Modern India
,Year Event Description
The French and British East India Companies and their respe
1754
Indian allies were at war with each other
1757 Battle of Plassey
1757–1858 Company rule in India
1764 Battle of Buxar
1773 Warren Hastings becomes the first British governor-general
1767–1769 First Anglo-Mysore War
The company concluded peace with Hyder after the First M
1769
War- Treaty of Madras
20th October 1773 – 1st
Warren Hastings- First Governor-General of Bengal in 1772–
February 1785
,1775–1782 First Anglo-Maratha War
1780–1784 Second Anglo-Mysore War
1782 Death of Hyder Ali
1784 Treaty of Mangalore
12 September 1786 – 28 October 1793 Charles Cornwallis, Governor-General of I
1790-1792 Third Anglo-Mysore Wars- Treaty of Sering
1799 4th Anglo Mysore war- Death of Tipu Sulta
1802 Subsidiary alliance with Marathas
The Indian Rebellion against English East I
1857
Company
, Period Event Description
Different phases of the revolt of 'Sannyasins' and 'Fakirs' of
1763-1800
Bengal
1818-1831 The resistance of the Bhils in Khandesh and neighboring areas
1831-1832 Revolts of the Kols of Chota Nagpur
1855-1856 The Santhal Hool or Uprising
The Uprising of 1857, being the first wide-spread movement of
1857
different regions, classes, castes, and communities of India