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| 1848 | Bonerjee, Surendranath |  |
| 10th Nov Calcutta Birth of Surendranath Banerjee |
| 1866 | Gokhale, Gopal Krishna | |
| 9th May Gokhale Birth of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, one of the founding social and political leaders during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Empire in India |
| 1876 | Bonerjee, Surendranath | |
| 26th July Founds the Indian National Association, the first Indian political organization of its kind |
| 26th July Founds the newspaper, The Bengali |
| 26th July Uses the INA to tackle the age-limit for Indian students appearing for ICS exams, attacks the racial discrimination perpetrated by British officials in India through speeches all over the country, which made him very popular |
| 1885 | Banerjea, Surendranath | |
| Bombay Founds the Indian National Congress |
| 1885 | Bonerjee, Surendranath | |
| After the founding of the Congress in 1885 in Bombay, Banerjee merges his organization, Indian National Association, owing to their common objectives and memberships |
| Bonerjee becomes the first President of the INC |
| Womesh Chandra Bonerjee becomes the first President of the INC |
| 28th Dec The first Session of INC is held from 28-31 December 1885, and is attended by 72 delegates |
| 1885 | Hume, Allen Octavian | |
| The Indian National Congress is jointly formed by Allen Octavian Hume |
| 1885 | Naoroji, Dadabhai | |
| Created by A. O. Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji & Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, the Indian National Congress becomes the nation's leader in the Independence Movement, with over 15 million Indians involved in its organizations and over 70 million participants |
| 1885 | Wacha, Dinshaw Edulji | |
| Created by A. O. Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji & Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, the Indian National Congress becomes the nation's leader in the Independence Movement, with over 15 million Indians involved in its organizations and over 70 million participants |
| 1894 | Gokhale, Gopal Krishna | |
| Gokhale had visits Ireland and arranges for an Irish nationalist, Alfred Webb, to serve as President of the Indian National Congress |
| 1898 | Banerjea, Surendranath | |
| Bombay Appointed Congress President, 1st term |
| 1904 | Banerjea, Surendranath | |
| Appointed Congress President, 2nd term |
| 1905 | Banerjea, Surendranath | |
| Bengal One of the most important public leaders to protest the partition of the Bengal province |
| 1906 | Gokhale, Gopal Krishna | |
| Gokhale and Tilak become the respective leaders of the moderates and the "extremists" (the latter now known by the more politically correct term, 'aggressive nationalists') in the Congress |
| 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 |
| 1906 | Khan, Hakim Ajmal | |
| 30th Dec Shahbagh The resolution to found the All Muslim League is moved by Nawab Salimullah which & seconded by Hakim Ajmal Khan |
| 1906 | Khan, Nawab Salimullah | |
| 30th Dec Shahbagh The founding meeting of the party during the annual All India Muhammadan Educational Conference in Shahbagh, Dhaka hosted by Nawab Salimullah Khan |
| 30th Dec Shahbagh The resolution to found the All Muslim League is moved by Nawab Salimullah which & seconded by Hakim Ajmal Khan |
| 1906 | Viqar-ul-Mulk, Nawab | |
| 30th Dec Shahbagh The founding meeting of the party during the annual All India Muhammadan Educational Conference in Shahbagh, Dhaka presided over by Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk |
| 1909 | Banerjea, Surendranath | |
| Banerjea supports the Minto-Morley reforms, resented and ridiculed as insufficient and meaningless by the vast majority of the Indian public and nationalist politicians |
| 1916 | Tilak, Bal Gangadhar | |
| Tilak re-unites with his fellow nationalists and re-joins the Indian National Congress |
| 1920 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| The All India Home Rule League elects Mahatma Gandhi as its President, in a year, the body meges into the Indian National Congress to form a united Indian political front |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1925 | Banerjea, Surendranath | |
| Death of Surendranath Banerjea |
| 1925 | Bonerjee, Surendranath | |
| 6th Aug Death of Surendranath Banerjee |
| 1929 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| Appointed President of the INC |
| 28th Dec Lahore The Lahore session under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru holds special significance as in this session "Poorna Swaraj" (complete independence) was declared as the goal of INC |
| 1930 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Leads the salt march 240 miles to the coast in defiance of the salt tax |
| 4th May Arrested by the British |
| 1930 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| 29th Jan The 26th January 1930 is declared as "Poorna Swaraj Diwas," Independence Day |
| 1931 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| London Attends the London Conference in a loin cloth |
| 26th Jan Released from prison to have discussions with the British |
| 1932 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| 4th Jan Arrested by the British |
| 4th Jan The National Congress of India is declared illegal |
| 1945 | Ali, Asaf | |
| INA Defence Committee, later INA Defence and Relief Committee, is established by the Indian National Congress to defend those officers of the Indian National Army who were to be charged during the INA trials |
| The committee declares the formation of the Congress ' defence team for the INA and includes famous lawyers of the time, including Bhulabhai Desai, Asaf Ali, Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1945 | Desai, Bhulabhai | |
| INA Defence Committee, later INA Defence and Relief Committee, is established by the Indian National Congress to defend those officers of the Indian National Army who were to be charged during the INA trials |
| The committee declares the formation of the Congress ' defence team for the INA and includes famous lawyers of the time, including Bhulabhai Desai, Asaf Ali, Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1945 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| INA Defence Committee, later INA Defence and Relief Committee, is established by the Indian National Congress to defend those officers of the Indian National Army who were to be charged during the INA trials |
| The committee declares the formation of the Congress ' defence team for the INA and includes famous lawyers of the time, including Bhulabhai Desai, Asaf Ali, Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1947 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| 29th Jan At the time of independence, the INC (led by Jawaharlal Nehru) becomes a major political organization in the country, and was established as the major political party |
| 1950 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| After the murder of Gandhi in 1948 and the death of Sardar Patel in 1950, Jawaharlal Nehru is the sole remaining iconic national leader, and soon the situation became so that Nehru was key to the political potency and future of the Congress |
| 1964 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| After Nehru's death in 1964, the party's future comes into question, no leader is competitive enough to touch Nehru's iconic status, so the second-stage leadership mustered around the compromise candidate, Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| 1964 | Shastri, Lal Bahadur | |
| After Nehru's death in 1964, the party's future comes into question, no leader is competitive enough to touch Nehru's iconic status, so the second-stage leadership mustered around the compromise candidate, Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| 1966 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| A broad Congress Party election opts for Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, over the right-wing, conservative Morarji Desai |
| 19th Jan A broad Congress Party election opts for Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, over the right-wing, conservative Morarji Desai |
| 1971 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| 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 |
