Chapter 1: The rise of nationalism in Europe
• 1848: Frederic Sorrieu, A French artist prepared a
series of four paintings visualizing 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 customs
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 Mazzini was 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
• 1832: Treaty of Constantinople
• 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 Kaiser William 1 was
proclaimed German emperor
• 1831 and 1848: The failure of revolutionary uprising
• 1859: Sardinia-piedmont succeeded in defeating
the Austrian forces
• 1861: Victor Emmanuel 2 was proclaimed the King
of United Italy
• 1707: The act of union between England and
Scotland
Chapter 2: Nationalism in India
• 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 died because of famines and
epidemics
• 1915: Gandhi returned to India
• 1917: Gandhi went to Champaran, Bihar
• 1917: Kheda Satyagraha in Gujarat
• 1918: Ahmedabad mill strike
• 1919: Rowlatt Act
• 13th April 1919: Jallianwala Bagh massacre
• 1919: Khilafat committee was formed in Bombay
• 1909: Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj
• Summer of 1920: Gandhiji and Shaukat Ali to and
extensively throughout 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: Alluri Sitaram Raju was captured and
executed
• February 1922: Gandhi decided to withdraw the
non-cooperation movement
• 1926-1930: 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: Purna Swaraj was demanded
• 26 January 1930: Independence Day was
celebrated for the first time
• 6th April 1930: Salt Satyagraha was started
• April 1930: Angry crowds demonstrated in the
streets of Peshawar
• 5th March 1931: Gandhi-Irwin pact
• 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
• 1930-1932: There was strike by railway workers in
1930 and dockworkers in 1932
• September 1932: Poona pact
• 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 Movement
was adopted by the Indian National Congress
Chapter 5: Print Culture and the Modern
World
• From 594 ad: Books in China were printed by
wrapping paper
• 768 to 778 ad: Hand printing technology introduced
in Japan
• 868 ad: The first and oldest Japanese book printed
(Diamond Sutra)
• 1295: Marco Polo returned to Italy
• By 1448: Gutenberg perfected the printing press
system
• Between 1450 and 1550: Printing press spread all
over Europe
• 1517: Religious reformer Martin Luther wrote 95
theses criticizing many of the practices and rituals
of the Roman Catholic churches
• 1930s: Great Depression
• 1579: First Tamil book was written in Cochin
• 1713: The first Malayalam book was printed
• 1710: Dutch protestant Missionaries had printed 32
Tamil texts
• 1821: Sambad Kaumudi was published by Ram
Mohan Roy
• From 1822: Jam-i-Jahan Nama and Shamshul
Akhbar was started
• 1867: Deoband Seminary was founded
• 1810: Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas came out from
Calcutta
• 1871: Gulamgiri was published
• 1878: The Vernacular Press Act
• 1907: Punjab revolutionaries were deported
