A public meeting was organised at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on 13th April, 1919 to protect against the arrest of Dr Satyapal and Saifuddin Kitchlu and to condemn the Rowlatt Act.
→Thousands of unarmed people had assembled on the Baisakhi Day' for the public meeting at Jallianwala Bagh. →While the meeting was in progress, military troops entered Jallianwala Bagh. General Dyer, without giving prior-warning, ordered the soldiers to open fire on the assembled people.
→ Within less than 10 minutes, about 1500 rounds were fired, killing 379 people and causing Injury to 1200 people.
→ This 'massacre' was condemned all over the country. Rabindranath Tagore surrendered the Knighthood conferred upon him by the British government.
→ It led to unprecedented unity among the people of India and served as the background to the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920.