1952
Independent India's First General Elections to the Lok Sabha.
1953
Conquest of Mt. Everest by Ten Zing and Edmund Hillary.
1956
States Reorganisation Act.
1957
Second General Elections to the Lok Sabha.
1961
Goa, Daman and Diu liberated from the possession of Portuguese.
1962
China's attack on India; Third General Election.
1964
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru died; Lal Bahadur Shastri took over as the
new Prime Minister.
1965
Indo-Pak War; Ceasefire.
1966
Tashkent Pact; Death of Lal Bahadur Shastri; Mrs. Indira
Gandhi took over as the new P.M.; Punjab divided; Formation of
Haryana
State.
1967
Fourth General Elections.
1968
Emergency lifted.
1969
Death of President Zakir Husain, V. V. Giri elected as new
President; Split in Congress; Nationalisation of 14 Banks.
1970
Fourth Lok Sabha dissolved; First atomic power station launched
at Tarapur.
1971
General Elections; Statehood to Himachal Pradesh; Indo-Pak
War, Birth of Bangladesh.
1972
New States of Meghalaya, Tripura and Manipur; Assam state
reorganised; Shimla Agreement; Death of C. Rajgopalachari.
1973
Nationalisation of Coal Mines; Mysore state renamed Karnataka.
1974
Nuclear explosion by India making her the sixth nuclear
power in the World; Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed took over as the fifth
President;
Sikkim granted associate statehood to India.
1975
Sikkim becomes the 22nd state of India; India enters space
age with the launching of Aryabhatta; Dr. Radhakrishnan
dies; First Internal Emergency in independent India.
1976
Diplomatic relations with China & Pakistan restored; Lok
Sabha extended for another year; 42nd Constitution Amendement
Bill
passed.
1977
Lok Sabha Elections; President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
died; Combination of four opposition parties named as Janata
Party
gets absolute majority; Mr. Morarji Desai became P. M.;
Emergency
lifted; N. Sanjiva Reddy elected President.
1979
India's Second satellite Bhaskara goes into
orbit; Resignation of Mr. Morarji Desai as P. M.; Mr. Charan
Singh
sworn in as the new P.M.; Lok Sabha dissolved and mid-term poll
announced;
Death of Loknayak Jay Prakash Narayan.
1980
General Elections to the Lok Sabha; Mrs. Gandhi returns
to Power; Formation of Bharatiya Janata Party; Six more
commercial
banks nationalised, Launching of first satellite into orbit,
Sanjay Gandhi died in air crash.
1981
India's first geostationary experimental communication
satellite, APPLE, launched, Bhaskara II launched.
1982
46th Amendement Bill passed by Lok Sabha, Agreement for Supply
of Mirage 2000.
1984
Rakesh Sharma is became India's first spaceman, Phu Dorjee
becomes the first Indian to scale Mt. Everest without oxygen;
Bachendri
Pal becomes the first Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest;
Operation
Bluestar in Punjab to flush out extremists and terrorists from
the
Golden Temple and from Gurudwaras; Mrs. Indira Gandhi
assassinated
by her own security guards, Rajiv Gandhi takes over as the new
P.M.,
More than 2,000 persons die due to the gas leakages in the Union
Carbide
factory in Bhopal, Eighth General Elections and Congress (I)
gets
massive majority.
1985
Lok Sabha passes Anti-defection Bill.
1986
India's first test tube baby `Indira' is born at Bombay.
1987
Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh declared 23rd and 24th state
of India,. Mr. R. Venkataraman sworn in as 8th President of
India.
1988
Six opposition parties and Jan Morcha launch National
Front. A new opposition party, the Janata Dal is launched
Bangalore with V.P. Singh as its Chairman.
1989
The Supreme Court of India settles compensation for the
Bhopal Gas tragedy victims at 470 million dollars. For the first
time
in the history of Parliament 73 M.Ps. resigned enmass.
1990
Upper age limit for the Civil Services Examination enhanced.
The Union Government decided to implement the Mandal Commission
report.
