History

1765
Successful military mobilization to bring Santhal Pargana under British rule

1772-80
Paharia revolt

1780-85
Tilka Manjhi led the tribal revolt and managed to injure British army chief

1785
Tilka Manjhi hanged to death in Bhagalpur

1795-1800
Tamar revolt

1797
Munda revolt under the leadership of Vishnu manaki

1798
Chaur revolt in Birbhum Bankura

1798-99
Bhoomij revolt of Manbhoom

1800-02
Munda revolt under the stewardship of Dukhan Manaki of Tamar

1819-20
Munda revolt in Palamu under the leadeship of Bhukan Singh

1832-33
Khewar revolt under the leadership of Bhagirath, Dubai Gosai and Patel Singh

1833-34
Bhumij revolt under the leadership of Ganga narain of Birbum

1855
Santhals waged war against the permanent settlement of Lord Cornwallis

1855-60
During late 1850's Sidhu had accumulated about Ten Thousands Santhals to run parallel govt. against British rule. The basic purpose was to collect taxes by making his own laws. British govt. had announced an award of Rs. Ten Thousand to arrest Sidhu and his brother Kanhu. This movement remained very active in Kahalgaon and Raniganj.

1856
Police brigade was constituted

1856-57
Martyr Sahid Lal, Vishwanath Shahdeo, Sheikh Bhikhari, Ganptrai and Budhu Veer led a movement against the British gov. in the sepoy mutiny

1874-99
This period is famous for Birsa movement

1874
Kherwar movement shot into fame under the leadership of Bhagirathi manjhi

1881
Kherwar movement started

1895-1900
Launching of ULGLAN under the leadership of Birsa

1912
Bihar bifurcated from Bengal and some parts of Chotanagpur merged into Bengal

1913
Constitution of Chotnagpur unati samaj

1914
Tana Bhajgat movement started which had the participation of more than 26000 tribals

1915
Publication of Adivasi titled magazine started

1929
Simon commission presented with a memorandum which demanded the information of Jharkhand state

1936
Orissa was created as a separate state

1947
On Dec. 28 All India Jharkhand Party came into inception

1951
Jharkhand party was elected to Vidhan Sabha as a main opposition party

1969
Shibu Soren founded the Sonat Santahl Samaj

1971
A.K.Roy founded the Marxist M.C.C to demand the separate Jharkhand state

1973
N.E.Horo named his party as Jharkhand Party and on March 12th he presented the then Prime Minister a memorandum for separate Jharkhand state

1977
Jharkhand party proposed for separate Jharkhand state which included not only Chotanagpur and Santhal Pargana of Bihar but adjoining area of Bengal

1978
The convention of All India Jharkhand Party was held on May 21

1978
June 9 came to co-memorated as Birsa day

1980
Establishment of Jharkhand Kranti Dal

1986
September 25, All Jharkhand Students Union gave its first call for Jharkhand bandh , it was a huge success

1987
Call for boycott of Independence day . The home minister of India directed the bihar government to prepare a report on detailed profile of all districts of Chotnagpur and Santhal Pargana

1989
72 hours of economic blockade by AJSU was total success

1989
6 days of economic blockade by Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was success

1994
On Jan 6 Laloo Prasad Yadav declared in Ranchi that Jharkhand devlopment autnomous council bill will be passed in budget session

1995
Jharkhand area autonomous council was formed which comprised of 18 districts of Santhal Pargana and Chotnagpur and Shibu Soren was nominated as the Chairman

1997
In June, Bihar government sanctioned 24 Crores for conducting the elections of Jharkhand Autonomous Council

1997
In July, Shibu Soren offered support to minority government of Laloo Prasad Yadav with a condition of a separate Jharkhand bill in the assembly

The Year 2000 August 2
The bill to create a separate state of Jharkhand to be carved out of Bihar was passed in Lok Sabha by voice with two key allies of ruling NDA strongly opposing the measure and the opposition Rashtriya Janta Dal and the CPI - M demanding it to be referred to a parliamentary committee. The long cherished demand of people of the region was fulfilled, the celebration is on through out the Jharkhand region.

August 11
Parliament today approved the formation of Jharkhand when the Rajya Sabha passed by voice - vote the Bihar reorganisation bill 2000 to carve out the new state out of Bihar's northern region.

August - 25
President Mr. K.R. Narayanan approved the Bihar reorganisation bill 2000.

October - 12
The center has issued the gazette notification starting November 15 to be the appointed date for the formation of new Jharkhand Government