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Battle of Plassey
Answer: 1757
Battle of Buxar
Answer: 1764
First Battle of Panipat
Answer: 1526
Battle of Haldighati
Answer: 1576
Year of the Revolt (First War of Independence)
Answer: 1857
Indian National Congress founded in
Answer: 1885
Founder of the Indian National Congress
Answer: A. O. Hume
Partition of Bengal
Answer: 1905
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Answer: 13 April 1919
Gandhi's first satyagraha in India
Answer: Champaran (1917)
Non-Cooperation Movement began
Answer: 1920
Dandi (Salt) March
Answer: 1930
Quit India Movement
Answer: 1942
Vasco da Gama reached Calicut in
Answer: 1498
Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal
Answer: Shah Jahan
Founder of the Mughal Empire
Answer: Babur
Emperor who fought the Kalinga War
Answer: Ashoka
Harappa was discovered by
Answer: Daya Ram Sahni (1921)
Harappan site with a dockyard
Answer: Lothal
Lucknow Pact
Answer: 1916
Poona Pact
Answer: 1932
Founder of the Maurya Empire
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
Capital of the Maurya Empire
Answer: Pataliputra
Place where Buddha attained enlightenment
Answer: Bodh Gaya
Founder of Sikhism
Answer: Guru Nanak
Second Battle of Panipat
Answer: 1556
Third Battle of Panipat
Answer: 1761
Founder of the Arya Samaj
Answer: Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Founder of the Brahmo Samaj
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Simon Commission arrived in India
Answer: 1928
First Governor-General of independent India
Answer: Lord Mountbatten