Lord Chelmsford (1916- 1921)

• In 1916 Home Rule League was formally inaugurated by Annie Besant.
  
• Congress –League pact in 1916 Lucknow Session.
  
• In 1917 Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Poona was founded.
  
• In 1917 Austen Chamberlain resigns and succeeded by Montagu as secretary of
• State for India.
  
• In 1917 J.C Bose founded Bose Research Institute.
  
• Rowlett Committee appointed and submitted its report in April 1918.
  
• Lahore High Court was founded in 1919.
  
• In 1919 Third Afghan War started.
  
• In 1919 Treaty of Peace signed with Afghanistan at Rawalpindi.