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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Early modern period






2. Ashoka the Great regarded as the greatest ancientIndian emperor - grandson of Chandragupta Maurya - ascends as emperor of the Mauryan Empire.






3. Royal Indian Navy Mutiny - (March) Cabinet Mission






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






5. Sumra Dynasty ends the Arab domination and establishes its own rule over Sindh.






6. Tughlaq Sultanate






7. Guru Har Rai becomes seventh guru of Sikhs - Shivaji takes oath ofIndependence at Raireshwar.






8. Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.






9. Establishment of Rashtrakuta Kingdom of Manyakhet by Danti Durga by defeating Chalukyas of Badami






10. First Anglo-Maratha War






11. Thanjavur Kingdom






12. Non-cooperation movementKhilafat Movement






13. Died Tatya Tope






14. 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.






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






16. Marava Kingdom






17. Kakori conspiracy






18. Mahmud Ghazni defeats Tarnochalpal and annexes Punjab






19. Battle of Plassey - Company rule inIndia (to 1857)






20. Vedic period






21. Thondaiman Kingdom






22. Vijayanagara Empire






23. Hindu extremists demolish mosque in Ayodhya - triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence.






24. FrenchIndia






25. 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.






26. Mahatma Gandhi is born (to 1948)






27. Proposed death date of Gautama Buddha.






28. Simon Commission






29. Garhwal Kingdom






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






31. Indo-Sassanid Kingdom






32. Gurjara-Pratihara (to 910)






33. Rai Kingdom






34. Cancelation of Partition of Bengal - Delhi Durbar Third Time






35. British Expedition to Tibet






36. Ahom Kingdom






37. Indian Rebellion of 1857






38. Black and Red ware culture






39. 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.






40. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






41. Vedic period






42. Kadamba Empire






43. Kingdom of Gampola






44. The Pandyan king sends ambassadors to the Greek and Roman lands.






45. Sayyid Sultanate






46. Nehru's daughterIndira Gandhi becomes prime minister.






47. Zamorin Kingdom






48. Fourth Anglo-Mysore War begins.






49. 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.






50. Earliest evidence for indus valley civilization