
| Appointed Viceroy of India |
| 1907 | Sinha | |
| Bengal Appointed Advocate General of Bengal, 1st term |
| 1909 | Sinha | |
| Appointed Member of the Executive Council |
| 1913 | Reddy, Neelam | |
| Birth of Neelam Reddy |
| 1915 | Sinha | |
| Appointed Advocate General of Bengal, 2nd term |
| 1918 | Sharma, Shankar Dayal | |
| Birth of Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 1919 | Sinha | |
| Appointed Member of the Imperial War Conference in London |
| Appointed Under Secretary of State for India |
| 1921 | Banerjea, Surendranath | |
| Appointed Minister of Local Self-Government |
| 1924 | Das, Chitta Ranjan | |
| Calcutta Appointed Mayor of Calcutta |
| 1931 | Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul | |
| 15th Oct Dhanushkodi Birth of Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul Kalam |
| 1934 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Jalgaon Birth of Pratibha Patil |
| 1936 | Hope | |
| Appointed Governor General of India |
| 1943 | Bose, Subhas Chandra | |
| Declares the formation of the Provisional Government of Free India |
| 21st Oct Declares the formation of the Provisional Government of Free India |
| 1946 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| 2nd Sep Appointed Vice President of India to the Viceroy Lord Wavell |
| 1947 | Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji | |
| Appointed Minister of Law |
| Plays a Major part in drafting the Indian Constitution |
| 1947 | Menon, Vengalil Krishan Krishna | |
| Appointed High Commissioner in London |
| 1947 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of India, the first under Indian independence |
| Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal bloodshed after partition |
| Tibet requests India to return land annexed by India as part of several Indian states |
| 15th Aug 1st day of the existence of the Dominion of India |
| 15th Aug Mountbatten announces his intention to resign as Governor General of India |
| 1947 | Prasad, Rajendra | |
| Appointed Minister of Food |
| 1948 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Sri Lanka SriLanka becomes independent and the government of Don Stephen Senanayake revokes the citizenship of the Tamil minority |
| Kashmir India refuses to allow the plebiscite in Kashmir and Kashmir separatism is born (40,000 people will die in 55 years) |
| 12th Jan Gandhi 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 |
| 15th Aug Independence day for India |
| 1949 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Kashmir A ceasefire is established in Kashmir |
| India become a republic within the Commonwealth |
| India signs a treaty with Bhutan to conduct its foreign policy |
| Sikkim To quell an uprising, India invades the independent country of Sikkim |
| 1st Jan Kashmir The UN establishes a truce line, 2/3 of Kashmir remains Indian |
| 1950 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Mao's China invades Tibet |
| 8th April India & Pakistan sign the Delhi Pact committing to uphold the rights of minorities |
| 1950 | Panikkar, Kavalam Madhava | |
| Peking Appointed Ambassador to China |
| 1950 | Prasad, Rajendra | |
| 26th Jan Appointed President of India, 1st President of India |
| 26th Jan India becomes a republic, styled "India, that is Bharat" |
| 26th Jan The Indian Constitution is formally adopted |
| 26th Jan The Republic of India is inaugurated with Prasad as President |
| 28th Jan The Likud Party wins 38 of the 120 seats, the most of all the parties |
| 1952 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| 1st Mar India's 1st general elections |
| 1952 | Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli | |
| Appointed Vice President of India |
| 1952 | Shastri, Lal Bahadur | |
| Appointed Minister of Railways |
| 1955 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Polygamy is abolished in India |
| 24th April Bandung 10-point "declaration on promotion of world peace & cooperation" |
| 1956 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Prime minister Nehru of India fosters a neutral stance between communism and capitalism and founds the Non-Aligned Movement |
| The Indian states are organized on a linguistic basis |
| 1957 | Menon, Vengalil Krishan Krishna | |
| Appointed Minister of Defense |
| 1957 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Kashmir India annexes Kashmir |
| 1961 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| India invades the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Daman and Diu |
| Pakistani president Ayub Khan signs a cooperation pact with the USA to counterbalance Soviet influence in India |
| 1962 | Husain, Zakir | |
| Appointed Vice President of India |
| 1962 | Menon, Vengalil Krishan Krishna | |
| Resigns after India's defeat in the Indo-Chinese War |
| 1962 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Jalgaon Voted "College Queen" of Mooljee Jaitha (MJ) College in Jalgaon |
| Jalgaon Wins her first elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Jalgaon |
| 1962 | Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli | |
| 13th May Appointed President of India |
| 1963 | Prasad, Rajendra | |
| Death of Rajendra Prasad |
| 1964 | Shastri, Lal Bahadur | |
| 2nd June Appointed Prime Minister of India, India's 2nd Prime Minister |
| 1966 | Shastri, Lal Bahadur | |
| 11th Jan Tashkent Death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, at the Indo-Pakistan summit |
| 11th Jan Death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, suffers a fatal heart attack |
| 1967 | Husain, Zakir | |
| 15th Feb The ruling Congress Party sustains heavy losses |
| 13th May Appointed President of India |
| 1967 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed Deputy Minister for Education after re-election |
| 1969 | Giri, Varahgiri | |
| Appointed President of India |
| 1971 | Roa, Narasimha | |
| Appointed Chief Minister of the federal state of Andhra Pradesh |
| 1972 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed Cabinet Minister, Social Welfare, Government of Maharashtra |
| 1974 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed Cabinet Minister, Public Health & Social Welfare, Government of Maharashtra |
| 1975 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed Cabinet Minister, Prohibition, Rehabilitation and Cultural Affairs, Government of Maharashtra |
| 1975 | Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli | |
| Death of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 1977 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed Cabinet Minister, Education, Government of Maharashtra |
