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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Partition of Bengal






2. Chera Kingdom






3. Sayyid Sultanate






4. Humayun regained the throne of Delhi from the hands of weak successors of Sher Shah.






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






6. Genghis Khan invades Punjab






7. Shah Jahan completes Taj Mahal - Jama Masjid[disambiguation needed] - and RedFort. Imperial treasuries drained by architectural and military overexpenditures. Shah Jahan dies - and is succeeded by his son Aurangzeb.






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






9. Ashoka dies and is succeeded by Kunala.






10. Kakori conspiracy






11. Mahmud Ghazni defeats Tarnochalpal and annexes Punjab






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






13. BritishIndia (to 1947) EastIndia Company (to 1757)






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






15. US lifts sanctions which it imposed againstIndia and Pakistan after they staged nuclear tests in 1998. The move is seen as a reward for their support for the US-led anti-terror campaign.






16. Mallikarjuna Raya succeeds his father Deva Raya II






17. Second Anglo-Maratha War ends






18. IndianIndependence Act 1947 by British Raj. Partition ofIndia - Freedom from British Raj. Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal bloodshed after partition. (to 1948)






19. India fires on Pakistani military posts in the heaviest firing along the dividing line of control in Kashmir for almost a year.(NO reference)






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






21. Eastern Ganga Empire






22. Chalukya Empire






23. Samudragupta ascends the Gupta throne and expands the empire.






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






25. 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.






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






27. 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.






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






29. B. R. Ambedkar is born (to 1956)






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






31. Deccan Sultanates






32. Sena Empire






33. Dilawar Khan establishes the Malwa Sultanate in present-day northernIndia






34. 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






35. Keladi Kingdom






36. Gurjara-Pratihara (to 910)






37. Maratha Empire






38. Khizr Khan - deputized by Timur to be the governor of Multan takes over Delhi founding the Sayyid dynasty






39. Ochre Coloured Pottery culture






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






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






42. Shahi Empire






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






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






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






46. Zamorin Kingdom






47. Swat culture






48. Eastern Chalukya Kingdom






49. Conquest of Kalinga






50. Guru Gobind Singh - the 10th Guru of Sikhs creates Khalsa - the saint-soldier at Anandpur Sahib - Punjab.