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Timeline Of Indian History

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






2. Ashfaqulla Khan is born (to 1927)






3. Cyrus the Great - founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquers northwestern parts of theIndian subcontinent.






4. 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.






5. Gadar Party formed.






6. Indira Gandhi declares state of emergency after being found guilty of electoral malpractice. Nearly 1000 political opponents imprisoned and programme of compulsory birth control introduced. (to 1977)






7. Akbar the Great annexes Gujarat - also shifts the Mughal capital to Fatehpur Sikri where a new township and citadel containing buildings of a unique all-India character






8. Subhas Chandra Bose calls Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation.






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






10. Dayananda Saraswati is born (to 1883)






11. Vajpayee's BJP party declines his offer to resign over a number of political scandals and the apparent failure of his talks with Pakistani President Musharraf.






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






13. Government of India Act 1935






14. India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.






15. Samma Dynasty assumes rule over Sindh






16. Indo-Greek Kingdom






17. Chera Kingdom






18. 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






19. Simon Commission






20. Kadamba Empire






21. Marava Kingdom






22. Death of Yashwantrao Holkar






23. Kingdom of Kandy






24. 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.






25. Shahi Empire






26. Ahmadnagar declares independence - followed by Bijapur and Berar in the same year thus breaking up the Bahmani Sultanate.






27. FrenchIndia (to 1954)






28. Kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara






29. Establishment of theIndo-Scythian kingdom.






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






31. Ram Mohan Roy Born (to 1833)






32. Guru Granth Sahib becomes Guru of Sikhs.






33. Kuninda Kingdom






34. Bardoli Satyagraha






35. Fourth Anglo-Mysore War begins.






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






37. Stone age






38. Battle of Buxar






39. Huna Kingdom






40. First Muslim mosque inIndia constructed in kerala by malik dheenar






41. Bukka - the Vijayanagara ruler and his son Kumara Kamapna capture the entire Tamil speaking parts.






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






43. Gakhars kills Muhammad Ghori during a raid on his camp on the Jhelum River






44. Kingdoms of Sri Lanka






45. Nearly 200 people are killed and hundreds injured in a series of co-ordinated attacks by gunmen on the main tourist and business area ofIndia's financial capital Mumbai.India blames militants from Pakistan for the attacks and demands that Islamabad t






46. Late medieval age






47. Vasco de Gama's first voyage from Europe toIndia and back (to 1499)






48. Nanda Empire






49. Janata Party Splits. Chaudhary Charan Singh becomes Prime Minister.






50. Early Harappan Culture







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