Governors-General & Viceroys Warren Hastings (1773-1785) Events During Regime ‘e Regulating Act of 1773 © Pitt's India Act of 1784 © The Rohilla War of 1774 © The First Maratha War in 1775-82 and the Treaty of Salbai in 1782 » Second Mysore War in 1780-84 Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793) ‘© Third Mysore War (1790-92) and Treaty of Seringapatam (1792) * Comwallis Code (1793) * Permanent Settlement of Bengal, 1793 Lord Wellesley (1798-1805) Lord Minto | (1807-1813) « Introduction of the Subsidiary Alliance System (1798) » Fourth Mysore War (1799) © Second Maratha War (1803-05) Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh (1809) Lord Hastings (1813-1823) Lord Amherst (1823-1828) © Anglo-Nepal War (1814-16) and the Treaty of Sagaul, 1816 © Third Maratha War (1817-19) and dissolution of Maratha « Establishment of Ryotwari System (1820) First Burmese War (1824-1826) Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835) Aboltion of Sati System (1829) © Charter Act of 1833,Lord Auckland (1836-1842) First Afghan War (1838-42) Lord Hardinge | (1844-1848) First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46) and the Treaty of Lahore (1846). ‘Social reforms like the abolition of female infanticide Lord Dalhousie (1848-1858) Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-49) ‘The annexation of Lower Burma (1852) Introduction of the Doctrine of Lapse Wood's Despatch 1854 Laying down of first railway line connecting Bombay and Thane in 1853 Laying down of first railway line connecting Bombay and Thane in 1853 Establishment of PWD Lord Canning (1856-1862) Revolt of 1857 Establishment of three universities at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay in 1857 Abolition of East India Company and transfer of control to the Crown by the Government of India Act, 1858 Indian Councils Act of 1861 Lord John Lawrence (1864-1869) Bhutan War (1865) Establishment of the High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras (1865) Lord Lytton (1876-1880) The Vernacular Press Act (1878) The Arms Act (1878) The Second Afghan War (1878-80) Queen Victoria assumed the title of “Kaiser-i-Hind’ or Queen Empress of India Lord Ripon (1880-1884) Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act (1882) The first Factory Act (1881) Government resolution on local self- government (1882) The Ibert Bill controversy (1883-84) Hunter Commission on education (1882)Lord Dufferin (1884-1888) © The Third Burmese War (1885-86). Congress (1885) Lord Lansdowne (1888-1894) © Factory Act (1891). © Indian Councils Act (1892). # Setting up of Durand Commission (1893) Lord Curzon (1899-1905) * Appointment of Police Commission (1902) Appointment of Universities Commission (1902) Indian Universities Act (1904) Partition of Bengal (1905) Lord Minto II (1905-1910) * Swadeshi Movements. (1905-11) Surat Split of Congress (1907) Establishment of Muslim League (1906) Morley-Minto Reforms(1909) Lord Hardinge II (1910-1916) Annulment of Partition of Bengal (1911) Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi (1911), Establishment of the Hindu Mahasabha (1915) Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921) Lucknow pact (1916) Champaran Satyagraha (1917) Montagu’s August Declaration (1917) Government of India Act (1919) The Rowlatt Act (1919) Jallianwalla Bagh massacre (1919) Launch of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements Lord Reading (1921-1926) « Chauri Chaura incident (1922) * Withdrawal of Non-Cooperation Movement (1922) + Establishment of Swaraj Party(1922) Kakori train robbery (1925)Lord Inwin (1926-1931) ‘Simon Commission to India (1927) Harcourt Butler Indian States Commission (1927) Nehru Report (1928) Deepavali Declaration (1929) « Lahore session of the Congress (Purna ‘Swaraj Resolution) 1929 Dandi March and the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930) Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931) Lord Willingdon (1931-1936) Communal Award (1932) Conference (1932) Poona Pact (1932) Government of India Act of 1935 Lord Linlithgow (1936-1944) Resignation of the Congress ministries after the outbreak of the Second World War (1939) Tripuri Crisis & formation of Forward Bloc (1939) Lahore Resolution of the Muslim League (demand for a separate state for Muslims) 1940 ‘August Offer’ (1940) Formation of the Indian National Army (1941) Cripps Mission (1942) Cat iede i 2 Lord Wavell (1944-1947) C. Rajagopalachari’s CR Formula (1944) Wavell Plan and the Simla Conference (1942) Cabinet Mission (1946) Direct Action Day (1946) Announcement of end of British rule in India by Clement Attlee (147) Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948) June Third Plan (1947) Redcliff commission (1947) India’s Independence (15 August 1947) Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1948- 1950) Last Governor-General of India, before the office, was permanently abolished in 1950.