| 1977 | Reddy, Neelam Sanjiva | |
| Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, a Janata leader is elected the President of India upon the death of the incumbent Fakhruddin Ahmed |
| 1977 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Vajpayee, the most senior BJS leader, becomes Minister for External Affairs |
| 1978 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| When the Congress (Urs) come to power in Maharashtra, Appointed Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly |
| 1979 | Reddy, Neelam Sanjiva | |
| Charan Singh gives up his frantic efforts to form a government, and President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy calls fresh elections in January 1980 |
| 1979 | Singh, Charan | |
| Charan Singh gives up his frantic efforts to form a government, and President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy calls fresh elections in January 1980 |
| June Charan Singh is retained as the caretaker Prime Minister and holds the dubious distiction of being the only Prime Minister to not face Parliament. |
| June Retaining some coalition partners, Charan Singh is sworn in as the new Prime Minister, as leader of the BLD and the new Janata (Socialist) |
| 1980 | Roa, Narasimha | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister, 1st term |
| 1981 | Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul | |
| Awarded the Padma Bhushan |
| 1982 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed Cabinet Minister, Urban Development and Housing, Government of Maharashtra |
| 1983 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed Cabinet Minister, Civil Supplies and Social Welfare, Government of Maharashtra |
| 1985 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Joins the Rajya Sabha, and is elected Deputy Chairperson from November 1986 to November 1988 |
| 1985 | Roa, Narasimha | |
| Appointed Minister for Human Resources |
| 1986 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed Chairman, Committee of Privileges, Rajya Sabha; Member, Business Advisory Committee, Rajya Sabha |
| 1987 | Venkataraman, Ramaswamy | |
| 25th July Appointed President of India, 8th President of the Republic of India |
| 1988 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee |
| 1988 | Roa, Narasimha | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister, 2nd term |
| 1989 | Singh, Vishwanath Pratap | |
| Forms a minority government |
| 1990 | Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul | |
| Awarded the Padma Vibhushan |
| 1990 | Kumar, Ntish | |
| 30th Oct Appointed Union Minister of State for Agriculture |
| 1991 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Appointed Chairman, House Committee, Lok Sabha |
| 1991 | Roa, Narasimha | |
| Economic reform programme begun by Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao |
| June The 10th general elections sees Congress government return under P.V. Narasimh Rao |
| 17th June Appointed Prime Minister of India after elections return a hung Parliament |
| 1992 | Roa, Narasimha | |
| 26th June Tin Bigha India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh |
| 1992 | Sharma, Shankar Dayal | |
| 25th July Appointed President of India |
| 1996 | Reddy, Neelam | |
| Death of Neelam Reddy |
| 1997 | Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul | |
| Awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour |
| 1997 | Narayanan, Kocheril Raman | |
| 14th July Appointed President of India |
| 1998 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of India |
| BJP forms coalition government under Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee |
| Congress suffers worst ever defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP becomes the largest party |
| 1999 | Narayanan, Kocheril Raman | |
| Kargil Kashmiri freedom fighters mounted into the Indian-controlled Kargil region of Kashmir |
| Kargil Pakistan forced the Kashmiri freedom fighters to withdraw under American pressure |
| 1999 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Kashmir Escalation of violence in Kashmir between Indian troops and freedom fighters backed by Pakistan |
| Feb Lahore Makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to sign bilateral Lahore peace declaration |
| Oct Orissa Cyclone devastates eastern state of Orissa, leaving at least 10,000 dead |
| 2000 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| May India marks the birth of its billionth citizen |
| 2001 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Jan Gujarat Earthquakes hit western state of Gujarat, leaving at least 30,000 dead |
| Sep USAlifts sanctions imposed against India and Pakistan after they staged nuclear tests |
| Oct Kashmir India fires on Pakistani military posts |
| Dec Kashmir A suicide squad attacks parliament in New Dehli |
| Dec India imposes sanctions against Pakistan |
| Dec India, Pakistan mass troops on common border amid mounting fears of a looming war |
| 2002 | Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul | |
| July Elected President |
| 25th July Appointed President of India, 12th President of India |
| 25th July Sworn in as President of India |
| 2002 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Feb Ayodhya More than 800, mainly Muslims, die in revenge killings by Hindu mobs |
| Feb Ayodhya Muslims set fire to a train carrying Hindus returning from pilgrimage to Ayodhya |
| May Kashmir Kashmiri separatist leader Abdul Gani Lone shot dead in Srinagar by Islamist militants |
| May Kashmir More than 30 people killed in raid on Indian army camp in Kashmir |
| June India & China reach de facto agreement over status of Tibet and Sikkim |
| June The UK & USAurge their citizens to leave India and Pakistan |
| Aug Bombay At least 50 people are killed in two simultaneous bomb blasts in Bombay |
| 2003 | Agarwal, Sudarshan | |
| 7th Jan Uttaranchal Appointed Governor of Uttaranchal |
| 2003 | Deshmukh, Vilasrao | |
| 15th Jan Maharashtra Resigns as Chief Minister of Maharashtra |
| 2003 | Shinde, Sushil Kumar | |
| 15th Jan Maharashtra Appointed Chief Minister of Maharashtra |
| 2003 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Nov Kashmir India matches Pakistan's declaration of a Kashmir ceasefire |
| Dec India & Pakistan agree to resume direct air links and to allow overflights |
| 2004 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| 2nd Nov Rajasthan Appointed Governor of Rajasthan |
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