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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. DanishIndia






2. Third Anglo-Mysore War begins.






3. Guru Gobind Singh - the 10th Guru of Sikhs creates Khalsa - the saint-soldier at Anandpur Sahib - Punjab.






4. Established first three University of Mumbai - University of Madras and University of Calcutta inIndia






5. First Anglo-Afghan War






6. Third Anglo-Mysore War ends.






7. Timur plunders Lahore






8. Vakataka Empire






9. Maitraka Empire






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






11. Started Post Service






12. Akbar annexes Kashmir.






13. Quit India Movement - (Late March) Cripps' mission - (August) Indian National Army Established by Subhas Chandra Bose






14. Death of Islam Shah.






15. Deva Kingdom






16. Late Harappan Phase of theIndus Valley Civilization begins - including Cemetery H culture and other cultures.






17. Vellore Mutiny






18. Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers. Economic reform programme begun by Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.






19. FrenchIndia






20. Maitraka Empire






21. Poona Pact - (4 August) Communal Award - (November






22. Troops storm Golden Temple - Sikhs' most holy shrine - to flush out Sikh militants pressing for self-rule. Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikh bodyguards - following which her son - Rajiv - takes over.






23. Keladi Kingdom






24. 'Arya Samaj' Established - Aligarh Muslim University






25. Delhi conspiracy case






26. Durrani Empire






27. Jehangir announces 'Chain of Justice' outside his palace that anyone can ring the bell and get a personal hearing with the emperor. Jehangir dies - and is succeeded by his son Shah Jahan.






28. Invasions by the Huna.






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






30. FrenchIndia (to 1954)






31. First Anglo-Maratha War






32. Late medieval age






33. Kingdom of Anuradhapura






34. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






35. Birth of Adi Shankaracharya






36. Bahlul Khan Lodhi ascends the throne of the Delhi sultanate starting the Lodhi dynasty






37. Early Vedic period (to 1000 BC)






38. Vishnukundina Empire






39. Indian Rebellion of 1857






40. Paramara Kingdom






41. Troops storm Golden Temple - Sikhs' most holy shrine - to flush out Sikh militants pressing for self-rule. Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikh bodyguards - following which her son - Rajiv - takes over.






42. Battle of Chandawar fought between Ghauri and Jaichand of Kannauj. Ghauri defeated Jayachandra and killed him.






43. Indo-Parthian Kingdom






44. Invasions by the Huna.






45. US lifts sanctions which it imposed againstIndia and Pakistan after they staged nuclear tests in 1998. The move is seen as a reward for their support for the US-led anti-terror campaign.






46. Panini - a resident of Gandhara - describes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit.






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






48. Gurjara-Pratihara (to 910)






49. Death of Yashwantrao Holkar






50. Western Chalukya Empire