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British Raj

British colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent (1858–1947)

22 dated entries naming British Raj, drawn from 21 separate years between 1815 CE and 1946 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1815April 21 – In India, the eastern part of the former Garhwal Kingdom is joined with Kumaon division, under the administration of the British Raj.source
  • 1822February 24 – The first Swaminarayan temple, Kalupur Swaminarayan Mandir at Ahmedabad in the British Raj, is inaugurated.source
  • 1837April - Peasants from Sullia and Puttur carried out Amara Sullia Rebellion against British Raj and took over South Canara administration for two weeks under the leadership of Kedambadi Ramaiah Gowda.source
  • 184324 March – Battle of Hyderabad: The Bombay Army led by Major General Sir Charles Napier defeats the Talpur Mirs, securing Sindh province for the British Raj.source
  • 1845May 30 – Fatel Razack (Fath Al Razack, 'Victory of Allah the Provider', قتح الرزاق) is the first ship to bring indentured labourers from India to Trinidad and Tobago, landing in the Gulf of Paria with 227 immigrants.source
  • 1850The first portion of the Oudh Bequest is transferred from Oudh State in the British Raj to the Shia Islam holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, in Persia.source
  • 1854The British Raj annexed Jhansi, Nagpur, and Oudh and began annexing Udaipur State, Chhattisgarhsource
  • 1857The first commercial tea plantation in the British Raj is opened in the Mulnicherra Estate in Sylhet.source
  • 1865Indian Forest Acts, 1865 and 1878 extended the British Colonial claims over forests in India.source
  • 186818 August - The element later named as helium is first detected in the spectrum of the Sun's chromosphere by astronomer Jules Janssen during a total eclipse in Guntur, India, but assumed to be sodium (on 20 October English astronomer Norman Lockyer identifies it).source
  • 1871October 12 – The Criminal Tribes Act is enacted by the British Raj in India, naming over 160 communities as "Denotified Tribes", allegedly habitually criminal (it will be repealed in 1949, after Indian independence).source
  • 187826 December - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1878 that opened up Goa to British Raj.source
  • 1886November 3 – In the British Raj, what will become one of the biggest boys' schools in Pakistan, Aitchison College, Lahore, is founded under the auspices of Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison.source
  • 1897July 26–August 2 – Siege of Malakand: British troops are besieged by Pashtun tribesmen in Malakand, on the Northwest frontier of British India (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan).source
  • 1897September 12 – Battle of Saragarhi: Twenty-one Sikhs of the 36th Sikhs regiment of the British Indian Army defend an army post to the death, against 10,000 Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen, in the Tirah Campaign on the Northwest frontier of the British Raj (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan).source

20th century

  • 1901March 1 – The 1901 Census of India is taken, the fourth, and first reliable, census of the British Raj.source
  • 1906December 30 – The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan.source
  • 1924October 25 – Authorities of the British Raj in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 21/2 years.source
  • 1927December 19 – Three members of the revolutionary movement for Indian independence – Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan – are executed by the British Raj. Rajendra Nath Lahiri had been executed two days before.source
  • 1931March 23 – Indian revolutionary leaders Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for conspiracy to murder in the British Raj.source
  • 1943February 10–March 3 – Mohandas Gandhi (under arrest by forces of the British Raj in Pune as a member of the Quit India Movement) keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.source
  • 1946September 2 – The Interim Government of India takes charge, with Jawaharlal Nehru as vice president, as part of the transition from the British Raj to full independence for India and Pakistan.source

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