Chronology of dates

Year/Date Event
1453 Constantinople fell into the hands of Ottoman Turks
1488 Bartholomew Dias reached Southern Tip of Africa
1492 Columbus discovered America
12 October Christopher Columbus landed at Bahamas
1492
17th May 1498 Vasco da Gama reached at Calicut
15th Century First Printing Press was invented by John Guttenberg in Germany
1510 Goa came under Portuguese Rule
1520 Ferdinand Magellan reached Spain.
Proved that earth is round by circumnavigating it.
1583 Cuncolim revolt
1600 East India Company was formed
1600-1732 England was successful in establishing control over 13 colonies in America.
1709 Abraham Darby invented Coke Smelting Process
1750-1850 First phase of Industrial Revolution
Last half of 18thBeginning of Mac Adamised Roads
C.
1757 Battle of Plassey(gave British stronghold in India)
1761 The first canal was dug from Worsley to Manchester to carry coal from the
mines to the furnaces
1763 Treaty of Paris signed between England and France
1763 British Govt. began to tighten their imperialist control over America
1764 Sugar Act
1764 Battle of Buxar(gave British right to collect Diwani)
1765 Stamp act
1767 Townshend act
1773 Tea act
1773 Boston Tea Party
1774 Louis XVI ascended the French throne
5 September First continental congress held at Philadelphia
1774
10 May 1775 Second continental congress held at Philadelphia
1775-1783 American War of Independence
4 July 1776 Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of American Independence
1777 Battle of Saratoga( A turning point of American war of Independence)
19th October Battle of Yorktown( George Washington accepted the surrender of Lord
1781. Cornwallis)
1783 Independence of America
1787 Pinto Revolt
1789 Summoning of Estates General
20th June 1789 Tennis court Oath
14th July 1789 Storming of Bastille
July 1789 Formation of National Assembly by the Third Estate
27 August 1789 Drafting of Declaration of rights of Man
1793 Louis XVI was executed
July 1794 Robespierre was arrested for his misdeeds and Executed
1794 Reign of Terror came to an end
1795 New Constitution was drafted which gave executive responsibility to
Directory
18th Century Prussia had defeated Austria twice
1802 Napoleon proclaimed himself as the first consul
1804 Napoleon became consul for life
1815 Congress of Vienna (the Vienna Settlement)
1819 Prussia signed a treaty with one of the small state(Zollverein)
1830 First railway line was laid between Manchester and Liverpool
1846 Pope Pius IX became the ruler of Rome
July 1848 National Assembly met at Frankfurt to deliberate on framing a constitution
(Frankfurt parliament)
1848 Period of revolution in Europe
1848 Discontent began in different parts of German Confederation
1848 King Charles Albert provided civil liberties and parliamentary form of
government.
1848 Lombardy and Venetia rose in revolt against Austria
23 March 1849 King Charles Albert was defeated by Austria at Novara
First half of Raja Ram Mohan Roy published three journals
19th Century
1850 Second phase of Industrial Revolution began
1850 Count Camillo Cavour was appointed minister of Commerce and Agriculture
of his native state, Sardinia
1852 Victor Emmanuel II appointed Count Camillo Cavour as the Prime Minister of
Piedmont
1852-1912 Rane Revolt
1853 First railway line was laid in India by Lord Dalhousie
1855 Cavour entered Crimean war on the side of Great Britain and France
1857 The First war of India’s Independence
1858 Queen’s Proclamation brought the administration of India under the aegis of
Queen Victoria of England.
