Historical Events of BC (Before Christ)
2500-1800: Indus Valley Civilization
1500-1000: Early Vedic Period or Rig Vedic Period
1000-600: Later Vedic Period
600-325: Mahajanapada Period
539- 467: Life of Vardhaman Mahavira
567-487: Life of Gautama Buddha
327-26: Alexander’s invasion of India and the opening of land route between India and Europe
269-232: Ashoka’s reign
261: Battle of Kalinga
57: Beginning of Vikrama Era
30: Satvahana dynasty in Deccan. Pandyan Empire in for South
78: Beginning of Saka era
320: Beginning of Gupta era
360: Samudragupta conquered the whole of North India and much of the Deccan
380-413: Rule of Chandragupta Vikramaditya, age of Kalidasa, renewal of Hinduism
606-647: Rule of Harshavardhana
629-645: Hieun-Tsang visited India
Foreign Invasion and Wars during Early Medieval India (AD)
712: Mohammad Bin Qasim invaded India and conquered Sindh which became the province of Omayyad Khilafat.
1025: Sultan Mahmud Ghazni invaded India and plundered and destroys the Somnath Temple.
1175-1206: Mohammad Ghori invaded India and laid the foundation of the Muslim dominion in India.
1191: First battle of Tarain in which Prithviraj Chauhan defeated Mohammad Ghori
1192: Second battle of Tarain in which Mohammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan
Historical Events from Medieval to Modern India (AD)
1206: Qutubbin Aibak founded IIbari/Slave dynasty
1329: Quilon, the 1st Indian Diocese was put up by Pope John XXII & Jordanus was appointed the 1st Bishop
1459: Sun City, Jodhpur India founded by Rao Jodha
1497: Vasco da Gama departs for an India trip
1498: Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut, India
1502: Vasco da Gama navigated from Lisbon, Portugal on his 2nd voyage to India
1509: The Battle of Diu takes place in Diu between Turkey and Portugal
1509: The Battle of Diu takes place in Diu between Ottoman Empire and Portugal
1556: The origin of Fasli Era
1565: Battle at Talikota. Moslems destroyed Vijayanagar’s army
1575: Mughal Emperor Akbar defeated Bengali army at Battle of Tukaroi
1597: 1st Dutch East India Company ships revisited from Far East
1600: The charter of British East India Company
1602: United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) formed
1608: First English convoy lands at Surat India
1612: Battle at Surat India: English fleet beat Portuguese
1621: The Dutch West India Company received charter for New Netherlands
1633: Ming dynasty fought with Dutch East India Company. Ming dynasty became victorious
1639: Madras was founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers
1641: United East Indian Company conquered city of Malakka
1641: West India Company conquered Sao Paulo de Loanda
1658: Dutch troops occupied harbor city Quilon in India
1668: England took control of Bombay
1668: Bombay was given to East India Company by Charles II
1690: Job Charnock founded Calcutta
1739: Battle of Karnal took place. Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeated Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah.
1739: Nadir Shah occupied Delhi in India
1752: French army surrendered to the English in Trichinopoly
1756: Indian rebels defeated Calcutta on British army
1756: French & Indian War: Kittanning Expedition
1756: British troops under Robert Clive occupied Fulta India
1757: British troops occupied Calcutta India
1757: Battle at Rossbach took place
1760: Battle at Wandewash. British troops beat French
1761: Battle at Panipat. Afghan army beats Mahratten
1786: Charles Cornwallis was appointed governor-general of India
1795: Battle at Kurdla. Mahratten beat Mogols
1798: England signed treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad
1803: Battle of Assaye. British-Indian force beat Maratha Army
1839: Aden conquered by the British East India Company
1846: Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab
1846: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs
1846: Battle of Sobraon. It ended first Sikh War in India
1853: 1st passenger rail opened in India. It opened from Bombay to Thane
1866: Allahabad High Court was established
1892: Dadabhai Naoroji was elected as 1st Indian Member of Parliament in Britain
1905: Partition of Bengal took place
1917: World War I took place.
1925: Communist Party of India was founded.
1929: First non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1932: Establishment of Indian Air Force
1936: Orissa constituted as the province of British India
1939: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose formed the All India Forward Bloc.
1944: Jessami, East-India was conquered by Japanese troops
1947: India became independent from British Rule
1947: Lord Mountbatten was appointed as last viceroy of India
1947: The Radcliffe Line between India and Pakistan was revealed
1948: Lord Mountbatten resigned as the Governor General of India
India after Indepence (AD)
1950: India becomes a republic
1950: Sikkim became India’s protectorate
1952: The Rajya Sabha held its first sitting
1956: Delhi became a territory of Indian union
1960: Bombay state split into Maharashtra and Gujarat
1971: Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops defeated Pakistan army
1974: India became 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1975: India launched 1st satellite with help of USSR
1980: Rohini 1, first Indian satellite, launched into orbit
1994: Sushmita Sen of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
1994: Aishwarya Rai crowned 44th Miss World
2008: India launched its 1st unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan -1
June 22, 2016: ISRO has launched maximum 20 satellites at one go
15 February 2017: ISRO has created a history by launching 104 satellites on board, a flight of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)
