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Timeline Of Indian History

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






2. Lucknow Pact






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






4. The Christian-Islamic power struggle in Europe and the Middle East. Spills over into theIndian Ocean as Battle of Chaul during the Portuguese-Mamluk War






5. Ashoka dies and is succeeded by Kunala.






6. Ala-ud-din Khalji's army under Malik Kafur occupies Devagiri ending the Seuna Yadava Kingdom






7. India successfully test-fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile - the Agni - off its eastern coast.






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






9. Nanda Empire






10. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association formed.






11. Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha






12. Eastern Ganga Empire






13. Late Harappan Culture






14. Painted Grey Ware culture






15. Kingdom of Anuradhapura






16. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






17. Kamarupa Kingdom






18. BJP forms coalition government under Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee. India carries out nuclear tests - leading to widespread international condemnation.






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






20. Started Post Service






21. Magadha Kingdom






22. FrenchIndia






23. First Anglo-Maratha War






24. Western Chalukya Empire






25. Birth of Shivaji Maharaj.






26. British Ceylon






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






28. 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.






29. Mature Harappan Culture






30. 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.






31. Chandra Vidyasagar is born (to 1891)






32. Swami Vivekanand is born (to 1902)






33. Mahatma Gandhi is born (to 1948)






34. Indian National Congress Eshtablished






35. Thondaiman Kingdom






36. Eastern Chalukya Kingdom






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






38. Maha-Megha-Vahana Empire






39. Ulugh Khan defeats Prataparudra ending the Kakatiya dynasty






40. 'Atmiya Sabha' Established Later on known as 'Prarthana Samaj' By Raja Ram Mohan Roy






41. Third Anglo-Mysore War ends.






42. Kuninda Kingdom established. Tholkappiyam describes the grammar and morphology of Tamil; it is the oldest existing Tamil grammar (dates vary between 200 BCE and 100 CE). (to 100 BC)






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






44. Rigveda (to 1000 BC)






45. A high-powered rocket is launched - addingIndia to the club of countries able to fire big satellites deep into space.






46. Gandhi






47. Marathas re-captures Delhi and parts of NorthIndia.






48. Republic Day (India)






49. Dilawar Khan establishes the Malwa Sultanate in present-day northernIndia






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