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Timeline Of Indian History
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1. The Pandyan king sends ambassadors to the Greek and Roman lands.
1605
1965
65 BC
321 BC
2. PortugueseIndia
1510
1790
1930
184 BC
3. Swami Vivekanand is born (to 1902)
1515
1863
1130
1800
4. Ror Kingdom
1407
1853 - 16 April
1220
450 BC
5. Early Vedic period (to 1000 BC)
1500 BC
1659
1527
1
6. Hoysala Empire
1586
1859 - 18 April
1554
1040
7. Kingdom of Sitawaka
1540
1102
1521
35
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
1336
1680
1083
1818
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.
1944
1991
1572
973
10. Second Anglo-Maratha War begins
1556
60
2600
1803
11. Salt Satyagraha - Round Table Conferences (India) First - civil disobedience movement
1336
1510
712
1930
12. Samma Dynasty assumes rule over Sindh
1925
1200
1351
1194
13. British Ceylon
January 2001
1510
1815
942
14. Proposed death date of Gautama Buddha.
599 BC
1747
1916
483 BC
15. Simuka declares independence from Mauryan rule and establishes the Satavahana Empire.
21
230 BC
1857
1206
16. Badami Chalukya power at its peak. Pulakesi II pushes north up to the Narmada and defeats the invading Harshavardhana of Kanauj
1772
1749
3000
637
17. Ambhi king of Taxila surrenders to Alexander. Porus who ruled parts of the Punjab - fought Alexander at the Battle of the Hydaspes River.
1991
326 BC
1944
1024
18. 'Victory of Prithviraj Chauhan'.First battle of Tarain between Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj III. Ghauri is defeated by Prithivi Raj Chauhan III.
1325
1134
1191
1900 - 22 October
19. Western Ganga Kingdom
March 2007
505
350
250s BC
20. Died Tatya Tope
1877 - January
185
1859 - 18 April
December 2001
21. India loses brief border war with China. India won Diu - Daman and Goa from PortugueseIndia.
475
1555
1522
1962
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
1530
1729
1773
600 BC
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.
350 BC
1798
1897 - 23 January
1325
24. Stone age
1130
7000
1885 - 28 December
1191
25. Kamarupa Kingdom
1911
350
1630
1220
26. Early Harappan Culture
230 BC
1856
3300
304 BC
27. Kalabhras Empire
1974
July 2001
250
1913
28. Kadamba Empire
543 BC
650
345
1912
29. Sri-Gupta starts the Gupta Empire in Magadha - with its capital in Patliputra
3300
1661
240
1940
30. Thondaiman Kingdom
2000
1757
1987
1650
31. Dutch Ceylon
1451
1700
1300
1656
32. Establishment of theIndo-Scythian kingdom.
80 BC
1483
377 BC
1905
33. Satavahana Empire
450 BC
1206
230
273 BC
34. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.
1530
January 2002
1665
75
35. Battle of Chausa fought between Humayun and Sher Shah Suri in which Humayun defeated. Guru Angad Dev becomes second guru of sikhs.
1572
1539
750
1799
36. Sikh Confederacy
1347
1707
1920
1705
37. Kushan Empire
from 2000 BC
60
475
1130
38. Black and Red ware culture
1773
October 2001
1946 - February
1300
39. All India Forward Bloc Established by Subhas Chandra Bose
788
1939
68
475
40. Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha
180 BC
1510
1917
1469
41. Guru Amar Das becomes third Guru of Sikhs.
500
1446
1552
1605
42. Partition ofIndia
1947 AD
1818
1950 - 26 January
973
43. Sikh Empire
1398
1358
1799
184 BC
44. B. R. Ambedkar is born (to 1956)
1948 - 30 January
1497
712
1891
45. BJP forms coalition government under Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee. India carries out nuclear tests - leading to widespread international condemnation.
1998
1486
1942
March 2007
46. Partition of Bengal
75
261 BC
1905
60
47. Ching-Thang Khomba moves Manipur's capital to Kangla
1964
1980
1796
1526
48. Kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara
1206
1916
505
35
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.
1600
750
October 2001
July 2001
50. Indo-Parthian Kingdom
753
1290
300
21