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Timeline Of Indian History

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1. Iron age






2. Veera Ballala III killed at the Battle of Madurai.






3. First Anglo-Sikh Wars (to 1849)






4. Lahore Resolution - August offer 1940






5. First Anglo-Maratha War begins - in which Haidar Ali of Mysore defeats the combined armies of the EastIndia Company - the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad.






6. Timur plunders Lahore






7. Bardoli Satyagraha






8. Partition ofIndia






9. Vakataka Empire






10. Mehrgarh Culture






11. Indo-Sassanid Kingdom






12. Guru Arjan Dev becomes fifth Guru of Sikhs.






13. Solanki Kingdom






14. Kalabhras Empire






15. Mughal army arrested for the act.






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






17. PortugueseIndia






18. All India Forward Bloc Established by Subhas Chandra Bose






19. Guru Tegh Bahadur becomes ninth Guru of Sikhs.






20. Death of Ahilyabai Holkar






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






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






23. 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.






24. Chandragupta I ascends to the Gupta throne.






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






26. Maitraka Empire






27. Government of India Act 1935






28. Deva Kingdom






29. Ashoka dies and is succeeded by Kunala.






30. (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






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






32. 'Arya Samaj' Established - Aligarh Muslim University






33. Rigveda (to 1000 BC)






34. Death of Ahilyabai Holkar






35. Garhwal Kingdom






36. Eastern Ganga Empire






37. Mysore Kingdom






38. Massive earthquakes hit the western state of Gujarat - leaving at least 30000 dead.






39. Gupta Empire






40. Mature Harappan Culture






41. Governor Hasan Gangu revolts against Muhammad bin Tughluq founding the Bahmani Sultanate






42. Chitradurga Kingdom






43. Invasions by the Huna.






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






45. Tughlaq Sultanate






46. Dutch Ceylon






47. Partition of Bengal






48. Anushilan Samiti - organized revolutionary association formed.






49. 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






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