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Timeline Of Indian History
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1. Second Anglo-Maratha War ends
1853 - 16 April
1630
1805
1920
2. Polonnaruwa Kingdom
300
1977
543
1759
3. Chandragupta II - Samudragupta's son becomes the Gupta Emperor.
75
1950 - 26 January
380
1398
4. Other states
230
1920
1323
1102
5. Thondaiman Kingdom
1925
1792
1650
3300 BC
6. India successfully test-fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile - the Agni - off its eastern coast.
1944
2800 BC
1760
January 2002
7. Paramara Kingdom
1003-1320 AD
1559
800
230
8. Durrani Empire
1559
1221
1747
1194
9. Birth of Adi Shankaracharya
1552
1323
973
788
10. Pallava Empire
250 BC
3300
1200
1930
11. Northern Black Polished Ware
1505
232 BC
1867
700
12. Sunga Empire
1414
1521
637
185
13. Timur plunders Lahore
57 BC
1943
1565
1398
14. EastIndia company is formed in England. Gets exclusive trading rights withIndia.
1600
1951
1681
10
15. British Raj
80 BC
1858
230 BC
35
16. Establishment of theIndo-Greek kingdom.
1853 - 16 April
180 BC
266 BC
35
17. Dayananda Saraswati is born (to 1883)
1824 - 12 February
1987
266 BC
413
18. Company Raj
2600
1341
1757
1414
19. Eastern Chalukya Kingdom
624
1998
1565
7000
20. Kalyani Chalukyas power at its peak. Vikramaditya VI ushers in Vikrama Chalukya era.
80 BC
1485
35
1120
21. Seleucus gives up his territories in the subcontinent (Afghanistan/Baluchistan) to Chandragupta in exchange for 500 elephants. Seleucus offers his daughter in marriage to Chandragupta to seal their friendship.
1971
304 BC
1839
1765
22. Last invasion of Mahmud Ghazni - sacked and destroyed temple of Somnath
1777
1024
1539
10
23. Rajaram Chhatrapati died
1574
1700
2005 July
185
24. Reddy Kingdom
1325
1206
1680
1586
25. Gurjara Pratihara Empire
650
1761
1559
1799
26. EastIndia Company signs treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh
260 BC
1443
1522
1807
27. Kanva Empire
75
1903
1661
1950 - 26 January
28. Kingdom of Sitawaka
1509
1521
350
321
29. Delhi Sultanate
1620
1775
57 BC
1206
30. Death of Sher Shah Suri and succeeded by Islam Shah.
1708
1817
1545
1272
31. Rai Kingdom
489
629
260 BC
2600 BC
32. Guru Amar Das becomes third Guru of Sikhs.
1552
1940
1875
1070
33. Maratha Empire
1889 - 3 December
1540
1674
1620
34. Subhas Chandra Bose calls Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation.
420
1944
1759
1300
35. British Ceylon
1913
1815
380
1521
36. Eastern Ganga Empire
1078
527 BC
345
1221
37. Zafar Khan - governor of Gujarat - declares himself as Sultan Muzaffar Shah founding the Gujarat Sultanate/Muzaffarid dynasty
1194
836
1407
1526
38. India fires on Pakistani military posts in the heaviest firing along the dividing line of control in Kashmir for almost a year.(NO reference)
October 2001
1505
1990
1559
39. India loses brief border war with China. India won Diu - Daman and Goa from PortugueseIndia.
1565
1554
1962
1336
40. Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya drives out Praudha Raya ending the Sangama Dynasty
1927 - November
1341
1485
2005 July
41. Vijayanagara Empire
538 BC
1336
1919
1929
42. Satavahana Empire
1707
1500 BC
185
230
43. 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.
75
265 BC
1858
1790
44. Eastern Ganga Empire
1814
1078
413
78
45. Bukka - the Vijayanagara ruler and his son Kumara Kamapna capture the entire Tamil speaking parts.
1708
1909
1925
1370
46. Abdur Razzaq visitsIndia
1600
250 BC
1800
1443
47. DutchIndia
1789
1897 - 23 January
1605
1451
48. Birth of Shivaji Maharaj.
1630
1771
1979
1806
49. Non-cooperation movementKhilafat Movement
326 BC
1920
1486
1058
50. Salt Satyagraha - Round Table Conferences (India) First - civil disobedience movement
350
1912
1792
1930