CHRONOLOGICAL OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN INDIAN HISTORY

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2550-1750 BC Indus Valley Civilization

1500-1000 Rig Vedic Period

599 BC Birth of Mahavira

563 BC Birth of Buddha

527 BC Nirvana of Mahavira

322 BC The Maurya Empire was founded

300 BC – 300 AD Sangam Age

327-326 BC Alexander’s invasion of India

326 BC Battle of the Hydaspes

261 BC Kalinga War

78 AD Beginning of Saka Era

1191 First battle of Tarain

1192 Second battle of Tarain.

1206 Qutb-ud-din Aibak established ‘Slave Dynasty/ Mamluk dynasty’

1221 Chengiz Khan invaded India

1336 Vijayanagara Empire established

1398 Timur’s invasion of India

1469 Birth of Guru Nanak

1498 Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut (now Kozhikode),India

1526 The first Battle of Panipat

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1526 Babur defeats Ibrahim Lodi, the Delhi Sultan, at Panipat, becomes the
first Mughal emperor

1530-40 First phase of Humayun’s reign

1539 Battle of Chausa fought between Mughal emperor Humayun and Sher
Shah Suri

1540 Battle of Kannauj fought between Humayun and Sher Shah Suri

1540-55 Humayun defeated by Sher Shah, in exile at the Safavid court

1555-56 Humayun regains lost territories

1556 Second Battle of Panipat

1556-1605 Reign of Akbar

1565 Battle of Talikota

1571 Foundation of Fatehpur Sikri.

1576 Battle of Haldighati

1600 English East India Company established

1605-27 Reign of Jahangir

1628-58 Reign of Shah Jahan

1658-1707 Reign of Aurangzeb

1664 French east India Company established

1668 The British monarch King Charles II granted Bombay to the East India
Company on 27th March 1668 for an annual rent of £10

1668 Alamgir Nama, a history of the first ten years of Aurangzeb’s

reign compiled by Muhammmad Kazim

1674 Maratha Empire established

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1675 Execution of Guru Tegh Bahadur

1680 Death of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

1707 Death of Aurangzeb

1739 Nadir Shah invades India.

1756 The Black Hole tragedy

1757 Battle of Plassey (Decisive victory of the British in the Battle of Plassey;
the British become rulers of Bengal)

1760 Battle at Wandiwash. (The Battle of Wandiwash was a battle in India

between the French and the British)

1761 Ahmad Shah Abdali defeats the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat

1764 Battle of Buxar

1765 The diwani of Bengal transferred to the East India Company

1767 First Anglo-Mysore War

1770 The Great Bengal Famine.

1773 Warren Hastings appointed as first Governor-General of India

1773 Regulating Act

1773 Supreme Court set up in Calcutta by the East India Company

1784 Pitt’s India Act

1784 Asiatic Society (Bengal) founded by Sir William Jones

1776 Treaty of Purandhar

1793 The Permanent Settlement of Bengal.

1793 Cornwallis Code enacted

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1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

1800 Colin Mackenzie visits Vijayanagara

1801 Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Wellesley in Awadh

1803 Lord Wellesley’s Minute on Calcutta town improvement

1806 Vellore Mutiny

1810s Colin Mackenzie collects over 8,000 inscriptions in

Sanskrit and Dravidian languages

1814 Raja Ram Mohan Roy formed Atmiya Sabha

1814 Founding of the Indian Museum, Calcutta

1829 Practice of Sati prohibited.

1835 Macaulay’s Education Resolution. English was made the official language
for the government and courts, and was adopted as the official medium of
instruction

1835-1842 James Fergusson surveys major archaeological sites

1838 Decipherment of Asokan Brahmi by James Prinsep

1851 Establishment of the Government Museum, Madras

1852 Second Anglo-Burmese War.

1853 First Railway line opened between Mumbai and Thane

1854 Charles Wood’s despatch on Education.

1855 Santhal rebellion

1856 Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act

1856 Alexander Greenlaw takes the first detailed photographs

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of archaeological remains at Hampi

1857 First spinning and weaving mill in Bombay

1857 First War of Indian Independence

1857 The Universities of Madras, Calcutta and Bombay were established

1857 Last Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah II, deposed by the British and exiled to
Rangoon (present day Yangon, Myanmar)

1861 Birth of Rabindranath Tagore

1861 Archaeological Survey of India established

1863 Birth of Swami Vivekananda

1869 Birth of Mahatma Gandhi

1873 Jyotirao Phule established the Satyashodhak Samaj society.

1875 Swami Dayananda saraswathi founded the Arya samaj.

1875 Report of Alexander Cunningham on Harappan seal

1875 Ryots in Deccan villages rebel

1876 J.F. Fleet begins documenting the inscriptions on the

temple walls at the site

1877 Alexander Cunningham publishes a set of Asokan

Inscriptions

1878 Rajendra Lala Mitra publishes Buddha Gaya: The Heritage of Sakya Muni

1880 H.H. Cole appointed Curator of Ancient Monuments

1885 The Indian National Congress was established

1886 First issue of Epigraphia Carnatica, a journal of south

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Indian inscriptions

1888 First issue of Epigraphia Indica

1889 Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru

1892 Dadabhai Naoroji was elected as First Indian Member of Britain

Parliament

1896 First screening of a film at Watson’s Hotel, Bombay

1896 Plague starts spreading to major cities

1897 Birth of Subhash Chandra Bose.

1897 Ramakrishna Mission founded.

1897 Chapekar brothers assassinated W.C.Rand.

1897 Birth of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

1902 Conservation begins under John Marshall

1903 British expedition to Tibet

1905 Partition of Bengal

1905 Swadeshi movement

1906 All India Muslim League established in Dhaka

1907 Surat Split

1908 Alipore bomb case

1909 Morley-Minto Reforms

1911 India’s capital moved from Calcutta to Delhi

1911 Partition of Bengal was cancelled.

1912 Delhi conspiracy case

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1913 Gadar Party formed.

