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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Guru Ram Das becomes fourth Guru of Sikhs. Akbar annexes Bengal.






2. Kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara






3. Establishment of the Kushan empire by Kujula Kadphises.






4. Chalukya Empire






5. Lala Lajpat Rai is born (to 1928)






6. Period IV of Mehrgarh ends






7. Company Raj






8. First Anglo-Maratha War begins - in which Haidar Ali of Mysore defeats the combined armies of the EastIndia Company - the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad.






9. Maitraka Empire






10. Kakatiya Kingdom






11. Indus Valley Civilization






12. Portuguese land on the Coromandel Coast






13. Polonnaruwa Kingdom






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






15. Pandya Empire






16. Invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni






17. Rajaram Chhatrapati died






18. Kingdom of Raigama






19. British Expedition to Tibet






20. Non-cooperation movementKhilafat Movement






21. Establishment of the Kushan empire by Kujula Kadphises.






22. Shishunaga Kingdom






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






24. Sultan Ibrahim Lodi - of the Delhi Sultanate - angers local nobles - who respond by inviting Babur - the Mughal ruler of Kabul - to invade Delhi and Agra. The local population - plus the possession of artillery - assists Babur in killing the Sultan (






25. Kingdom of Kotte






26. Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.






27. Died Tatya Tope






28. Rigveda (to 1000 BC)






29. Subhas Chandra Bose is born (to 1945)






30. Thanjavur Kingdom






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






32. Nehru's daughterIndira Gandhi becomes prime minister.






33. (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






34. First Anglo-Sikh Wars (to 1849)






35. Ching-Thang Khomba moves Manipur's capital to Kangla






36. 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






37. 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






38. Kingdom of Tambapanni






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






40. Shahi Empire






41. Second war with Pakistan over Kashmir.






42. Akbar annexes Kashmir.






43. Gajapati Kingdom






44. Stone age






45. Chandra Vidyasagar is born (to 1891)






46. DanishIndia






47. Indo-Scythian Kingdom






48. Mughal army arrested for the act.






49. Kushan Empire






50. British rule in Burma (to 1947)