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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Black and Red ware culture






2. PortugueseIndia






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






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






5. Kingdom of Kandy






6. Third Anglo-Mysore War ends.






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






8. Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.






9. Sixteen Maha Janapadas ('Great Realms' or 'Great Kingdoms') emerge.






10. Indo-Scythian Kingdom






11. DanishIndia






12. Battle of Plassey - Company rule inIndia (to 1857)






13. Classical period






14. Guru Ram Das becomes fourth Guru of Sikhs. Akbar annexes Bengal.






15. British Expedition to Tibet






16. The Maratha Peshwa (prime minister) usurps the Maratha kingdom - starting a new dynastic rule based in Pune.






17. 'Victory of Prithviraj Chauhan'.First battle of Tarain between Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj III. Ghauri is defeated by Prithivi Raj Chauhan III.






18. Kalyani Chalukyas power at its peak. Vikramaditya VI ushers in Vikrama Chalukya era.






19. Kingdom of Ruhuna






20. First Anglo-Maratha War






21. Guru Arjan Dev becomes fifth Guru of Sikhs.






22. Portuguese Ceylon






23. US President Bill Clinton makes a groundbreaking visit to improve ties. (May) India marks the birth of its billionth citizen.






24. Death of Sher Shah Suri and succeeded by Islam Shah.






25. DutchIndia






26. Gurjara-Pratihara (to 910)






27. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party loses general elections. Janata Party comes to power.Communist party ofIndia comes into power in West Bengal.






28. Swami Vivekanand is born (to 1902)






29. British Ceylon






30. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






31. Kamarupa Kingdom






32. Chief Justice of the Maratha Empire - Ram Shastri passes death sentence against the ruling Peshwa Raghunathrao for murdering his nephew.






33. Narayanrao Peshwa is murdered by his uncle Raghunathrao's wife in front of Raghunathrao. Regulating Act of 1773 - Warren Hastings appointed as first Governor-General ofIndia






34. Late Harappan Culture






35. Satavahana Empire






36. Jallianwala Bagh massacre - Montagu






37. Paramara Kingdom






38. First Anglo-Sikh Wars (to 1849)






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






40. Timur plunders Lahore






41. Forces led by Shivaji defeat Aurangzeb's troops - and establishes Maratha Empire.






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






44. (February) Vajpayee makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to meet Premier Nawaz Sharif and to sign bilateral Lahore peace declaration. (May) Tension in Kashmir leads to brief war with Pakistan-backed forces in the icy heights around Kargil inIndian-hel






45. Northern Black Polished Ware






46. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party loses general elections. Janata Party comes to power.Communist party ofIndia comes into power in West Bengal.






47. Huna Kingdom






48. Ulugh Khan defeats Prataparudra ending the Kakatiya dynasty






49. Kalinga War takes place between Ashoka and the kingdom of Kalinga. After conquering Kalinga - Ashoka reportedly regrets what he had done - leading him to adopt Buddhism - which then became the quasi-official state religion of the Mauryan Empire.






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