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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Gupta Empire






2. Kingdoms of Sri Lanka






3. British Expedition to Tibet






4. Beginning of Vikram Era






5. Mamluk Sultanate






6. Pallava Empire






7. Kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara






8. Mature Harappan Culture






9. 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.






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






11. Sixteen Maha Janapadas ('Great Realms' or 'Great Kingdoms') emerge.






12. Late Harappan Culture






13. Mahmud Ghazni defeats Tarnochalpal and annexes Punjab






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






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






16. Kanva Empire






17. 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.






18. Kamarupa Kingdom






19. Kuninda Kingdom






20. Advent of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and leader of the world's first civil disobedience movement - in Navadwip - West Bengal






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






22. Vakataka Empire






23. Rigveda (to 1000 BC)






24. Humayun regained the throne of Delhi from the hands of weak successors of Sher Shah.






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






26. Indira Gandhi declares state of emergency after being found guilty of electoral malpractice. Nearly 1000 political opponents imprisoned and programme of compulsory birth control introduced. (to 1977)






27. Vijayanagara Empire established by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I






28. Death of Yashwantrao Holkar






29. Second Anglo-Maratha War begins






30. Battle of Buxar






31. Establishment of theIndo-Greek kingdom.






32. Kalinga War takes place between Ashoka and the kingdom of Kalinga. After conquering Kalinga - Ashoka reportedly regrets what he had done - leading him to adopt Buddhism - which then became the quasi-official state religion of the Mauryan Empire.






33. PortugueseIndia






34. Ashoka dies and is succeeded by Kunala.






35. 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






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






37. Establishment of theIndo-Greek kingdom.






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






39. Timur plunders Lahore






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






41. Kingdom of Dambadeniya






42. Gakhars kills Muhammad Ghori during a raid on his camp on the Jhelum River






43. Establishment of theIndo-Scythian kingdom.






44. Birth of Babur in Andijan - Fergana Valley in Central Asia






45. Gupta Empire






46. Congress Party wins first general elections under leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. (to 1952)






47. Guru Ram Das becomes fourth Guru of Sikhs. Akbar annexes Bengal.






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






49. Travancore Kingdom






50. Nanda Empire