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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. DanishIndia (to 1869)






2. Royal Indian Navy Mutiny - (March) Cabinet Mission






3. British rule in Burma (to 1947)






4. 'Victory of Mohammed Ghauri'. Second battle of Tarain fought between Ghauri and Prithivi Raj Chauhan III. Prithvi Raj Chauhan III is defeated by Mhammed Ghori.






5. Kingdom of Raigama






6. Lohara Kingdom






7. Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind - the Provisional Government of FreeIndia formed by Netaji.






8. 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






9. Indo-Greek Kingdom






10. Kingdom of Gampola






11. 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.






12. Death of Nana Fadnavis






13. Guru Nanak - the founder of Sikhism is born






14. Khudiram Bose is born (to 1908)






15. Tughlaq Sultanate






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






17. British Raj (to 1947)






18. Ashfaqulla Khan is born (to 1927)






19. First Muslim - Md. Bin Qasim defeats Raja Dahir






20. Invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni






21. Mahavira passes away.






22. Republic Day (India)






23. Maharaja Ranjit Singh establishes Khalsa rule of Punjab from Lahore. Khalsa army liberates Kashmiri Pundits and invades Afghanistan through Khyber Pass.






24. Harsha Empire






25. Sikh Empire






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






27. Kakori conspiracy






28. Kalyani Chalukyas power at its peak. Vikramaditya VI ushers in Vikrama Chalukya era.






29. Sena Empire






30. Mahatma Gandhi is born (to 1948)






31. Solanki Kingdom






32. Ala-ud-din Khalji's army under Malik Kafur occupies Devagiri ending the Seuna Yadava Kingdom






33. Conquest of Kalinga






34. Madurai Kingdom






35. Maurya Empire






36. 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






37. The Kalachuris under Bijjala II capture Kalyani






38. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party loses general elections. Janata Party comes to power.Communist party ofIndia comes into power in West Bengal.






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






40. 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.






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






42. Governor Hasan Gangu revolts against Muhammad bin Tughluq founding the Bahmani Sultanate






43. A high-powered rocket is launched - addingIndia to the club of countries able to fire big satellites deep into space.






44. Shivaji dies of fever at Raigad.






45. Establishment of theIndo-Parthian kingdom.






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






47. Mamluk Sultanate






48. First Anglo-Sikh Wars (to 1849)






49. Middle and Late Vedic period (to 500 BC)






50. Kadamba Empire