Indian Independence Timelkine

1920 – Mahatma Ghandhi leads the congress and the non-corporation movement

1922 – civil disobedience movement

1928 – Simon commission come to India and boycott by all parties

1929 – Lord Irwin viceroy of India promises dominion statues for India

1930 – Civil disobedience movement continues its protest including the salt march lead by Gandhi and the first round table conference

1931 – second round table conference including Lord Irwin and Gandhi making a pact, and the census of India

1932 – British government crackdown on the Civil disobedience movements

1934 – The civil disobedience moment was stopped internally due to the pressures done by the British

1935 – The government of India act receives royal assent from the governor general

1937 – elections held for provincial assemblies

1938 Gandhi and Jinnah negations for the settlement of communal problem which failed. And the Muslim league forms a committee of enquiry into alleged congress persecution of Muslims

1939 – India goes to war against Germany for the British. Viceroy Linlithgow offers amendments to the 1935 act at the end of the war with the help of India and its princes.

22nd of December known as ‘deliverance day’ from the congress ruled by the Muslim league

1940 – Lahore demands of the Muslim league for separate state from India

May 10th – Churchill becomes prime minister

17th October Congress launches civil disobedience

1941 - Congress Civil disobedience sets prisoners free

1942 – Subhas Chandra Bose forms the Indian national army

8 – 9th of August – Gandhi and some in the working committee are arrested

1944 – Gandhi and Jinnah’s talks fail and come to an end

1945 – 7th of May Germany Surrenders

15th of June congress members are released from imprisonment

26th of July labor government comes into control in Britain heavily effecting India’s workforce as the country tries to recover from the second world war

1946 – Cabinet mission visits India

16th of August ‘Direct Action Day’

16th-18th of August the ‘Great Calcutta killing’

2nd of September congress forms the interim government and Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the vice president

4th of July Indian Independence bill is published

18th of July Indian independence bill receives royal assent from Britain meaning they are now independent form Britain.

11th of August Jinnah is elected president

15th of August power transferred and the partition of India and Pakistan happened as well as independence day celebrations