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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Second Anglo-Maratha War ends






2. Polonnaruwa Kingdom






3. Chandragupta II - Samudragupta's son becomes the Gupta Emperor.






4. Other states






5. Thondaiman Kingdom






6. India successfully test-fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile - the Agni - off its eastern coast.






7. Paramara Kingdom






8. Durrani Empire






9. Birth of Adi Shankaracharya






10. Pallava Empire






11. Northern Black Polished Ware






12. Sunga Empire






13. Timur plunders Lahore






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






15. British Raj






16. Establishment of theIndo-Greek kingdom.






17. Dayananda Saraswati is born (to 1883)






18. Company Raj






19. Eastern Chalukya Kingdom






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






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.






22. Last invasion of Mahmud Ghazni - sacked and destroyed temple of Somnath






23. Rajaram Chhatrapati died






24. Reddy Kingdom






25. Gurjara Pratihara Empire






26. EastIndia Company signs treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh






27. Kanva Empire






28. Kingdom of Sitawaka






29. Delhi Sultanate






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






31. Rai Kingdom






32. Guru Amar Das becomes third Guru of Sikhs.






33. Maratha Empire






34. Subhas Chandra Bose calls Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation.






35. British Ceylon






36. Eastern Ganga Empire






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






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)






39. India loses brief border war with China. India won Diu - Daman and Goa from PortugueseIndia.






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






41. Vijayanagara Empire






42. Satavahana Empire






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.






44. Eastern Ganga Empire






45. Bukka - the Vijayanagara ruler and his son Kumara Kamapna capture the entire Tamil speaking parts.






46. Abdur Razzaq visitsIndia






47. DutchIndia






48. Birth of Shivaji Maharaj.






49. Non-cooperation movementKhilafat Movement






50. Salt Satyagraha - Round Table Conferences (India) First - civil disobedience movement