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Timeline Of Indian History

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






2. PortugueseIndia






3. Swami Vivekanand is born (to 1902)






4. Ror Kingdom






5. Early Vedic period (to 1000 BC)






6. Hoysala Empire






7. Kingdom of Sitawaka






8. 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






9. Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers. Economic reform programme begun by Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.






10. Second Anglo-Maratha War begins






11. Salt Satyagraha - Round Table Conferences (India) First - civil disobedience movement






12. Samma Dynasty assumes rule over Sindh






13. British Ceylon






14. Proposed death date of Gautama Buddha.






15. Simuka declares independence from Mauryan rule and establishes the Satavahana Empire.






16. Badami Chalukya power at its peak. Pulakesi II pushes north up to the Narmada and defeats the invading Harshavardhana of Kanauj






17. Ambhi king of Taxila surrenders to Alexander. Porus who ruled parts of the Punjab - fought Alexander at the Battle of the Hydaspes River.






18. 'Victory of Prithviraj Chauhan'.First battle of Tarain between Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj III. Ghauri is defeated by Prithivi Raj Chauhan III.






19. Western Ganga Kingdom






20. Died Tatya Tope






21. India loses brief border war with China. India won Diu - Daman and Goa from PortugueseIndia.






22. Narayanrao Peshwa is murdered by his uncle Raghunathrao's wife in front of Raghunathrao. Regulating Act of 1773 - Warren Hastings appointed as first Governor-General ofIndia






23. Panini - a resident of Gandhara - describes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit.






24. Stone age






25. Kamarupa Kingdom






26. Early Harappan Culture






27. Kalabhras Empire






28. Kadamba Empire






29. Sri-Gupta starts the Gupta Empire in Magadha - with its capital in Patliputra






30. Thondaiman Kingdom






31. Dutch Ceylon






32. Establishment of theIndo-Scythian kingdom.






33. Satavahana Empire






34. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






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






36. Sikh Confederacy






37. Kushan Empire






38. Black and Red ware culture






39. All India Forward Bloc Established by Subhas Chandra Bose






40. Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha






41. Guru Amar Das becomes third Guru of Sikhs.






42. Partition ofIndia






43. Sikh Empire






44. B. R. Ambedkar is born (to 1956)






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






46. Partition of Bengal






47. Ching-Thang Khomba moves Manipur's capital to Kangla






48. Kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara






49. Vajpayee's BJP party declines his offer to resign over a number of political scandals and the apparent failure of his talks with Pakistani President Musharraf.






50. Indo-Parthian Kingdom