HESTORIC EVENTS

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Historical Events of BC (Before Christ)

2500-1800Indus Valley Civilization

1500-1000: Early Vedic Period or Rig Vedic Period

1000-600Later Vedic Period

600-325Mahajanapada 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

 

Historical Events of Early Medieval India (Anno Domini and After Christ)

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)