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| 1945 | Ali, Asaf Indian National Congress Defence Committee |  |
| 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 |
| 1925 | Banerjea, Surendranath Death | |
| Death of Surendranath Banerjea |
| 1885 | Banerjea, Surendranath Indian National Congress | |
| Bombay Founds the Indian National Congress |
| Bombay Appointed Congress President, 1st term |
| 1909 | Banerjea, Surendranath Minto Morley Reforms | |
| Banerjea supports the Minto-Morley reforms, resented and ridiculed as insufficient and meaningless by the vast majority of the Indian public and nationalist politicians |
| 1898 | Banerjea, Surendranath President | |
| Appointed Congress President, 1st term |
| Appointed Congress President, 2nd term |
| 1905 | Banerjea, Surendranath Rule of Bengal | |
| Bengal One of the most important public leaders to protest the partition of the Bengal province |
| 1876 | Bonerjee, Surendranath Bengali, The | |
| 26th July Founds the newspaper, The Bengali |
| 1848 | Bonerjee, Surendranath Birth | |
| 10th Nov Calcutta Birth of Surendranath Banerjee |
| 1925 | Bonerjee, Surendranath Death | |
| 6th Aug Death of Surendranath Banerjee |
| 1876 | Bonerjee, Surendranath Indian National Association | |
| 26th July Founds the Indian National Association, the first Indian political organization of its kind |
| 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 |
| After the founding of the Congress in 1885 in Bombay, Banerjee merges his organization, Indian National Association, owing to their common objectives and memberships |
| 1885 | Bonerjee, Surendranath Indian National Congress | |
| 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 |
| 1922 | Das, Chitta Ranjan Indian National Congress | |
| 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 |
| 1945 | Desai, Bhulabhai Indian National Congress Defence Committee | |
| 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 |
| 1930 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru Arrest | |
| 4th May Arrested by the British |
| 4th Jan Arrested by the British |
| 1931 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru Conference of London | |
| London Attends the London Conference in a loin cloth |
| 1930 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru Demonstrations | |
| Leads the salt march 240 miles to the coast in defiance of the salt tax |
| 1931 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru Independence | |
| 26th Jan Released from prison to have discussions with the British |
| 1966 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru Indian National Congress | |
| 19th Jan A broad Congress Party election opts for Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, over the right-wing, conservative Morarji Desai |
| 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 |
| 1930 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru March Salt | |
| Leads the salt march 240 miles to the coast in defiance of the salt tax |
| 1932 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru National Congress | |
| 4th Jan The National Congress of India is declared illegal |
| 1966 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru President | |
| A broad Congress Party election opts for Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, over the right-wing, conservative Morarji Desai |
| 1922 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Indian National Congress | |
| 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 |
| 1920 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand National Congress | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1866 | Gokhale, Gopal Krishna Birth | |
| 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 |
| 1894 | Gokhale, Gopal Krishna Indian National Congress | |
| Gokhale had visits Ireland and arranges for an Irish nationalist, Alfred Webb, to serve as President of the Indian National Congress |
| 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 |
| 1885 | Hume, Allen Octavian Indian National Congress | |
| The Indian National Congress is jointly formed by Allen Octavian Hume |
| 1906 | Khan, Hakim Ajmal All India Muslim League Pakistan | |
| 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 All India Muslim League Pakistan | |
| 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 |
| 1885 | Naoroji, Dadabhai Indian National Congress | |
| 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 |
| 1929 | Nehru, Jawaharlal Independence | |
| 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 |
| 29th Jan The 26th January 1930 is declared as "Poorna Swaraj Diwas," Independence Day |
| 1945 | Nehru, Jawaharlal Indian National Congress Defence Committee | |
| 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 |
| 1929 | Nehru, Jawaharlal Indian National Congress | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1930 | Nehru, Jawaharlal Poorna Swaraj Diwas | |
| 29th Jan The 26th January 1930 is declared as "Poorna Swaraj Diwas," Independence Day |
| 1929 | Nehru, Jawaharlal President | |
| Appointed President of the INC |
| 1922 | Nehru, Motilal Indian National Congress | |
| 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 Indian National Congress | |
| 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 Indian National Congress | |
| 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 |
| 1964 | Shastri, Lal Bahadur Indian National Congress | |
| 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 President | |
| 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 |
| 1916 | Tilak, Bal Gangadhar Indian National Congress | |
| Tilak re-unites with his fellow nationalists and re-joins the Indian National Congress |
| 1906 | Viqar-ul-Mulk, Nawab All India Muslim League Pakistan | |
| 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 |
| 1885 | Wacha, Dinshaw Edulji Indian National Congress | |
| 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 |
