India History Timeline: 1851 - 1900 |
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| 1851-1855 | Governor-General of India : James Andrew Broun-Ramsay (1848–1856) | The Government Museum is established in Madras (1851) The Photographic Society of Bombay is founded (1854) |
Calcutta, Madras and Bombay universities are opened. (1857) | Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.(1851) First double-decker bus (1851) George Cayley invents a manned glider.(1853) Formation of Republican Party in US (1854) |
On Saturday April 16, 1853, the first
Indian commercial passenger train steamed off from Bori Bunder to Thana a distance of 34 km. A steam loco, Thomason, had been used for hauling construction material in Roorkee for the Solani viaduct since 22nd December 1851
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| 1856-1860 | Governor-General of India : Charles John Canning (1856–1858) Charles John Canning (1858–1862) |
First War of Indian Independence (1857) | Schools of art are opened in Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta (1850s) | Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.(1856) Britain and China are at war (1856) |
Birth of Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856) Death of Mangal Pandey (1857) Death of Rani Lakshmibai (1858) |
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| 1861-1865 | Governor-General of India : James Bruce (1862–1863) Sir Robert Napier (1863) Sir William Denison (1863–1864) |
A History Of India |
Birth of Rabindranath
Tagore (1861)
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Lucknow, Nagpur, Lahore and Bangalore museums are opened (1860- 1865) | Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle.(1861) American Civil War begins (1861) Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.(1862) Lincoln assassinated (1865) |
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| 1866-1870 | Governor-General of India : Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence (1864–1869) Richard Southwell Bourke (1869–1872) |
People of India is published by the government of India (1868) | The Archaeological Survey of India is established (1870) | Invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel(1866) Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.(1867) Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.(1868) Suez Canal opened (1869) |
Earthquake of magnitude 7.5 hits Assam (1869 Jan 10) The first submarine telegraph cable from UK landed in Bombay. (1870) |
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| 1871-1875 | Governor-General of India : Sir John Strachey (1872) Francis Napier (1872) Thomas George Baring (1872–1876) |
Raja Ravi Varma won the First Prize at the Madras Painting Exhibition (1873) | The Victoria and Albert Museum opens in Bombay (1872) The stupa at Barhut is uncovered. (1873- 1874) |
Opening of Brooklyn Bridge (1872) Development of first color photographs (1873) |
Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel is born in Nadiad (1875 Oct 31) Arya Samaj was founded by Swami Dayananda in 1875 |
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| 1876-1880 | Queen Victoria was made the Empress of India (1877) Governor-General of India : Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1876–1880) |
Mayuram Vedanayakam Pillai wrote the first Tamil novel Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram (1879) | The Victoria Terminus in Bombay is constructed (1878 - 1887) | Graham Bell invents the telephone (1876) Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.(1880) |
Dominance Without Hegemony: History & Power in Colonial India |
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| 1881-1885 | Governor-General of India : George Frederick Samuel Robinson (1880–1884) Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1884–1888) |
INC (Indian National Congress) is formed (1885) | Mahakavi Bharathiar (1882-1921) introduced a new poetic
style in Tamil poetry writing
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.(1881) Pasteur invents rabies vaccine (1885) Harim Maxim invents the machine gun.(1885) Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle. (1885) |
Birth of Veer
Savarkar (1883) |
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| 1886-1890 | Governor-General of India : Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (1888–1894) | Lumiere Brothers Cinematographe unveiled six soundless short films at Bombay (1886) |
The Essential Writings Of Jawaharlal Nehru |
Trichur, Udaipur, Bhopal, Madras, Rajkot, Pune, and Lahore Museums are opened (1887-1894) | Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle. (1886) William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, builds the first motion-picture camera and names it the Kinetograph (1889)
Picasso paints Le picador (1889-1890)
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Death of Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa (1886)
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| 1891-1895 | Governor-General of India : Victor Alexander Bruce (1894–1899) | Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.(1891) Discovery of x-rays by Rontgen (1895) |
A History of India |
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| 1896-1900 | Governor-General of India : George Nathaniel Curzon (1899–1904) | Advertisement appears in the Times of India, inviting people to witness "the wonder of the world," Lumiere Brothers' moving pictures (July 7, 1896) | Chandrakanta written by Devaki Nandan Khatri. |
Religious Revivalism As Nationalist Discourse: Swami Vivekananda and New Hinduism in Nineteenth-Century Bengal |
Marie Curie discovers the radioactive elements radium and polonium (1898) Modern Olympics held in Athens (1896)Nobel Prizes established (1896) Boxer Rebellion in China (1900) |
Birth of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (1897) Ramakrishna Mission is founded by Swami Vivekananda (1897) |
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