History important dates
1848: Frederic Sorrieu a French artist prepared a series of four paintings visualising his dream of
a world made up of democratic and socialist republics.
1789: the French Revolution
1833: emergent travelling in 1833 from Hamburg to Nuremberg to sell his goods would have to
had to pass through 11 customs barriers and pay a custom duty of about 5% at each one of
them
1834: a customs Union of Zollverein was formed
1815: Napoleon was defeated
1815: the representatives of the European powers like Britain Russia prussia and Austria who
had collectively defeated Napoleon made at Vienna to draw up a settlement for Europe
1815: Vienna Convention
1807: Giuseppe Muzziniwas born.
1830: the first upheaval took place in France in July 1830
1821: the struggle of the greeks for their Independence began.
1824: English poet Lord Byron died in 1824
Treaty of Constantinople: 1832
1848: Paris was in a great trouble
After the year 1848: the autocratic monarchies of Central and Eastern Europe began to
introduce changes that had already taken place in western Europe before 1815
1867: the habsburg rulers granted more autonomy to the Hungarian
1871: the prussian king William 1 was proclaimed German emperor
1831 and 1848: the failure of Revolutionary Uprising
1859: sardinia and piedmont succeeded defeating the Austrian forces
1861: Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed the king of United Italy.
1707: the act of union between England and Scotland
Chapter 2
1918 to 1919 and 1920-21: crops failed in many parts of India resulting in acute shortage of
food.
1921 census: according to the census 12 to 13 million people were died because of famines and
epidemics
1915: Gandhi return to India
1917: Gandhi went to Champaran Bihar
1917: Kheda Satyagraha in Gujarat
1918: Ahmedabad mill Strike
1919: Rowlatt Act
13th April 1919:JallianwalaBagh massacre
1919:Khilafat committee was formed in Bombay
1909: Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj
Summer of 1920: Gandhiji and sawkat Ali to and extensively throughout the India
Nagpur session of 1920: non cooperation programme was adopted by the National
Congress
January 1921: the non cooperation Khilafat movement began
June 1920: Jawaharlal Nehru began going around the villages in awadh
in 1921: houses of talukdar and merchants were attacked
6th January 1921: the police in the united provinces fired at the peasants near Rae Bareli
1924: Raju was captured and executed
February 1922: Gandhi decided to withdraw the non cooperation movement
Agricultural prices began to fall from 1926 and collapsed after 1930
1928: Simon Commission arrived in India
October 1929: Lord Irwin offered Dominion status
December 1929: PurnaSwaraj was demanded
26 January 1930: independence day was celebrated for the first time
6th April 19 30: Salt Satyagraha was started
April 1930: angry crowds demonstrated in the streets of Peshawar
Gandhi Irwin pact: 5th March 1931
December 1931: the political leaders of Indian freedom struggle was released from jail
By 1934: the civil disobedience movement lost its momentum
1927: Indian Chamber of Commerce and industries was established
There was strike by railway workers in 1930 and dockworkers in 1932.
Poona pact: September 1932
1928: all party conference
1930: sir Muhammad Iqbal retired from the post of president of Muslim League
By 1921: Gandhiji had designed the Swaraj flag
14th July 1942: the historic Quit India Resolution was adopted by the Indian National Congress
Chapter 3
3000 BC: inactive coastal trade link the Indus valley civilization with the present day West Asia
By 1890: a global agricultural economy had taken shape
Till the 1870s: animals were shipped live from America to Europe
In 1885: the big European powers met in Berlin to complete the carving up of Africa between
them
Late 1880s: rinderpest arrived in Africa
1920s: the housing and consumer Boom of the 1920 created the basic of prosperity of the US
By 1929: the world would be plunged into a depression such as it had never experienced before
1929 to mid 1930: The Great Depression begin
By 1935: a modest economic recovery was underway in most industrial countries
Between 1928 and 1934: India’s exports and imports nearly Halved.
Chapter 4
1900: dawn of the century was written
1760: Britain was importing 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton to feed its Cotton Industry
By 1787: the import of cotton increased to 22 million pounds.
Up to 1840: cotton was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation
1781: James Watt improved the steam engine produced by newcomen and patented the new
engine in 1781
By the 1750s: the network controlled by Indian merchants was breaking down
1760s: the colonization of East India Company power after the 1760 did not initially lead to a
decline in textile exports from India
By the 1850s: reports from most weaving regions of India narrated stories of decline and
desolation
1854: the first cotton mill in Bombay came up
By 1874: the first spinning and weaving mill of Madras begin production
Between 1900 and 1912: cotton piece production in India doubled
Between 1900 and 1940: cloth production expanded steadily in India specially handloom
Chapter 5
From 594 ad: books in China were printed by wrapping paper
768 to 778ad: hand printing Technology introduced in Japan
868 ad: the first and oldest Japanese book printed
1295: Marco Polo returned to Italy
By 1448: Gutenberg perfected the printing press system
Between 1450 and 1550: printing press spread all over Europe
15 17: religious Reform mark Martin Luther Rote 95 theses criticizing many of the practices and
rituals of the Roman catholic churches
1930s: Great Depression
1579: first Tamil book was written in Kochin
1713: the first Malayalam book was printed
17 10: Dutch protestant Missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts
1821: SambadKaumudi begin to published Ram Mohan Roy
From 18 22: Jaam is Jahan numa and shamshul Akbar was started
1867: Deoband seminary was founded
1810: the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas came out from Calcutta
1871; gulamgiri was published
1878: the Vernacular Press Act
1907: Punjab revolutionaries were deported
