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Timeline Of Indian History
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1. The Pandyan king sends ambassadors to the Greek and Roman lands.
68
1650
527 BC
65 BC
2. Ashfaqulla Khan is born (to 1927)
1486
1859 - 18 April
1021
1900 - 22 October
3. Cyrus the Great - founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquers northwestern parts of theIndian subcontinent.
2003 August
538 BC
624
335
4. 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.
1971
1935 - August
1658
1680
5. Gadar Party formed.
1913
590
1966
1665
6. 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)
1792
1975
1817
1509
7. Akbar the Great annexes Gujarat - also shifts the Mughal capital to Fatehpur Sikri where a new township and citadel containing buildings of a unique all-India character
700
1780
1572
1779
8. Subhas Chandra Bose calls Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation.
1979
1206
1620
1944
9. The Pandyan king sends ambassadors to the Greek and Roman lands.
1515
1620
65 BC
1581
10. Dayananda Saraswati is born (to 1883)
1900 - 22 October
1206
1824 - 12 February
1497
11. Vajpayee's BJP party declines his offer to resign over a number of political scandals and the apparent failure of his talks with Pakistani President Musharraf.
July 2001
700
185
1965
12. Established first three University of Mumbai - University of Madras and University of Calcutta inIndia
1857
232 BC
1974
from 2000 BC
13. Government of India Act 1935
1526
21
1935 - August
1414
14. India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.
1998
1913
1987
3300
15. Samma Dynasty assumes rule over Sindh
345
October 2001
1351
1917
16. Indo-Greek Kingdom
180 BC
1916
1965
1030
17. Chera Kingdom
1347
1773
300 BC
1799
18. 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
1965
1795
1469
1508
19. Simon Commission
1927 - November
240
800
1505
20. Kadamba Empire
345
1971
1021
1228
21. Marava Kingdom
1600
200s BC
1991
1451
22. Death of Yashwantrao Holkar
1814
February 2002
1407
1811
23. Kingdom of Kandy
1665
1469
1102
1932 - 24 September
24. 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.
350 BC
1942
500s
1509
25. Shahi Empire
1917
1777
1984
500s
26. Ahmadnagar declares independence - followed by Bijapur and Berar in the same year thus breaking up the Bahmani Sultanate.
1490
1574
1499
2001
27. FrenchIndia (to 1954)
1914
1759
2000
1773
28. Kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara
1897 - 23 January
750
505
424
29. Establishment of theIndo-Scythian kingdom.
1078
80 BC
300 BC
1900 - 22 October
30. India successfully test-fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile - the Agni - off its eastern coast.
1979
1078
1000
January 2002
31. Ram Mohan Roy Born (to 1833)
1772
600 BC
1453
1527
32. Guru Granth Sahib becomes Guru of Sikhs.
1803
475
1917
1708
33. Kuninda Kingdom
450 BC
184 BC
1760
200s BC
34. Bardoli Satyagraha
200s BC
413
1815
1928
35. Fourth Anglo-Mysore War begins.
1798
1974
1556
1826
36. Birth of Babur in Andijan - Fergana Valley in Central Asia
1483
1779
753
200 BC
37. Stone age
1913
1451
7000
1293
38. Battle of Buxar
1764
35
1083
57 BC
39. Huna Kingdom
1984
1891
261 BC
475
40. First Muslim mosque inIndia constructed in kerala by malik dheenar
1799
629
1134
1120
41. Bukka - the Vijayanagara ruler and his son Kumara Kamapna capture the entire Tamil speaking parts.
1469
1370
1612
16 August
42. Congress Party wins first general elections under leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. (to 1952)
1932 - 24 September
1675
1917
1951
43. Gakhars kills Muhammad Ghori during a raid on his camp on the Jhelum River
1351
1911
1206
250s BC
44. Kingdoms of Sri Lanka
305 BC
1228
543 BC
1927 - November
45. 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
3400 BCE
November 2008
1483
1320
46. Late medieval age
78
1760
1412
1206
47. Vasco de Gama's first voyage from Europe toIndia and back (to 1499)
1497
1508
1530
1951
48. Nanda Empire
424
750
1992
1857 - 10 May
49. Janata Party Splits. Chaudhary Charan Singh becomes Prime Minister.
800
1979
from 2000 BC
1206
50. Early Harappan Culture
3300
753
78
1552
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