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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Keladi Kingdom






2. Company Raj






3. Western Satrap Empire






4. Bronze age






5. First Anglo-Maratha War






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






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






8. Invasions by the Huna.






9. Partition ofIndia






10. Vellore Mutiny






11. First Anglo-Maratha War begins - in which Haidar Ali of Mysore defeats the combined armies of the EastIndia Company - the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad.






12. Sri-Gupta starts the Gupta Empire in Magadha - with its capital in Patliputra






13. Death of Islam Shah.






14. Delhi conspiracy case






15. First Railway estalblished between Bombay and Thane






16. Satavahana Empire






17. Magadha Kingdom






18. Conquest of Kalinga






19. Chandra Vidyasagar is born (to 1891)






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






21. Muslim separatist groups begin campaign of violence in Kashmir.






22. Shahi Empire






23. Died Tatya Tope






24. Genghis Khan invades Punjab






25. Zafar Khan - governor of Gujarat - declares himself as Sultan Muzaffar Shah founding the Gujarat Sultanate/Muzaffarid dynasty






26. Guru Ram Das becomes fourth Guru of Sikhs. Akbar annexes Bengal.






27. Ahom Kingdom






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






29. First Railway estalblished between Bombay and Thane






30. 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)






31. Gautam Buddha - founder of Buddhism is born.






32. Khilji Sultanate






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






34. Dayananda Saraswati is born (to 1883)






35. Gupta Empire






36. Beginning of Vikram Era






37. Maha Janapadas






38. Gautamiputra Satkarni becomes Satavahana emperor and starts Shalivahana era calendar after defeating Scythian king Maues.






39. Persian rule in the northwest ends after Darius III is defeated by Alexander the Great - who establishes the Macedonian Empire after inheriting the Persian Achaemenid Empire.






40. Vedic period






41. Sunga Empire






42. Chitradurga Kingdom






43. DutchIndia






44. Iron age






45. The Mauryan Empire - which shrunk considerably - collapsed after its emperor Brihadrata was assassinated by his general Pusyamitra Sunga who then established the Sunga dynasty.






46. Ashoka begins displaying religious tolerance - grants animal rights - builds hospitals for people and animals - treats his subjects as equals regardless of caste or creed - and promotes non-violence and republicanism. Ashoka inscribes the Edicts of A






47. Inter-religious bloodshed breaks out after 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya are killed in a train fire in Godhra - Gujarat. More than 1000 people - mainly Muslims - die in subsequent riots. (Police and officials blamed the fire on a Muslim mo






48. Gandhi






49. Lucknow Pact






50. Establishment of theIndo-Parthian kingdom.