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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Sikh Confederacy






2. Indo-Sassanid Kingdom






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






4. Maukhari Empire






5. Portuguese Ceylon






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






7. Black and Red ware culture






8. Late medieval age






9. Bronze age






10. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






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






12. Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act - 1856 - (23 July) Bal Gangadhar Tilak is born (to 1920) - (20 August) Narayana Guru is born (to 1928)






13. First Anglo-Maratha War






14. Establishment of theIndo-Parthian kingdom.






15. Dayananda Saraswati is born (to 1883)






16. Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh state kill more than 50 policemen in a dawn attack.






17. Indo-Scythian Kingdom






18. Established first three University of Mumbai - University of Madras and University of Calcutta inIndia






19. Mauryan Empire is founded by Chandragupta Maurya in Magadha after he defeats the Nanda dynasty and Macedonian Seleucid Empire. Mauryan capital city is Patliputra (Modern Patna in Bihar)






20. Death of Ahilyabai Holkar






21. Maratha Empire






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






23. Satavahana Empire






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






25. Indo-Greek Kingdom






26. Vakataka Empire






27. Early Vedic period (to 1000 BC)






28. Republic Day (India)






29. Shah Jahan completes Taj Mahal - Jama Masjid[disambiguation needed] - and RedFort. Imperial treasuries drained by architectural and military overexpenditures. Shah Jahan dies - and is succeeded by his son Aurangzeb.






30. Ashoka conquers and unifies most of South Asia - along with Afghanistan and eastern Iran.






31. First Railway estalblished between Bombay and Thane






32. Khilji Sultanate






33. Kingdom of Kochi is taken over by the Portuguese creating the first European settlement inIndia.






34. Eastern Ganga Empire






35. Hoysala Empire






36. Kingdom of Yapahuwa






37. 'Victory of Prithviraj Chauhan'.First battle of Tarain between Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj III. Ghauri is defeated by Prithivi Raj Chauhan III.






38. Vijayanagara Empire






39. Chandragupta I ascends to the Gupta throne.






40. At least 50 people are killed in two simultaneous bomb blasts in Bombay.






41. Ashfaqulla Khan is born (to 1927)






42. Gautam Buddha - founder of Buddhism is born.






43. Gurjara-Pratihara (to 910)






44. Birth of Adi Shankaracharya






45. Mahavira passes away.






46. Maha Janapadas






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






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






49. Chandra Vidyasagar is born (to 1891)






50. Nripatunga Amoghavarsha I becomes Rashtrakuta emperor. Kannada literature flourishes.