| Ancient
Period | Medieval Period | Modern Period
|
|
Chronology of Events : Modern
Indian History |
|
1757 | Battle
of Plassey: The British defeat Siraj-ud-daulah |
|
1760 | Battle
of Wandiwash: The British defeat the French |
|
1761 | Third
battle of Panipat: Ahmed Shah Abdali defeats the Marathas; Accession of Madhava
Rao Peshwa; Rise of Hyder Ali |
|
1764 | Battle
of Buxar: The British defeat Mir Kasim |
|
1765 | The
British get Diwani Rights in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa |
|
1767-1769 | First
Mysore War: The British conclude a humiliating peace pact with Hyder Ali |
| 1772 | Death
of Madhava Rao Peshwa; Warren Hastings appointed as Governor of Bengal |
| 1773 | The
Regulating Act passed by the British Parliament |
|
1774 | Warren
Hastings appointed as Governor-General |
|
1775-1782 | The
First Anglo-Maratha war |
|
1780-1784 | Second
Mysore War : The British defeat Hyder Ali |
|
1784 | Pitt's
India Act |
| 1790-1792 | Third
Mysore War between the British and Tipu |
|
1793 | Permanent
Settlement of Bengal |
|
1794 | Death
of Mahadaji Sindhia |
|
1799 | Fourth
Mysore War: The British defeat Tipu; Death of Tipu; Partition of Mysore |
| 1802 | Treaty
of Bassein |
| 1803-1805 | The
Second Anglo-Maratha war: The British defeat the Marathas at Assaye: Treaty of
Amritsar |
| 1814-1816 | The
Anglo-Gurkha war |
|
1817-1818 | The
Pindari war |
|
1817-1819 | The
last Anglo-Maratha war: Marathas finally crushed by the British |
| 1824-1826 | The
First Burmese war |
|
1829 | Prohibition
of Sati |
| 1829-1837 | Suppression
of Thuggee |
| 1831 | Raja
of Mysore deposed and its administration taken over by East India Company |
| 1833 | Renewal
of Company's Charter; Abolition of company's trading rights |
| 1835 | Education
Resolution |
| 1838 | Tripartite
treaty between Shah Shuja, Ranjit Singh and the British |
| 1839-1842 | First
Afghan war |
| 1843 | Gwalior
war |
| 1845-1846 | First
Anglo-Sikh war |
|
1848 | Lord
Dalhousie becomes the Governor-General |
|
1848-1849 | Second
Anglo-Sikh war : (Rise of Sikh Power) British annex Punjab as Sikhs are defeated |
| 1852 | Second
Anglo-Burmese war |
|
1853 | Railway
opened from Bombay to Thane; Telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra |
| 1857 | First
War of Indian Independence: The Sepoy Mutiny |
|
1858 | British
Crown takes over the Indian Government |
|
1861 | Indian
Councils Act; Indian High Courts Act; Introduction of the Penal Code |
| 1868 | Punjab
Tenancy Act; Railway opened from Ambala to Delhi |
|
1874 | The
Bihar Famine |
|
1877 | Delhi
Durbar: The Queen of England proclaimed Empress of India |
| 1878 | Vernacular
Press Act |
| 1881 | Factory
Act; Rendition of Mysore |
Winter: October to March.