Day/Month Dates Dates Event
1787 American War of Independence
1914 1918 First World War
1917 Socialist revolution in Russia led to the creation of USSR
1919 ILO
1920 Nagpur Session of Congress
1939 1945 Second World War
1940 Late - Nuclear Programme initiated under the guidance of Homi J. Bhabha in India
1944 World Bank was created
1944 The Bombay Plan
August 1945 USA bombs Hiroshima (Little Boy) and Nagasaki (Fat Man)
Feburary 1945 23rd - Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan
May 1945 USSR flag in Reichstag, Berlin, Germany
1945 UN is formed
November 1946 4th - UNESCO
1946 UNICEF
August 1947 14-15th - Independence Day
November 1947 Standstill Agreement
March 1947 Asian Relations Conference (Jawaharlal Nehru)
1947 Proxy war between India and Pakistan armies over Kashmir
1948 1949 Blockade of Berlin and Airlift of supplies to citizens of West Berlin
June 1948 Maharaja of Manipur held elections
1948 WHO
April 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organisaton (NATO)
September 1949 Merger Agreement between Manipur and India
1949 India supports Indonesia's freedom struggle from colonialization
1949 Chinese Revolution
1950 1953 Korean War
1950 North Korea invaded South Korea
December 1951 1st FYP
December 1952 Separate Andhra state was created
August 1952 6th - National Development Council
1953 States Reorganisation Commission created
1954 Vietnamese defeats the French, Geneva Accord was signed
April 1954 29th - Panchsheel Agreement
1955 Warsaw Pact
1955 Bandung Conference
1956 Yugoslavia, India and Egypt world meeting
1956 States Reorganisation Act
1956 Britain attacks Egypt over the Suez Canal
1956 Official Chinese visit to India
1956 2nd FYP
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency
1958 1962 Berlin
1959 Dalai Lama comes to India
1960 Early- Congo
1960 Bombay splits into Gujarat and Maharashtra
1960 India-Pakistan Indus Waters Treaty (Jawaharlal Nehru and Ayub Khan)
April 1961 Nikita Khruchev and USSR scared that US will attack Cuba
1961 First NAM meeting in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1961 Berlin Wall was constructed
1961 3rd FYP
1962 Nikita Khruchev placed nuclear missiles in Cuba
October 1962 China attacks India in Aksai-chin and NEFA
November 1962 Department of Defence Production established
August 1963 5th - LTBT signed in Moscow
October 1963 10th - LTBT enforced
1963 Nagaland is created
1964 US preseident Johnson - Vietnamese Crisis
1965 Membership of UN expanded from 11 to 15
April 1965 Pakistan launches armed attacks in the Rann of Kutch area in Gujarat
August-September1965 Pakistan attacks Jammu and Kashmir
November 1965 Department of Defence Supplies
1966 Punjab becomes Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh
January 1966 Tashkent Agreement (Lal Bahadur Shastri and Ayub Khan)
July 1968 1st - NPT signed in Washington, London and Moscow
November 1969 SALT-I first round talks
March 1970 5th - NPT entered into force
1970 Operation Flood
August 1971 20 years Treaty of Frienship- USSR and India
1971 Early - Pakistani army arrested Sheikh Mujib, reign of terror over East Pakistan
December 1971 Full scale war in India and Pakistan
May 1972 26th - SALT-I signed in Moscow
October 1972 3rd - SALT-I comes into force
November 1972 SALT-II second round talks
1972 Meghalaya comes from Assam
1972 Manipur and Tripura are created
July 1972 3rd - Shimla Agreement (Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto)
May 1974 First Nuclear Explosion in India
1976 Both Vietnam were unified
1978 People's Democratic Party ceases power in Afghanistan
June 1979 18th - SALT-II signed in Vienna
1979 Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party
1987 Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh are formed
1988 Ceasefire between Soviet Union and Afghanistan
November 1989 9th - Berlin Wall was broken down
1989 Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan
1990 Shock Therapy
August 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait
1991 End of Cold War
July 1991 31st - START-I signed in Moscow
1991 Communist Part initiates Coup
December 1991 Russia, Belarus and Ukraine declared Soviet Union disbanded
1991 Yugoslavia broke apart
December 1991 8th - CIS (Russian Commonwealth) is formed
1992 UN adopts a resolution ?
January 1993 3rd - START-II signed in Moscow
1993 Georgia joins CIS
1995 World Trade Organisation was set up
January 1997 1st - Kofi Anan initiated an inquiry for how the UN should be reformed
1999 Early - Mashkoh, Dras, Kaksar (LoC points) and Batalik areas occupied by proclaimed 'Mujahideens'
May and June 1999 Kargil Conflict
2000 Revival of CIS countries
2000 Chattisgarh, Uttrakhand and Jharkhand are formed
2001 Indo-Russian Strategetic Agreement
March 2003 19th - USA initiates war on Iraq
September 2005 Member states come to celebrate 60 years of UN and discuss issues of its jurisdiction
2006 Lebanon Crisis
June 2006 Israel attacks Lebanon
August 2006 UN passed Lebanon Resolution
October 2006 Israel army withdraws Lebanon
June 2006 19th - Human Rights Council operational
2009 Arab Spring begins in Tunisia
August 2014 Abolition of Planned Commission
January 2015 NITI Aayog
January 2017 1st - Antonio Guterres becomes UN's Secretary General