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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. All India Forward Bloc Established by Subhas Chandra Bose






2. PortugueseIndia (to 1961)






3. Chola Empire






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






5. Mature Harappan Culture






6. Battle of Plassey - Company rule inIndia (to 1857)






7. Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.






8. Chera Kingdom






9. Maukhari Empire






10. Establishment of Rashtrakuta Kingdom of Manyakhet by Danti Durga by defeating Chalukyas of Badami






11. Mehrgarh Culture






12. Vasco de Gama's first voyage from Europe toIndia and back (to 1499)






13. Janata Party Splits. Chaudhary Charan Singh becomes Prime Minister.






14. Fourth Anglo-Mysore War begins.






15. Kingdoms of Sri Lanka






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






17. Western Chalukya Empire






18. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






19. Last invasion of Mahmud Ghazni - sacked and destroyed temple of Somnath






20. Middle and Late Vedic period (to 500 BC)






21. Nanda Empire






22. Sayyid Sultanate






23. Vijayanagara Empire






24. Gandhi






25. Indo-Parthian Kingdom






26. Khizr Khan - deputized by Timur to be the governor of Multan takes over Delhi founding the Sayyid dynasty






27. Chitradurga Kingdom






28. Invasions by the Huna.






29. India explodes first nuclear device in underground test.






30. Eastern Ganga Empire






31. Vijayanagara Empire






32. Birth of Shivaji Maharaj.






33. Kingdom of Ruhuna






34. Late medieval age






35. Establishment of theIndo-Greek kingdom.






36. Dayananda Saraswati is born (to 1883)






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






38. Kingdom of Dambadeniya






39. Falling public support leads to Congress defeat in general election.






40. Proposed death date of Gautama Buddha.






41. Chief Justice of the Maratha Empire - Ram Shastri passes death sentence against the ruling Peshwa Raghunathrao for murdering his nephew.






42. Cyrus the Great - founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquers northwestern parts of theIndian subcontinent.






43. Khilji Sultanate






44. Veera Ballala III killed at the Battle of Madurai.






45. 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.






46. The Christian-Islamic power struggle in Europe and the Middle East. Spills over into theIndian Ocean as Battle of Chaul during the Portuguese-Mamluk War






47. Shahi Empire






48. Indian National Congress Eshtablished






49. Battle of Kannauj fought between Humayun and Sher Shah Suri and Humayun was completely defeated. Humayun lost the Mughal empire to Afghans (Suri Dynasty) - and passed 12 years in exile.






50. Gautam Buddha - founder of Buddhism is born.