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Timeline Of Indian History
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1. Battle of Chausa fought between Humayun and Sher Shah Suri in which Humayun defeated. Guru Angad Dev becomes second guru of sikhs.
1539
321 BC
1078
1358
2. Sunga Empire
185
1510
1760
1826
3. Mamluk Sultanate
1206
1509
1500 BC
1565
4. Establishment of theIndo-Scythian kingdom.
1030
1700
80 BC
1521
5. Samudragupta ascends the Gupta throne and expands the empire.
1856
335
2600 BC
60
6. 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.
300 BC
1399
1658
200 BC
7. Haryanka Kingdom
1765
684
2003 August
1526
8. Birth of Babur in Andijan - Fergana Valley in Central Asia
1483
543
606
1789
9. Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind - the Provisional Government of FreeIndia formed by Netaji.
1815
1943
684
1003-1320 AD
10. Congress Party wins first general elections under leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. (to 1952)
1815
1674
1200s
1951
11. Kanva Empire
75
1586
1451
1572
12. Gautamiputra Satkarni becomes Satavahana emperor and starts Shalivahana era calendar after defeating Scythian king Maues.
78
1707
1948 - 30 January
200 BC
13. Marava Kingdom
2000
1600
1200 BC
600 BC
14. Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya drives out Praudha Raya ending the Sangama Dynasty
1572
1351
1485
1927 - November
15. Ghadar conspiracy - Provisional Government of India formed in Kabul. Gandhiji Return toIndia.
1757
1915
543 BC
1192
16. At least 50 people are killed in two simultaneous bomb blasts in Bombay.
2003 August
1984
1540
1853
17. Kingdom of Dambadeniya
266 BC
1522
1220
March 2007
18. Chandragupta Maurya defeats Seleucus Nicator of the Seleucid Empire.
305 BC
1966
1925
1705
19. Last invasion of Mahmud Ghazni - sacked and destroyed temple of Somnath
1293
1024
1935 - August
350 BC
20. Maharaja Ranjit Singh establishes Khalsa rule of Punjab from Lahore. Khalsa army liberates Kashmiri Pundits and invades Afghanistan through Khyber Pass.
1801
1729
1192
1965
21. First Railway estalblished between Bombay and Thane
200 BC
1521
November 2008
1853 - 16 April
22. Huna Kingdom
380
266 BC
475
1681
23. Ching-Thang Khomba moves Manipur's capital to Kangla
753
377 BC
1796
1971
24. Chitradurga Kingdom
1917
1696
1845
1300
25. Sayyid Sultanate
335
1526
1500 BC
1414
26. Vishnukundina Empire
1526
1272
420
200 BC
27. Chola Empire
265 BC
230 BC
1120
300 BC
28. Chandragupta Maurya defeats Seleucus Nicator of the Seleucid Empire.
1510
1759
305 BC
1515
29. 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.
333 BC
October 2001
21
1928
30. Chandragupta II - Samudragupta's son becomes the Gupta Emperor.
1503
380
563 BC
200s BC
31. Guru Hargobind becomes sixth guru of Sikhs.
1869
1992
1606
1912
32. Swat culture
1815
1600
1565
1003-1320 AD
33. Durrani Empire
450
1130
1940
1747
34. Lodi Sultanate
260 BC
3000
1499
1451
35. 'Atmiya Sabha' Established Later on known as 'Prarthana Samaj' By Raja Ram Mohan Roy
1814
from 2000 BC
305 BC
1221
36. Classical period
1325
1800
1
814
37. Birth of Adi Shankaracharya
1980
788
2003 August
333 BC
38. BritishIndia (to 1947) EastIndia Company (to 1757)
1612
200 BC
1658
1944
39. Kingdoms of Sri Lanka
543 BC
1414
1869
1605
40. Akbar dies - and is succeeded by his son Jehangir.
1424
1911
753
1605
41. Madurai Kingdom
1950 - 26 January
1559
527 BC
420
42. Late Harappan Culture
1917
300 BC
1700
543
43. Kingdom of Kochi is taken over by the Portuguese creating the first European settlement inIndia.
1971
600 BC
1503
1913
44. 'Prarthana Samaj' Established Earlier known as 'Atmiya Sabha'
1867
1966
1486
750
45. Battle of Talikota results in the rout of Vijayanagara empire.
1565
250s
1946 - February
3300 BC
46. Advent of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and leader of the world's first civil disobedience movement - in Navadwip - West Bengal
1824 - 12 February
1486
1120
500s
47. Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers. Economic reform programme begun by Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.
1991
1757
1659
1764
48. PortugueseIndia
1865 - 28 January
1877 - January
1801
1510
49. Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha
1947 - July
1917
1939
1370
50. Battle of Talikota results in the rout of Vijayanagara empire.
335
2600 BC
1565
1857