27 percent jobs to be reserved for Backward Classes.
1991
India allows U.S. military planes to refuel in country.
Rajiv Gandhi assassinated at Sriperumbdur, 45 km. from Chennai.
1992
Woman commission constituted, Narsimha Rao wins confidence
vote, Agreement on Tin Bigha, Babri Masjid demolished, Communal
riots envelope the country.
1993
Russian President Boris Yeltsin visits India, Bodoland problem
solved, Human Rights Commission set up.
1994
India successfully launches ASLV-D4. Surat declared
pleague hit. First heart transplantation in the country.
1995
SAARC Summit in New Delhi. Punjab C.M. Beant Singh assassinated.
1996
India-Bangladesh sign Ganga Water Pact.
1997
U.F. Govt. led by H.D. Deve Gowda resigns. India celebrates
50th year of its independence. Lok Sabha dissolved.
1998 Death sentence for 26 persons in Rajiv Gandhi assassination
case.
1999
Operation Vijay makes a headway in Kargil.
2000
India US Joint working group on counter terrorism.
TRAI ordinance promulgated.
2001
Summit in Agra with Pakistan, GSLV placed a satellite in
a Geosynchronous Transfer orbit, Launching of PSLV-C3, Attack on
the Parliament house, Missile Nag successfully test fired, Year
of Census; collect data of one billion plus population.
2002
POTA passed in joint session. Missile man Dr. A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam elected as 12th President of India, India's first
full-fledged
meterological satellite METSET was successfully launched from
Sriharikota.
2003
India and Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations,
Canada, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and EU Countries,
Iranian
President Moh. Khatami was the Chief Guest at India's
54th Republic Day Celebration, Brahmos, the supersonic, antiship
cruise missile successfully test fired. RESOURCESAT-I
sucessfully
launched, India-Thailand signed five agreement. Bodo,
Santhali,
Maithili & Dogri languages included in the 8th Schedule.
2004
Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee attended the 12th SAARC Summit
in Islamabad. President of Brazil was the Chief guest at India's
55th
Republic day. The Election Commission announces Lok Sabha
election.
NDA loses Lok Sabha elections. President appoints Dr. Man Mohan
Singh
new Prime Minister of India. Major Rajyvardhan Singh wins silver
medel
in olympic double trap event. India's first educational
satellite
EDUSAT launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
Vilas
Rao Deshmukh sworn in C.M. of Maharashtra.
2005
The Union Cabinet approves the National Rural Health
Mission, Noted film-maker, The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh,
launches
the National Legal Literacy Mission, in New Delhi, Punit Arora
takes
over as the first woman Vice-Admiral in the Navy, The Prime
Minister,
Manmohan Singh, launches the National Knowledge Commission,
Justice
Y.K. Sabharwal is sworn in Chief Justice of India, Uma Bharati
is
expelled from the BJP for `indiscipline', Raj Thackeray quits
the
Shiv Sena, Lal Krishna Advani resigns as BJP president.
2006
India-Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear facilities, 93rd
congress held in Hyderabad, Lahore-Amritsar Bus Service begins,
President
or APJ Abdul Kalam assent the constitution amendment bill
providing
reservation for the socially and educationally backward classes.
VAT implemented in 27 states. Domestic Violence Act, 2005 comes
into effect. Ban on child labour under the provisions of child
labour Act, 1986. Sachar Committee submitted report on Muslims.
Prithvi Interceptor Missile tested successfully. India-US Nuke
deal approved by the US Congress.
2007
INSAT-4B is successfully launched by Ariane-5 launcher from the
spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana. Sara Jane selected new
Miss India-world, 2007. PSLV-C8 Launched Italian Satellite in
space. Mayawati sworn in as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Ms.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil was sworn in as the first woman
President of India. Mohammad Hamid Ansari was sworn in as the
Vice-President of India. Ace Shooter Manavjit Singh Sandhu has
been awarded the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award,
2006. Lt. Gen. Deepak Kapoor has been appointed as the chief of
Army Staff. President rule in Karnataka.
