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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Kuninda Kingdom






2. First Railway estalblished between Bombay and Thane






3. Kakori conspiracy






4. Kuninda Kingdom






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






6. DanishIndia (to 1869)






7. 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)






8. Kushan Empire






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






10. Swami Vivekanand is born (to 1902)






11. Third Anglo-Maratha War ends with the defeat of Bajirao II and the end of the Maratha Empire leaving the EastIndia Company with control of almost the whole ofIndia






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






13. Kingdom of Dambadeniya






14. Hoysala Empire






15. Sikh Confederacy






16. Yadava Empire






17. Ambhi king of Taxila surrenders to Alexander. Porus who ruled parts of the Punjab - fought Alexander at the Battle of the Hydaspes River.






18. Birth of Shivaji Maharaj.






19. Morley-Minto Reforms






20. Late medieval age






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






22. Third Anglo-Maratha War ends with the defeat of Bajirao II and the end of the Maratha Empire leaving the EastIndia Company with control of almost the whole ofIndia






23. Second Anglo-Maratha War ends






24. Polonnaruwa Kingdom






25. Ashoka conquers and unifies most of South Asia - along with Afghanistan and eastern Iran.






26. 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.






27. Khilji Sultanate






28. DanishIndia






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






30. Earliest evidence for indus valley civilization






31. Early modern period






32. Hindu






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






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






35. Mahavira - 24th Tirthankar of Jainism is born (traditional date).






36. Sultan Ibrahim Lodi - of the Delhi Sultanate - angers local nobles - who respond by inviting Babur - the Mughal ruler of Kabul - to invade Delhi and Agra. The local population - plus the possession of artillery - assists Babur in killing the Sultan (






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






38. Indo-Scythian Kingdom






39. Shivaji dies of fever at Raigad.






40. Shishunaga Kingdom






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






42. 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.






43. Zafar Khan - governor of Gujarat - declares himself as Sultan Muzaffar Shah founding the Gujarat Sultanate/Muzaffarid dynasty






44. Indian Rebellion of 1857






45. Indus Valley Civilization






46. 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.






47. Vijayanagara Empire established by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I






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






49. Chalukya Empire






50. Samma Dynasty assumes rule over Sindh