Timeline of Events -Class 10 – Social Science – History -Chapter 4 : The Age of Industrialisation

Class 10 – Social Science – History -Timeline of Events -Chapter 4 : The Age of Industrialisation

1600:- The East India company was established

1730:- The earliest factories in England were setup

1760:- Britian imported New cotton to feed its cotton industry

1764:- James Hargreaves, devised spinning Jenny

1767:- Richard Arkwright established the cotton mill

1781:- James watt improvised steam engine & patented it

1785:- Cart wright invented the power loom which used steam power for

spinning & weaving

1830-1840:- Dwarkanath Tagore setup 6 joint stock companies in Bengal

1840:- Cotton was the leading sector in the first phase of

Industrialisation in Britain.

1850 :- Railway station developed all over London

1854:- The first cotton mill was established in Bombay

1855:- The first Jute Mill was set up in Bengal

1860:- The supply of cotton reduced because of American Civil War

1860:- Elgin Mill was started in Kanpur

1861:- The first cotton mill was setup in Ahmedabad

1873:- Britain exported Iron & Steel

1874:- The first spinning & weaving mill & Madras began its production

1900:- E.T paul music company published “Dawn of Century”

1912:- J.N. Tata set up first Iron & Steel works in Jameshedpur

1917:- Seth Hukumchand set up first Jute Mill in Calcutta

1941:- use of Fly shuttle in more than 35 looms