1860 People of Sicily revolted against their king, Francis II of Naples
17 March 1861 Victor Emmanuel II assumed the Title of King of Italy
1861 William I ascended the throne of Prussia
1864 German war with Denmark
1864 Austro Prussian war
1866 Italy got most of Venetia after Prussia defeated Austria
1870 Unification of Italy was completed
1870-71 Franco Prussian War
1871 Rome became the capital of liberated and united Italy.
1871 Treaty of Frankfurt
January, 1871 William I became Kaiser ,Emperor of Germany
1857 First war of Independence
1879 Vasudev Balwant Phadke staged uprising the British rule
22nd June, 1897 Damodar Chaphekar shot W. C. Rand
28th December Formation of Indian national congress
1885
1885-1905 Era of Moderates
19th Century Prussia had made a mark by leading Germany in the war against Napoleon
1904 Sawarkar founded Abhinav Bharat
1905- 1920 Era of Extremists
1905 Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal
1905 Starting point of extremists policies in the Indian Politics
1906 Muslim League was formed
1907 Indian National Congress spilt at Surat session
1908-1911 A lull in the Indian Freedom struggle because most of the extremist were
arrested by the British government
1909 Morley Minto Reforms were passed
1915 Gandhiji returned from South Africa
1919 Montague Chelmsford Reforms was passed(Govt.of India act 1919)
13 April 1919 Jallianwala Baugh Massacre
1 August 1920 Lokmanya Tilak passed away
1 August 1920 Gandhiji launched Khilafat-Non-cooperation Movement
February 1922 Police opened fire on an unarmed crowd at Chauri Chaura
1923 Swaraj party was formed
1927 Simon Commission visited India
1929 Lahore session of Indian National Congress(mantle of Congress leadership
passed from Motilal Nehru to Jawaharlal Nehru)
26 January Decided to be celebrated as Independence day
1930
12 March, 1930 Dandi march began from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi
5 April, 1930 Gandhiji broke the Salt Act
4 May, 1930 Gandhiji was arrested for breaking Salt Act
1930 Goa Congress Committee took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement
5 March 1931 Gandhi-Irwin pact
January, 1932 Gandhiji was arrested and Indian National Congress was declared as an
illegal organisation
1939 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose quit Congress and formed Forward Bloc
March 1942 British P.M. sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India(Cripps Mission plan)
14 July 1942 Congress working Committee passed a resolution demanding the withdrawal
of the British power from India
8 August, 1942 The Quit India Resolution was passed
1942 Peter Alvares and Vishwanath Lawande participated in the Quit India
Movement
1945 Goa Seva Sangh was founded by Purushottam Kakodkar
1946 British P.M. Clement Atlee sent the Cabinet Mission to India
18 June 1946 Dr.Lohia arrived near the railway station in Margao
18 June Commemorated as Goa Revolution Day
16 August 1946 Muslim League decided to observe as Direct Action Day
2 September Lord Wavell announced the formation of an Interim Government
1946
September Dr.Lohia returned to Goa, arrested at Cllem
1946
March 1947 Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the Viceroy
3 June 1946 Mountbatten plan was announced
18 July 1947 British Parliament passed the Indian Independence Act
15 August 1947 India achieved Independence
26 January India became Republic
1950
1952 The First Five Year Plan
1953 Goa Action Committee was formed in Bombay under the chairmanship of Dr.
T.B.Cunha
1954 Goa Vimochan Samiti was established at Poona
15 August 1954 The National Congress Goa launched its first satyagraha in Goa
15 August 1955 Satyagraha was organized by the Goa Vimochan Samiti(around four thousand
satyagrahis from Kashmir, Punjab, Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka and
Maharashtra crossed the borders.
23 July 1959
Juntas de Freguesias(rural self government bodies) were established by the
Portuguese through the Portaria(Notification)no. 7575 of 23 rd July 1959
11 December V.K.Krishna Menon decided to use Military force(operation Vijay) to liberate
1961 Goa from Portuguese rule
12 December Two main routes that connected Goa to India, were sealed to help the
1961 movement of the Indian army
19 December Indian troops arrived at Panaji from Betim side.
1961 At 10 a.m. Major General K.P.Candeth hoisted the Indian National flag.
At 4 p.m. Indian soldiers captured Mormagao.
Portuguese Governor General Vassalo e Silva handed over the political power
to the Indian Government by signing the Instrument of Surrender.
Goa was liberated.
8 June 1962 Military rule in Goa was replaced by civilian government
24 September Consultative Council of 29 nominated members met for first time.
1962
1962 The President of India promulgated the Goa, Daman and Diu village
Panchayat Regulation, 1962
December 1963 The first general elections were held in Goa
9 January 1964 Assembly was convened in the Secretariat building(Adil Shah’s Palace)
1968 The functioning of the Municipalities in Goa is governed by the Goa
Municipalities Act, 1968 as amended in 1994 in light of the 74 th Amendment to
the Constitution
1976 The term of Lok Sabha was extended due to the ongoing National Emergency
30 May 1987 Goa, Daman and Diu Re-organisation Act( Goa became 25 th state of Indian
 Union)
30 May, 1987 High Court of Bombay became the common High Court for the states of
Maharashtra and Goa and the Union Territories of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and
Daman & Diu.
Number of seats in the assembly was increased from 30 to 40.
September 72nd Amendment Bill
1991
1992 73rd Amendment Act, 1992
1993 74th Amendment Act 1993
20 April 1993 73rd Amendment Act was notified by the Central Government through
Official Gazette
20 April 1994 The Goa Panchayati Raj Ordinance
25 May 1994 The Goa Panchayati Raj Bill
9 July 1994 The Goa Panchayat Raj Act was assented by the Governor of Goa
26 October The Goa Panchayati Raj act came into force.
1995
1998 12th Lok Sabha was elected
1999 12th Lok Sabha was dissolved
2002 The Corporation of the City of Panaji is governed by the ‘City of Panaji
Corporation Act, 2002’