Important Years in Indian Polity

Name of the event	Year
Setting up of first municipal corporation in India (in Madras)	1687-88
Regulating act	1773
Pitt’s India act	1784
Introduction of Budget	1860
Lord Rippon’s resolution	1882
Royal Commission on Decentralization	1907
Morley Minto Reforms	1909
Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms	1919
Simon Commission	1927
Resolution of Poorna Swaraj at Lahore session of INC	1929
Communal award	1932
idea of a Constituent Assembly for India was put forward for the first time in	1934
Indian National Congress officially demanded for constituent assembly	1935
Elections under Government of India act-1935	1937
Establishment of federal court	1937
August offer of British government	1940
Cripps Mission	1942
India Became member of UNO	1945
Cabinet Mission	1946
First meeting of constituent assembly	Dec 9th 1946
Election of Rajendra Prasad as president of Constituent assembly	Dec 11th 1946
Nehru moved Objectives of resolution on	Dec 13th 1946
Adoption of objectives of resolution	Jan 22nd 1947
Indian Independence act	1947
Acceptance of Mountbatten Plan of Partition	June 3rd 1947
Adoption of National flag of India	July 22nd 1947
Setting up of Drafting committee	August 29th 1947
Instrument of accession of Jammu & Kashmir	26th Oct 1947
Ratification of India’s membership of Commonwealth	1949
Adoption of constitution	Nov 26th 1949
Abolition of Privy council Jurisdiction act	1949
Formation of Planning commission	1950
Adoption of Indian National anthem	Jan 24th 1950
Adoption of National song	Jan 24th 1950
Election of Dr. Rajendra Prasad as first president of India	Jan 24th 1950
Final session of Constituent assembly	Jan 24th 1950
India ceased to be British Dominion	Jan 26th 1950
India became republic on	Jan 26th 1950
Gopalan case	1950
President rule first time imposed in Punjab in	1951
First Constitutional amendment act	1951
Finance commission act	1951
Representation of People’s act	1951
First General elections in India	1952
Starting of community development program	1952
First Backwards class commission under chairmanship Kaka kalekar appointed in	1953
Formation of first linguistic state (Andhra Pradesh)	1953
Panchasheel signed by India & China	1954
Protection of Civil rights act	1955
State reorganization act	1956
Rajasthan (First state to establish Panchayat Raj)	October 2nd 1959
Liberation of Goa from Portuguese	1961
First Proclamation of National emergency	1962
Emergence of central vigilance commission	1964
Formation of Haryana	1966
First Administrative commission	1966
Golaknath case	1967
Kesavananda Bharati case	1973
Emergency during Indira Gandhi as PM	1975 to 1977
Sikkim became full-fledged state of India	1975
42nd Constitutional amendment act	1976
Bonded labour system (abolition act)	1976
Congress losses power for the first time	1977
Right to Property was deleted from Fundamental rights by 44th amendment in	1978
Menaka Gandhi case	1978
Second Backwards class commission under chairmanship BP Mandal appointed in	1979
Sarkaria commission on centre-state relations	1983
Child labour (Prohibition & Regulation) act	1986
Reduction of voting age from 21 years to 18 years	1989
Establishment of Interstate council	1990
69thConstitutional amendment act (Special status to UT Delhi)	1991
73rdConstitutional amendment act (Panchayats)	1992
74thConstitutional amendment act (urban local bodies)	1992
National Commission for women	1992
National Commission for minorities	1993
National Commission for Backwards classes	1993
National Human Rights Commission	1993
PESA act	1996
Formation of Chattisgarh	2000
Formation of Jharkhand	2000
Formation of Uttarakhand	2000
Article 21 A(Right to education through 86th amendment act) in	2002
National Commission for SCs	2003
National Commission for protection of child rights	2007
Second Administrative reforms commission	2007
Right of children to free and compulsory education act	2009
97th Amendment act (Cooperative societies)	2011
Formation of Telangana	2014
Implementation of Goods and service tax	July 1st 2017