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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. 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.






2. Government of India Act 1935






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






4. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






5. Partition of Bengal






6. Lohara Kingdom






7. Kingdom of Dambadeniya






8. Kuninda Kingdom






9. Stone age






10. Dutch Ceylon






11. Mahatma Gandhi is born (to 1948)






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






13. Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act - 1856 - (23 July) Bal Gangadhar Tilak is born (to 1920) - (20 August) Narayana Guru is born (to 1928)






14. Vedic period






15. '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.






16. Haryanka Kingdom






17. Establishment of theIndo-Scythian kingdom.






18. Indo-Parthian Kingdom






19. Chandragupta Maurya defeats Seleucus Nicator of the Seleucid Empire.






20. Tughlaq Sultanate






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






22. Maurya Empire






23. Chief Justice of the Maratha Empire - Ram Shastri passes death sentence against the ruling Peshwa Raghunathrao for murdering his nephew.






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






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






26. All India Forward Bloc Established by Subhas Chandra Bose






27. Indus Valley Civilization






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






29. (February) Vajpayee makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to meet Premier Nawaz Sharif and to sign bilateral Lahore peace declaration. (May) Tension in Kashmir leads to brief war with Pakistan-backed forces in the icy heights around Kargil inIndian-hel






30. Partition ofIndia






31. 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.






32. First Muslim mosque inIndia constructed in kerala by malik dheenar






33. Kingdom of Anuradhapura






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






35. British rule in Burma (to 1947)






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






37. Gandhi






38. Rajaram Chhatrapati died






39. Jugantar formed. 30 December - Muslim League formed in Dacca.






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






41. Western Satrap Empire






42. Chandra Vidyasagar is born (to 1891)






43. Kuninda Kingdom






44. Garhwal Kingdom






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






46. 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






47. Kingdom of Kandy






48. Indo-Sassanid Kingdom






49. Sikh Confederacy






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