INDIA

1920: Akali Dal formed

1938: Congress Socialist Party formed
1941: Communist Party of India (CPI) formed
1944: Bombay Plan created
1947: Indian independence
Pakistan sent tribal infiltrators into Kashmir
Proxy War with Pakistan
1948: Hyderabad accession
Constitution amended (no dual-party membership)=>Socialist Party formed from
Congress
UN intervention in Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan
First UAF elections in India (held in Manipur)
1949: Manipur accession
Constitution adopted
1950: Constitution came into effect
Election Commission of India established
Planning Commission set up
1951: First five-year plan
Bhartiya Jana Sangh (BJS) formed
1952: First General Election (Nehru)
Separate Andra state formed
1953: States reorganisation commission formed
Panchsheel Agreement
Sheikh Abdullah dismissed by centre and detained
DMK enters politics
1955: Report of the commission
1956: Second five-year plan
States Reorganisation Act
1957: Second General Election (Nehru)
CPI victory in Kerala
1959: Congress dismissed CPI govt through Art 356
Dalai Lama sought refuge in India
1959: Mizoram famine
1960: Maharashtra and Gujarat formed from Bombay
Pakistan Indus water treaty signed
1961: Third five-year plan
Liberation of Goa
1962: Third General Election (Nehru)
Chinese invasion into India
Department of defence production established
1963: Nagaland formed
1964: Nehru passes away
CPI split into CPI and CPI-M
1965: Indo-Pak war
Department of defence supplies established
Jammu Kashmir constitution amended (1 st CM – Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq)
Anti-Hindi agitations
1966: Haryana and Himachal Pradesh formed from Punjab
Tashkent Agreement
Shastri passes away
Plan Holiday (three annual plans)
1967: Fourth General Election (Indira Gandhi)
10-point programme adopted by congress working committee
DMK comes to power in Tamil Nadu
Floor crossing by Gaya Lal
1968: P5 tries imposing NPT
1969: Zakir Hussain passes away
Congress splits into Congress (O) and Congress (R)
Nationalisation of banks
1970: Lok Sabha dissolved
Split verdict in Pakistan general election
1971: Fifth General Election (Indira Gandhi)
Abolition of privy purses
1972: Tripura, Meghalaya, Manipur formed
Shimla Agreement
1974: Railway strike; Protests in Gujarat and Bihar
Indira Gandhi reinstates Sheikh Abdullah as Jammu Kashmir CM
First nuclear explosion test (Smiling Buddha)
1975: People’s march to the parliament
Congress defeat in Gujarat SLA elections
Allahabad HC declares Indira Gandhi election invalid
Emergency declared
Sikkim resolution for integration with India
1976: SC ruling (right to life and liberty may be suspended during emergency)
Diplomatic relations with China restored
1977: Sixth General Election (Morarji Desai)
1978: BAMCEF formed
1979: Charan Singh becomes PM
Assam Student’s Union Anti-foreigner movement
Vajpayee visits China
1980: Seventh General Election (Indira Gandhi)
BJP formed from BJS
1982: Sheikh Abdullah passes away (Farooq Abdullah next CM and leader of NC)
1984: Operation Blue Star- Indira Gandhi is assassinated
Eighth General Election (Rajiv Gandhi)
1985: Punjab accord (Rajiv Gandhi-Longowal accord)
Assam accord
Shah Bano case
1986: Mizoram Peace Agreement (Rajiv Gandhi and Lal denga)
Muslim Women (protection of rights under Divorce) Act
Faizabad district court opened the mosque for Hindu worship
1987: Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh formed
Goa becomes a state (prev: UT)
Rigged SLA elections in Jammu Kashmir
1989: Ninth General Election (BJP- VP Singh)
Congress defeat (End of Congress system)
Militant movement for separate Kashmiri nation
1990: Chandra Shekhar becomes PM
1991: New economic policies
Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated
Narasimha Rao is PM
1992: Masjid is demolished
1997: BJP + Akali Dal (Badal) is Punjab
1998: Indian nuclear tests (Pokhran-II)
Vajpayee comes to power
1999: Kargil War
Masjid was demolished
2000: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand formed
2004: Fourteenth General Election (Manmohan Singh)
Entire country switched to EVM
2008: President’s rule in Jammu Kashmir
2014: Sixteenth General Elections (Modi)
Telangana formed
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed + BJP in Jammu Kashmir
2015: NITI Aayog established (1 Jan)
2016: First woman CM of Jammu Kashmir (Mahbooba Mufti)
2019: Seventeenth General Election (Modi)
Article 370 abolished (Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act)
Ayodhya verdict
INDIA MAP
Kerala: First communist govt. to be elected to power (Namboodiripad)
AK Gopalan
VK Krishna Menon
Tamil Nadu: CN Annadurai
K Kamaraj
EV Ramasami Naicker (Periyar)
Karnataka: Nijalingappa
Andra Pradesh: Potti Sriramulu
Sanjeeva Reddy
VV Giri
Maharashtra: SK Patil
Madhya Pradesh: Ambedkar
Gujarat: Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Morarji Desai
Punjab: Sant Harchand Singh Longowal
Master Tara Singh
Amrita Pritam
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Kanshi Ram
Haryana: Gaya Lal
Bihar: JP Narayan
BP Mandal
Karpoori Thakur
KB Sahay
Uttar Pradesh: Lal Bahadur Shastri
Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi
Charan Singh
Ram Manohar Lohia
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Jammu Kashmir: Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah
Bengal: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
PC Mahalanobis
Atulya Ghosh
Mizoram: Laldenga
Nagaland: Angami Zapu Phizo
Sikkim: Kazi Lhendup Dorji Khangasurpa

