Rowlatt Act
1919 · Event
Wartime emergency powers extended into peacetime — sparks mass protests.
On these timelines: India, Master, Gandhi's Road to Independence, British Empire
More from India
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- British Raj (1858)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
Around 1919
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)