1858
East India Company dissolved; rule of
Sub-continent
under
British
Crown (the
British Raj)
began, marks
formal end
of Mughal
Empire
1861
Birth
of
Rabindranath
Tagore
1862
Bahadur
Shah II
died, the
Mogul
dynasty ends
and
India
becomes a
British
colony
1869
Birth
of Mahatama
(Mohandas
Karamchand)
Gandhi (2nd
October).
1874
Great
Famine of
Bengal
1875
Arya
Samaj
founded by
Swami
Dayanand
Saraswati.
1877
Queen
Victoria
assumed the
title
Empress of
India.
1882
Mirza
Ghulam Ahmed
founded in
Punjab the
Islamic
missionary
movement of
the Ahmedis
who oppose
jihad,
believe that
Jesus died
in
Srinagar
and call for
a
non-violent
Islam
1885
Indian
National
Congress
founded in
Bombay
by Allen Octavian Hume.
1892
Swami
Vivekanand
traveled to
America
to attend
First World
Religious
Conference.
1897
Birth
of Subhash
Chandra Bose
(23rd Jan).
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