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| Year | Place | President | Details |
| 1885 | Bombay | W.C. Banerjee | 1st session, attended by 72 delegates. |
| 1886 | Calcutta | Dadabhai Naoroji | Witnessed merger of INC and National Conference. |
| 1887 | Madras | Badruddin Tyabji | Appeal to Muslims to join INC. |
| 1888 | Allahabad | George Yule | 1st non-Indian President of INC. |
| 1896 | Calcutta | Rahimatullah M. Sayani | National song “Vande Mataram” sung for the first time. |
| 1905 | Benaras | Gopal Krishna Gokhale | Resentment against the Bengal partition, boycott of foreign goods, promotion of Swadeshi goods and Indian industries, public meetings, and processions |
| 1906 | Calcutta | Dadabhai Naoroji | Word Swaraj mentioned for the first time. |
| 1907 | Surat | Rash Behari Ghosh | Congress split between moderates and extremists |
| 1908 | Madras | Rash Behari Ghosh | The Constitution of INC drawn. |
| 1909 | Lahore | Madan Mohan Malviya | Disapproval of separate electorates based on religion (Indian Councils Act, 1909). |
| 1911 | Calcutta | Bishan Narayan Dar | National Anthem, “Jana Gana Mana,” sung for the first time |
| 1916 | Lucknow | A.C. Majumdar | Reunification of Moderates and Extremists in INC, Lucknow Pact between Muslim League and INC, Death of Gokhale and Pherozshah Mehta |
| 1917 | Calcutta | Annie Besant | First woman to preside the Congress session |
| 1919 | Amritsar | Motilal Nehru | New constitution of INC framed, Condemned the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Approved the Khilafat movement |
| 1920 | Calcutta | Lala Lajpat Rai | Special Session. NCM moved and adopted. |
| 1920 | Nagpur | C. Vijayaraghavachariar | Reconstitution of Congress committees on linguistic grounds |
| 1922 | Gaya | C.R. Das | CR Das and other leaders broke away from INC and formed the Swaraj party. CR Das presided over the session when he was in jail |
| 1923 | Delhi | Maulana Azad | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad became the youngest president of INC. |
| 1924 | Belgaum | M.K. Gandhi | Only session where Gandhiji presided |
| 1925 | Kanpur | Sarojini Naidu | First Indian women president of INC |
| 1927 | Madras | M.A. Ansari | Resolution against using Indian troops in Mesopotamia, Iran, and China. The resolution passed to boycott the Simon Commission. |
| 1928 | Calcutta | Motilal Nehru | 1st All India Youth Congress Formed |
| 1929 | Lahore | Jawaharlal Nehru | Adopted resolution for Purna Swaraj |
| 1931 | Karachi | Vallabh Bhai Patel | Endorsed Gandhi Irwin pact, Resolution of Fundamental rights and National Economic Programme |
| 1934 | Bombay | Rajendra Prasad | INC Constitution amended |
| 1936 | Faizpur | Jawaharlal Nehru | Push towards socialist ideas by Nehru,1st session in a village. |
| 1938 | Haripura | Subhas Chandra Bose | National Planning Committee set under Nehru. |
| 1939 | Tripuri | Subhas Chandra Bose | Rajendra Prasad took over as president after Subhas Chandra resigned. |
| 1940 | Ramgarh | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | The decision to take the final call on launching mass civil disobedience was left to Mahatma Gandhi. |
| 1946 | Meerut | Acharya J.B. Kripalani | Last Session before Independence. |
Note: Congress Session did not occur in 1930, 1935, and 1941 to 1945.
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