100 One-Liner History GK

• 1. The Battle of Plassey was fought in 1757.
• 2. The Quit India Movement began in 1942.
• 3. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948.
• 4. The First War of Indian Independence was in 1857.
• 5. The Indian Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950.
• 6. Ashoka was a ruler of the Maurya Dynasty.
• 7. The Indus Valley Civilization flourished around 2500 BCE.
• 8. Harappa was discovered in 1921.
• 9. Alexander the Great invaded India in 326 BCE.
• 10. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in 1919.
• 11. The Battle of Buxar was fought in 1764.
• 12. Subhas Chandra Bose formed the INA in 1943.
• 13. The Chauri Chaura incident happened in 1922.
• 14. The Rowlatt Act was passed in 1919.
• 15. The Simon Commission came to India in 1928.
• 16. Mangal Pandey was the hero of 1857 Revolt.
• 17. Aryabhatta was a great Indian mathematician of the Gupta period.
• 18. The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I in 1919.
• 19. World War II ended in 1945.
• 20. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
• 21. The French Revolution began in 1789.
• 22. The Renaissance began in Italy.
• 23. The American Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.
• 24. Akbar was the grandson of Babur.
• 25. Babur founded the Mughal Empire in 1526.
• 26. The Battle of Panipat (1st) was fought in 1526.
• 27. The Battle of Panipat (3rd) was fought in 1761.
• 28. The capital of British India shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911.
• 29. Chanakya was the adviser of Chandragupta Maurya.
• 30. Sati system was banned by Lord William Bentinck.
• 31. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize in 1913.
• 32. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is known as the Iron Man of India.
• 33. Indira Gandhi was the first woman Prime Minister of India.
• 34. The Dandi March started on 12 March 1930.
• 35. The Cabinet Mission came to India in 1946.
• 36. The Partition of Bengal took place in 1905.
• 37. The Non-Cooperation Movement was launched in 1920.
• 38. The Aryans came to India around 1500 BCE.
• 39. The Regulating Act was passed in 1773.
• 40. The Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by Lord Dalhousie.
• 41. The Civil Disobedience Movement started in 1930.
• 42. The Indian National Congress was formed in 1885.
• 43. The founder of the Indian National Congress was A.O. Hume.
• 44. Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Samaj.
• 45. The Treaty of Seringapatam was signed in 1792.
• 46. Tipu Sultan was the ruler of Mysore.
• 47. Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment in Bodh Gaya.
• 48. The Mauryan Empire was founded in 321 BCE.
• 49. The Gupta Empire is known as the Golden Age of India.
• 50. The Kalinga War changed Ashoka’s life.
• 51. The capital of Maurya Empire was Pataliputra.
• 52. The Delhi Sultanate was established in 1206.
• 53. The founder of Slave Dynasty was Qutb-ud-din Aibak.
• 54. The Mughal Empire ended in 1857.
• 55. Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal.
• 56. The British East India Company was formed in 1600.
• 57. The Treaty of Allahabad was signed in 1765.
• 58. The capital of the Gupta Empire was Pataliputra.
• 59. The famous traveler Hiuen Tsang visited India during Harsha’s rule.
• 60. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy happened in 1984.
• 61. The first Indian to go to space was Rakesh Sharma.
• 62. India became a republic in 1950.
• 63. Jawaharlal Nehru was India’s first Prime Minister.
• 64. The first President of India was Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
• 65. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution.
• 66. The Emergency in India was declared in 1975.
• 67. Operation Blue Star took place in 1984.
• 68. The Revolt of 1857 was also called the Sepoy Mutiny.
• 69. The founder of Buddhism was Siddhartha Gautama.
• 70. The founder of Jainism was Mahavira.
• 71. The first battle of Tarain was fought in 1191.
• 72. The second battle of Tarain was fought in 1192.
• 73. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach India by sea.
• 74. Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut in 1498.
• 75. The capital of Pallava dynasty was Kanchipuram.
• 76. The founder of the Chola dynasty was Vijayalaya Chola.
• 77. The famous rock-cut caves of Ajanta belong to the Buddhist period.
• 78. The Rani of Jhansi fought in the 1857 revolt.
• 79. The founder of Sikhism was Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
• 80. The Indian Renaissance is associated with 19th century Bengal.
• 81. The Treaty of Gandamak was signed with Afghanistan.
• 82. Fa-Hien visited India during the reign of Chandragupta II.
• 83. The title ‘Mahatma’ was given to Gandhi by Rabindranath Tagore.
• 84. The first woman ruler of India was Razia Sultana.
• 85. The Second Round Table Conference was held in 1931.
• 86. The Permanent Settlement was introduced by Lord Cornwallis.
• 87. Swadeshi Movement was part of the Partition of Bengal protest.
• 88. The Vedas are written in Sanskrit.
• 89. Nalanda University was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khilji.
• 90. The Khilafat Movement was launched in 1919.
• 91. The leader of Indigo Revolt was Digambar Biswas.
• 92. The Indian Independence Act was passed in 1947.
• 93. Lala Lajpat Rai died protesting against Simon Commission.
• 94. The founder of Arya Samaj was Swami Dayananda Saraswati.
• 95. The first newspaper in India was Bengal Gazette.
• 96. The founder of the Mughal Empire in India was Babur.
• 97. Chandrayaan-1 was launched in 2008.
• 98. The Kakori Conspiracy took place in 1925.
• 99. Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Indian MP in British Parliament.
• 100. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was known as “Father of Indian Unrest”.