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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.






2. Sunga Empire






3. Mamluk Sultanate






4. Establishment of theIndo-Scythian kingdom.






5. Samudragupta ascends the Gupta throne and expands the empire.






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.






7. Haryanka Kingdom






8. Birth of Babur in Andijan - Fergana Valley in Central Asia






9. Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind - the Provisional Government of FreeIndia formed by Netaji.






10. Congress Party wins first general elections under leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. (to 1952)






11. Kanva Empire






12. Gautamiputra Satkarni becomes Satavahana emperor and starts Shalivahana era calendar after defeating Scythian king Maues.






13. Marava Kingdom






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






15. Ghadar conspiracy - Provisional Government of India formed in Kabul. Gandhiji Return toIndia.






16. At least 50 people are killed in two simultaneous bomb blasts in Bombay.






17. Kingdom of Dambadeniya






18. Chandragupta Maurya defeats Seleucus Nicator of the Seleucid Empire.






19. Last invasion of Mahmud Ghazni - sacked and destroyed temple of Somnath






20. Maharaja Ranjit Singh establishes Khalsa rule of Punjab from Lahore. Khalsa army liberates Kashmiri Pundits and invades Afghanistan through Khyber Pass.






21. First Railway estalblished between Bombay and Thane






22. Huna Kingdom






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






24. Chitradurga Kingdom






25. Sayyid Sultanate






26. Vishnukundina Empire






27. Chola Empire






28. Chandragupta Maurya defeats Seleucus Nicator of the Seleucid Empire.






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.






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






31. Guru Hargobind becomes sixth guru of Sikhs.






32. Swat culture






33. Durrani Empire






34. Lodi Sultanate






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






36. Classical period






37. Birth of Adi Shankaracharya






38. BritishIndia (to 1947) EastIndia Company (to 1757)






39. Kingdoms of Sri Lanka






40. Akbar dies - and is succeeded by his son Jehangir.






41. Madurai Kingdom






42. Late Harappan Culture






43. Kingdom of Kochi is taken over by the Portuguese creating the first European settlement inIndia.






44. 'Prarthana Samaj' Established Earlier known as 'Atmiya Sabha'






45. Battle of Talikota results in the rout of Vijayanagara empire.






46. Advent of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and leader of the world's first civil disobedience movement - in Navadwip - West Bengal






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.






48. PortugueseIndia






49. Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha






50. Battle of Talikota results in the rout of Vijayanagara empire.