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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Hoysala Empire






2. Death of Sher Shah Suri and succeeded by Islam Shah.






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






4. Mehrgarh Culture






5. Mughal army arrested for the act.






6. Direct Action Day/Great Calcutta Killings






7. Chandragupta II - Samudragupta's son becomes the Gupta Emperor.






8. Bronze age






9. Stone age






10. FrenchIndia (to 1954)






11. FrenchIndia (to 1954)






12. 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






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






14. Kingdom of Raigama






15. Keladi Kingdom






16. Rai Kingdom






17. Second Anglo-Mysore War begins.






18. Vellore Mutiny






19. Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya drives out Praudha Raya ending the Sangama Dynasty






20. Early Harappan Culture






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






22. Troops storm Golden Temple - Sikhs' most holy shrine - to flush out Sikh militants pressing for self-rule. Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikh bodyguards - following which her son - Rajiv - takes over.






23. Indo-Scythian Kingdom






24. Gurjara-Pratihara (to 910)






25. Sunga Empire






26. Second Anglo-Mysore War ends with the Treaty of Mangalore.






27. Indian Rebellion of 1857






28. Kingdom of Kurunegala






29. Yadava Empire






30. Chalukya Empire






31. Sayyid Sultanate






32. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association formed.






33. More than 1000 people are killed in floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains in Mumbai (Bombay) and Maharashtra region.






34. First Anglo-Sikh Wars (to 1849)






35. First Anglo-Afghan War






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






37. Keladi Kingdom






38. Congress suffers worst ever electoral defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP emerges as largest single party.






39. Death of Sher Shah Suri and succeeded by Islam Shah.






40. First Anglo-Sikh Wars (to 1849)






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






42. Guru Amar Das becomes third Guru of Sikhs.






43. Ulugh Khan defeats Prataparudra ending the Kakatiya dynasty






44. Dayananda Saraswati is born (to 1883)






45. Ram Mohan Roy Born (to 1833)






46. Gurjara Pratihara Empire






47. 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.






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






49. Kingdom of Dambadeniya






50. 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.