1913 Rabindranath Tagore receives Nobel Prize for Literature

1914 Outbreak of World War I

1914 John Marshall and Alfred Foucher publish The Monuments of Sanchi

1915 Mohandas Gandhi returns to India

1915 Gandhi founds Sabarmati Ashram

1916 Lucknow Pact

1917 Champaran Satyagraha

1918 Peasant movements in Kheda (Gujarat), and workers’ movement in

Ahmedabad

1919 Rowlatt Act

1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar

1919 Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms

1920 Non-cooperation movement

1920 Establishment of League of Nations

1921 Malabar Rebellion and Wagon Tragedy.

1921 Harappa excavations begin.

1921 M.S. Vats begins excavations at Harappa

1922 Mohenjodaro excavations begin.

1922 Chauri-Chaura incident

1923 John Marshall publishes the Conservation Manual

1925 Communist Party of India was founded.

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1925 Kakori conspiracy

1925 Excavations begin at Mohenjodaro

1928 Bardoli Satyagraha

1929 Central Assembly Bombing by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt

1929 Purna Swaraj resolution

1929 The Great Depression

1930 Civil Disobedience Movement

1930 The first Round Table Conference

1931 The second Round Table Conference

1931 Gandhi–Irwin Pact

1932 The third Round Table Conference

1932 Establishment of Indian Air Force

1932 Poona Pact

1933 The name Pakistan or Pak-stan is coined by a Punjabi Muslim student at

Cambridge, Choudhry Rehmat Ali

1935 Reserve bank of India established

1936 All India Kisan Sabha formed.

1939 Outbreak of World War II

1939 The All India Forward Bloc established by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

1940 August offer

1942 Cripps Mission

1942 Quit India movement

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1945 Wavell Plan

1945 End of World War II

1945 Establishment of United Nations Organisation

1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny

1946 Cabinet Mission

1946 Direct Action Day (16 August 1946)

1946 R.E.M. Wheeler excavates at Harappa

1947 India became independent from British Rule

1949 Chinese Revolution

1950 India becomes Republic

1955 S.R. Rao begins excavations at Lothal

1955 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru lays the foundation stone of the National
Museum, New Delhi

1960 B.B. Lal and B.K. Thapar begin excavations at Kalibangan

1974 M.R. Mughal begins explorations in Bahawalpur

1980 A team of German and Italian archaeologists begins surface explorations

at Mohenjodaro.

1986 American team begins excavations at Harappa

1986 Hampi declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO

1989 Sanchi declared a World Heritage Site

1990 R.S. Bisht begins excavations at Dholavira

IMPORTANT DYNASTIES IN INDIAN HISTOY

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Mauryan Empire (322-185 BC)

• Chandragupta Maurya (322 B.C- 298 B.C.)

• Bindusara (297 B.C-272 B.C)
• Asoka The Great (268 B.C-232 B.C)
• Brihadratha (187 B.C-185 B.C)
Gupta Empire

• Chandragupta I 320 AD - 330 AD

• Samudra Gupta 330 AD - 380 AD
• Chandra Gupta II 380 AD - 413 AD
Vardhana Dynasty (580 AD - 647 AD)

• Harsha Vardhana (606 AD - 647 AD)

Delhi Sultanate (1206 AD – 1526 AD)
The Slave dynasty (1206-90)

• Qutb-Ud-Din Aibak (1206 - 1210)

• Aram Shah (1210 - 1211)
• Shams-Ud-Din Iltutmish(1211 - 1236)
• Rukn-Ud-Din Feroze(1236)
• Razia Al-Din(1236 - 1240)
• Muiz-Ud-Din Bahram(1240 - 1242)
• Nasir-Ud-Din Mahmud(1246 - 1266)
• Ghiyath-Ud-Din Balban(1266 - 1287)
• Muiz-Ud-Din Muhammad Qaiqabad(1287 – 1290)
Khilji dynasty (1290-1320)

• Jalaluddin Khalji (1290-1296 )

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• Alauddin Khalji (1296-1316)

• Shihab-Ud-Din(1316)
• Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah (1316 – 1320)
Tughlaq dynasty (1320-1414)

• Ghiyasuddin Tughluq (1320-1324 )

• Muhammad Tughluq (1324-1351 )
• Firuz Shah Tughluq (1351-1388)
Sayyid dynasty (1414-51)

• Khizr Khan (1414 – 1421)

• Mubarak Shah (1421 – 1434)
• Muhammad Shah (1434 – 1445)
• Ala-Un-Din Alam Shah (1445 – 1451)
Lodhi dynasty (1451-1526)

• Bahlul Lodi (1451 – 1489)

• Sikandar Lodi (1489 – 1517)
• Ibrahim Lodi (1489 – 1526)
Mughals (AD 1526 – AD 1857)

• Babur (1526–1530)
• Humayun (I- 1530–1540, II – 1555–1556)
• Akbar (1556–1605)
• Jahangir (1605–1627)
• Shah Jahan (1628–1658)
• Aurangzeb (1658–1707)
• Bahadur Shah II (1837–1857)

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