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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. All India Forward Bloc Established by Subhas Chandra Bose






2. Indo-Sassanid Kingdom






3. PortugueseIndia (to 1961)






4. India successfully test-fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile - the Agni - off its eastern coast.






5. BJP forms coalition government under Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee. India carries out nuclear tests - leading to widespread international condemnation.






6. Tughlaq Sultanate






7. Indo-Parthian Kingdom






8. Mysore Kingdom






9. Rajaram Chhatrapati died






10. Maharaja Ranjit Singh establishes Khalsa rule of Punjab from Lahore. Khalsa army liberates Kashmiri Pundits and invades Afghanistan through Khyber Pass.






11. Gautamiputra Satkarni becomes Satavahana emperor and starts Shalivahana era calendar after defeating Scythian king Maues.






12. Beginning of Vikram Era






13. Deva Kingdom






14. Kingdoms of Sri Lanka






15. Timur plunders Lahore






16. EastIndia Company signs treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh






17. Zafar Khan - governor of Gujarat - declares himself as Sultan Muzaffar Shah founding the Gujarat Sultanate/Muzaffarid dynasty






18. Late medieval age






19. FrenchIndia (to 1954)






20. Sikh Confederacy






21. Thanjavur Kingdom






22. The Pandyan king sends ambassadors to the Greek and Roman lands.






23. Vajpayee meets Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the first summit between the two neighbours in more than two years. The meeting ends without a breakthrough or even a joint statement because of differences over Kashmir.






24. Bronze age






25. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association formed.






26. Deva Raya II succeeded his father Veera Vijaya Bukka Raya as monarch of the Vijayanagara Empire






27. Sumra Dynasty ends the Arab domination and establishes its own rule over Sindh.






28. Battle of Chausa fought between Humayun and Sher Shah Suri in which Humayun defeated. Guru Angad Dev becomes second guru of sikhs.






29. Central Assembly Bombed by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt. Purna Swaraj resolution.






30. First Anglo-Maratha War begins - in which Haidar Ali of Mysore defeats the combined armies of the EastIndia Company - the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad.






31. Deccan Sultanates






32. Battle of Chandawar fought between Ghauri and Jaichand of Kannauj. Ghauri defeated Jayachandra and killed him.






33. Chandragupta Maurya defeats Seleucus Nicator of the Seleucid Empire.






34. DanishIndia






35. Reddy Kingdom






36. Third Anglo-Maratha War ends with the defeat of Bajirao II and the end of the Maratha Empire leaving the EastIndia Company with control of almost the whole ofIndia






37. British Raj (to 1947)






38. A high-powered rocket is launched - addingIndia to the club of countries able to fire big satellites deep into space.






39. Ashoka dies and is succeeded by Kunala.






40. District collectors in Bengal were made responsible for settling the revenue and collecting it.






41. Nearly 200 people are killed and hundreds injured in a series of co-ordinated attacks by gunmen on the main tourist and business area ofIndia's financial capital Mumbai.India blames militants from Pakistan for the attacks and demands that Islamabad t






42. Late Harappan Phase of theIndus Valley Civilization begins - including Cemetery H culture and other cultures.






43. Pallava Empire






44. Princely states (to 1947)






45. Abdur Razzaq visitsIndia






46. Harsha Empire






47. Kingdoms of Sri Lanka






48. Gajapati Kingdom






49. Ulugh Khan defeats Prataparudra ending the Kakatiya dynasty






50. Second Anglo-Mysore War begins.