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Important dates and events in modern history

Date Event 1757 Battle of Plassey ensured the establishment of British political rule in India. 1761 Third Battle of Panipat 1764 Battle of Buxar 1765 Clive was appointed Company's Governor in India 1767-69 First Anglo-Mysore War 1780 Birth of Maharaja Ranjit Singh 1780-84 Second Anglo-Mysore War 1784 Pitt’s India Act 1790-92 Third Anglo-Mysore War 1793 The Permanent Settlement of Bengal 1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and  Death of Tipu Sultan 1802 Treaty of Bassein 1809 Treaty of Amritsar 1829 Practice of Sati prohibited 1830 Raja Rammohan Roy visits England 1833 Raja Rammohan Roy Died at Bristol, England 1839 Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh 1839-42 First Anglo-Afghan War 1845-46 First Anglo-Sikh War 1852 Second Anglo-Burmese War 1853 First Railway line opened between Bombay and Thane and a Telegraph line in Calcutta 1857  First War of Independence taken place in India 1861 Birth of Rabindranath Tagore 1869 Birth of Mahatma Gandhi 1885 Foundation of Indian National C...