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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Battle of Talikota results in the rout of Vijayanagara empire.






2. 'Atmiya Sabha' Established Later on known as 'Prarthana Samaj' By Raja Ram Mohan Roy






3. Bukka - the Vijayanagara ruler and his son Kumara Kamapna capture the entire Tamil speaking parts.






4. Second Anglo-Maratha War begins






5. Direct Action Day/Great Calcutta Killings






6. Deccan Sultanates






7. Northern Black Polished Ware






8. Ashoka the Great regarded as the greatest ancientIndian emperor - grandson of Chandragupta Maurya - ascends as emperor of the Mauryan Empire.






9. Chera Kingdom






10. Shivaji dies of fever at Raigad.






11. 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






12. FrenchIndia (to 1954)






13. Kalyani Chalukyas power at its peak. Vikramaditya VI ushers in Vikrama Chalukya era.






14. Chitradurga Kingdom






15. Lala Lajpat Rai is born (to 1928)






16. BritishIndia (to 1947) EastIndia Company (to 1757)






17. Forces led by Shivaji defeat Aurangzeb's troops - and establishes Maratha Empire.






18. BritishIndia (to 1947) EastIndia Company (to 1757)






19. Koch Kingdom






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






21. DanishIndia (to 1869)






22. India fires on Pakistani military posts in the heaviest firing along the dividing line of control in Kashmir for almost a year.(NO reference)






23. 'Prarthana Samaj' Established Earlier known as 'Atmiya Sabha'






24. US lifts sanctions which it imposed againstIndia and Pakistan after they staged nuclear tests in 1998. The move is seen as a reward for their support for the US-led anti-terror campaign.






25. Dilawar Khan establishes the Malwa Sultanate in present-day northernIndia






26. Kingdoms of Sri Lanka






27. Kingdom of Kurunegala






28. Shishunaga Kingdom






29. 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






30. Chola Empire






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






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






33. Khilji Sultanate






34. Kingdom of Anuradhapura






35. Kuninda Kingdom established. Tholkappiyam describes the grammar and morphology of Tamil; it is the oldest existing Tamil grammar (dates vary between 200 BCE and 100 CE). (to 100 BC)






36. Keladi Kingdom






37. Chalukya Empire






38. Poona Pact - (4 August) Communal Award - (November






39. Kingdom of Tambapanni






40. Establishment of theIndo-Greek kingdom.






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






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






43. India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.






44. Harshavardhana crowned Monarch.






45. Hindu






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






47. Mysore Kingdom






48. Vijayanagara Empire






49. Company Raj






50. First Muslim - Md. Bin Qasim defeats Raja Dahir