Independence Day 2021 | Key moments from India’s struggle for freedom

1857 | First war of independence (Image: News18 Creative)

1885 | Indian National Congress comes into being (Image: News18 Creative)

1905 | Partition of Bengal; call for swadeshi goods (Image: News18 Creative)

1911 | Bengal Partition annulled (Image: News18 Creative)

1915 | Gandhi returns to India (Image: News18 Creative)

1919 | Jallianwallah Bagh massacre (Image: News18 Creative)

1919 | Khilafat movement begins (Image: News18 Creative)

1921 | Gandhi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement (Image: News18 Creative)

1929 | Delhi Assembly bombing by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt (Image: News18 Creative)

1930 | Dandi march (Image: News18 Creative)

1942 | Azad Hind Fauj formed (Image: News18 Creative)

1942 | Quit India movement launched (Image: News18 Creative)

February, 1947 | British government announces full self-governance to India by 1948 (Image: News18 Creative)

June, 1947 | Announcement of partition (Image: News18 Creative)

August 15, 1947 | India gets freedom (Image: News18 Creative)