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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Establishment of theIndo-Scythian kingdom.






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






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






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






5. Chitradurga Kingdom






6. Early Vedic period (to 1000 BC)






7. Invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni






8. Kingdom of Tambapanni






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






10. Satavahana Empire






11. Mysore Kingdom






12. British Ceylon






13. 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






14. Indo-Sassanid Kingdom






15. Rigveda (to 1000 BC)






16. Early Harappan Culture






17. Thondaiman Kingdom






18. Khudiram Bose is born (to 1908)






19. Gajapati Kingdom






20. Invasions by the Huna.






21. Early modern period






22. District collectors in Bengal were made responsible for settling the revenue and collecting it.






23. Vajpayee meets Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the first summit between the two neighbours in more than two years. The meeting ends without a breakthrough or even a joint statement because of differences over Kashmir.






24. Portuguese land on the Coromandel Coast






25. Kingdom of Kurunegala






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






27. Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha






28. Siddharta Gautama 'Buddha' of the Shakya polity in S. Nepal - founds Buddhism (older date - 563






29. Delhi Sultanate






30. Simuka declares independence from Mauryan rule and establishes the Satavahana Empire.






31. Pala Empire






32. Yadava Empire






33. EastIndia company is formed in England. Gets exclusive trading rights withIndia.






34. Chandragupta I ascends to the Gupta throne.






35. Reddy Kingdom






36. Cancelation of Partition of Bengal - Delhi Durbar Third Time






37. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






38. Ghadar conspiracy - Provisional Government of India formed in Kabul. Gandhiji Return toIndia.






39. Akbar dies - and is succeeded by his son Jehangir.






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






41. Reddy Kingdom






42. Mallikarjuna Raya succeeds his father Deva Raya II






43. Mahavira - 24th Tirthankar of Jainism is born (traditional date).






44. 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.






45. Western Chalukya Empire






46. Period IV of Mehrgarh ends






47. Akbar annexes Kashmir.






48. Kingdom of Kandy






49. Gupta Empire






50. Satavahana Empire