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Chronological Events of Indian History

14th August 1947

30th January, 1948

INDO-PAK WAR (1947-1949)

26th JANUARY 1950

Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India

Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru became the first Prime Minister of India.

The Companies Act,1956

SINO-INDIAN WAR(1962)

Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru died on 27th May 1964.

Lal Bahadur Shastri succeeded Nehru as Prime Minister.

Indira Gandhi bacame the third Prime Minister of India in 1966.

The Third India Pakistan War(1971)


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In 1974, the Allahabad High Court found Indira Gandhi guilty of misusing government machinery for election purposes. Opposition parties conducted nationwide strikes and protests demanding her immediate resignation. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party called for general elections in 1977, only to suffer a humiliating electoral defeat at the hands of the Janata Party, an amalgamation of opposition parties.

Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress Prime Minister of India.

In 1979, the coalition crumbled and Charan

Singh formed an interim government. The Janata party had become intensely unpopular due to its internecine warfare, and the fact that it offered no leadership on solving India's serious economic and social problems.

2nd Time 14th January 1980

Operation Blue Star(1984)


Khalistan militants in the Golden TempleSikhs' most holy shrine - in Amritsar, the inadvertent deaths of civilians and damage to the temple building inflamed tensions in the Sikh community across India. This operation was ordered by Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

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October,1984

Two of Gandhi's Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, shot her with their service weapons in the garden of the Prime Minister's residence at 1 Safdarjung Road, New Delhi as she was walking past a wicket gate guarded by Satwant and Beant.

Mr. Rajiv Gandhi became the 6th Prime Minister of India

Anti-Sikh Riots(1984)

The Bhopal Gas Disaster


A gas leak incident in India, considered one of the world's worst industrial catastrophes. It occurred on the night of December 23, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited(UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal,Madhya Pradesh, India.

Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War(1987)

21st May 1991

Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated

MASTERMIND

Velupillai Prabhakaran

The Demolition of Babri Masjid was the destruction of the 16thcentury mosque of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India on December 6, 1992 by Hindu Karsevaks in an attempt to reclaim the land known as Ram Janmabhoomi. The demolition occurred after a religious ceremony turned violent and resulted in several months of intercommunal rioting between India's Hindu and Muslim c ommunities, causing the death of at least 2,000 people.

The Kargil War(Operation Vijay)


India May-June 1999 527 killed 1363 wounded Pakistan 4000 Killed 665+ wounded

2001 Gujrat Earthquake


The 2001 Gujarat earthquake occu rred on January 26, 2001, India's 52nd Republic Day, at 08:46 AM local time (3:16 UTC) and lasted for over two minutes.

Mumbai Attacks(2008)
The 2008 Mumbai attacks (sometimes referred to as 26/11) were 11 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India's largest city, by terrorists. 164 people were killed & atleast 308 people were wounded.

The Mastermind behind that attacks Hafeez Saeed

The only terrorist captured & Now jailed in Aurthur Road Jail,Mumbai(Sentenced to death still pending)
Ajmal Aamir Kasab

2011 Cricket World Cup

Manoj Ladhar Rahul Solanki Amar Shukla Saurav Shrivastava Gauhar Khan Mithun Ghosh

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