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Timeline Of Indian History
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1. Early Harappan Culture
3300
December 2001
320
280
2. Birth of Shivaji Maharaj.
October 2001
1630
250
1220
3. Lucknow Pact
3300
1760
1807
1916
4. Lala Lajpat Rai is born (to 1928)
1003-1320 AD
7000
1865 - 28 January
1987
5. Maurya Empire
1977
300
321
200 BC
6. Indo-Greek Kingdom
1900 - 22 October
180 BC
1909
September 2001
7. Kingdom of Kotte
1024
1485
1412
1924
8. British Ceylon
1799
1903
1815
7000
9. Second Anglo-Mysore War begins.
1800
1630
200 BC
1780
10. Falling public support leads to Congress defeat in general election.
420
1989
712
1801
11. The Mauryan Empire - which shrunk considerably - collapsed after its emperor Brihadrata was assassinated by his general Pusyamitra Sunga who then established the Sunga dynasty.
942
184 BC
1757
1796
12. First Railway estalblished between Bombay and Thane
1853 - 16 April
3000
250s BC
1499
13. Ching-Thang Khomba moves Manipur's capital to Kangla
1796
350 BC
321 BC
1675
14. Massive earthquakes hit the western state of Gujarat - leaving at least 30000 dead.
January 2001
1780
1401
1120
15. Birth of Adi Shankaracharya
1336
1757
788
1323
16. Abdur Razzaq visitsIndia
1443
1024
232 BC
1134
17. Invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni
942
1000
1102
250 BC
18. Mature Harappan phase of theIndus Valley Civilization begins. The cities of Harappa - Lothal - Kalibangan - Dholavira - Rakhigarhi and Mohenjo-daro become large metropolises and the civilization expands to over 2 -500 cities and settlements. The civi
2600 BC
1446
1656
1792
19. Madurai Kingdom
7000
304 BC
1559
1290
20. Guru Granth Sahib becomes Guru of Sikhs.
1950 - 26 January
1708
1336
1581
21. Aurangzeb invades the Deccan
1803
400 BC
1779
1681
22. FrenchIndia
1505
250s BC
1948 - 30 January
1759
23. Vedic period
1510
2000
1341
1817
24. Chitradurga Kingdom
March 2007
1120
1300
1510
25. Middle and Late Vedic period (to 500 BC)
1000 BC
1707
2000
230
26. The Christian-Islamic power struggle in Europe and the Middle East. Spills over into theIndian Ocean as Battle of Chaul during the Portuguese-Mamluk War
1508
January 2002
1665
1818
27. Eastern Chalukya Kingdom
1412
1021
624
1799
28. Gurjara Pratihara Empire
1799
1792
1030
650
29. Kingdom of Raigama
1902
1347
1912
80 BC
30. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association formed.
1924
1964
200 AD
400 BC
31. Stone age
7000
1944
1875
1759
32. Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
1853
1935 - August
1964
21
33. Guru Ram Das becomes fourth Guru of Sikhs. Akbar annexes Bengal.
1424
1814
1399
1574
34. Advent of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and leader of the world's first civil disobedience movement - in Navadwip - West Bengal
1310
1486
from 2000 BC
489
35. Delhi conspiracy case
1003-1320 AD
1912
1915
712
36. First Anglo-Sikh Wars (to 1849)
1221
1845
1586
305 BC
37. The Kalachuris under Bijjala II capture Kalyani
250s
1796
550s
1157
38. Shivaji dies of fever at Raigad.
1991
750
1680
1911
39. Vishnukundina Empire
420
10
1451
345
40. Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha
321
1773
1917
200 BC
41. Lahore Resolution - August offer 1940
1940
265 BC
3400 BCE
1795
42. Kingdom of Kurunegala
1765
184 BC
1293
200s BC
43. More than 1000 people are killed in floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains in Mumbai (Bombay) and Maharashtra region.
2005 July
300
1358
232 BC
44. Rajaram Chhatrapati died
1772
January 2002
450 BC
1700
45. Zamorin Kingdom
1729
1650
1102
January 2002
46. Death of Nana Fadnavis
1572
300 BC
1200 BC
1800
47. Rai Kingdom
1446
200s BC
505
489
48. Rajaram Chhatrapati died
1919
1700
1865 - 28 January
1508
49. Sri-Gupta starts the Gupta Empire in Magadha - with its capital in Patliputra
1700
1681
240
500s
50. Ambhi king of Taxila surrenders to Alexander. Porus who ruled parts of the Punjab - fought Alexander at the Battle of the Hydaspes River.
326 BC
483 BC
1024
1911