WORLD
1917: Socialist Revolution
1922: Treaty on the creation of Soviet Union
1939: Second world war begins
1941: Signing of Atlantic Charter
1942: 26 Allied nations sign the ‘Declaration by UN’ in Washington DC
1943: Tehran Conference Declaration of the 3 powers (US, Britain, Soviet)
1944: World Bank est.
1945: Marshall plan (OEEC est.)
NATO est.
Yalta Conference
Signing of UN charter
UN est. (Oct 24)
India joins UN (Oct 30)
1949: PRC est.
Council of Europe est.
1951: Treaty of Paris (ECSC est.)
1957: Treaty of Rome (EEC, Euratom est.)
IAEA est.
1959: Antarctic Treaty
1967: Bangkok declaration (ASEAN est.)
1972: China-USA relations established (end of Chinese isolation)
Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty
1973: 4-modernisations proposed by Zhou Enlai
Denmark, UK, Ireland join EC
1975: World Council of indigenous peoples est.
1978: ‘Open-door’ policy introduced by Deng Xiaoping
1979: First elections in European Parliament
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1981: Greece joins EC
1985: Schengen Agreement (border control abolished)
Gorbachev elected as Sec Gen of Communist Party
Yeltsin appointed as head of Comm. Party
1986: Spain, Portugal join EC
1987: Brundtland Report (Montreal Protocol)
1988: Independence movements in the Baltic states (Lithuania first)
1989: Berlin Wall falls
Warsaw pact members free to decide their futures
1990: Unification of Germany
Gorbachev permits multi-party politics
Yeltsin becomes president
Russia, Lithuania declare independence
1991: Coup against Gorbachev
Baltic states become UN members
CIS est.
1922 Treaty annulled (fall of Soviet Union)
Yugoslavia civil war
Antarctic Environmental Protocol
1992: Treaty of Maastricht (EU est.)
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (Agenda 21)
UNFCCC (UN framework convention on climate change)
1994: ASEAN Regional Forum est.
UN trusteeship council suspended
1995: WTO est.
Austria, Finland, Sweden join EU
1997: Kyoto protocol
2001: 9/11 bombings
China joins WTO
Indo-Russia strategic agreement
Civil war in Tajikistan ends
First WSF meeting (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
2002: Euro introduced
2003: ASEAN Community est.
2004: Post-soviet nations join the EU
2006: UNHRC est.
2007: Bulgaria, Romania join EU
2009: Lisbon Treaty (EU est. as separate legal entity)
2010: ASEAN-India FTA
2012: EU wins Nobel peace prize
2013: Croatia joins EU
2014: ‘Act East’ Policy
2016: Brexit