history

A brief history of India

prehistory

3000-1500: Indus Valley Civilization

563 BC : Birth of Gautama Buddha

540 BC : Birth of Mahavira

327-326 BC : Attack of India by Alexander

313 BC : Coronation of Chandragupta

305 BC : personal defeat of Seleucos I before Chandragupta Maurya

273-232 BC : Ashoka's rule

261 BC : The Victory of Kalinga

145-101 BC : Area of Ellora, Chola king of Sri Lanka

58 BC: The beginning of Vikram Samvat calendar

78 AD: The beginning of the Shaka Era

120 AD : Coronation of Kanishka

320 AD : the beginning of the Gupta era, the golden age of India

380 AD : Coronation of Vikramaditya

405-411 AD : Visit of Chinese traveler Faxian

415 AD : Coronation of Kumaragupta I

455 AD : Coronation of Skandagupta

606-647: Harshavardhana's rule

712: First Arab invasion of Sindh

836: Coronation of Bhoja king of Kannauj

985: Coronation of Rajaraja Chola

998: Coronation of Sultan Mahmud

1000 – 1499

1001: First invasion of India by Mahmud Ghazni, who defeated ruler Jaipal of Punjab

1025: The demolition of Somnath temple by Mahmud Ghazni

1191 : First Battle of the Terai

1192: Second Battle of the Terai

1206: Coronation of Qutbuddin Aibak on Delhi's throne

1210: Death of Qutb al-Din Aibak

1221: Genghis Khan's attack on India (Mongol invasion)

1236: Coronation of Razia Sultan on Delhi's throne

1240: Razia Sultan's death

1296: Alauddin Khilji attack

1316: Death of Allauddin Khilji

1325: The coronation of Mohamed Tughlaq

1327: the Tughluk dynasty transfers the capital from Delhi to Dautalabad and then to the Deccan

1336: Establishment of Vijayanagara Empire in the South

1351: Coronation of Firoz Shah

1398: Attack on India by Tamerlane

1469: Birth of Guru Nanak

1494: Babur's coronation in Farghana

1497-98 : first voyage of Vasco da Gama to India

1500 – 1799

1526: First Battle of Panipat, Babar defeats Ibrahim Lodi

1527: Battle of Khanwa, Babur defeated Rana Saya

1530: Death of Babur and the coronation of Humayun

1539: Sher Shah Suri defeats Humayun and becomes the emperor of India

1540: Battle of Kannauj

1555: Humayun finally recovers the throne of Delhi

1556: Second Battle of Panipat

1565: Battle of Talikot

1576: Battle of Haldighati - Rana Pratap defeats Akbar

1582: Akbar established Din-i-Elahi

1597: Rana Pratap's death

1600: Establishment of East India Company

1605: Death of Akbar and the coronation of Jahangir

Guru Arjan Dev's martyrdom

1611: Jahangir married Nur Jahan

1627: Birth of Shivaji and Jahangir's death

1628: Shah Jahan becomes Emperor of India

1631: Mumtaz Mahal's death

1634: The British were allowed to trade in India in Bengal

1659: Aurangzeb's coronation, Shah Jahan was captured

1665: Shivaji was imprisoned by Aurangzeb

1680: Shivaji's death

1707: Death of Aurangzeb

1739: Nadir Shah's attack on India

1757: The battle of Plassey, the establishment of British rule in India by Lord Clive

1761 Panipat's Third Battle, Shah Alam II became the Emperor of India

1764: Battle of Buxar

1765: Clive was appointed the governor of the British East India company

1767-69: First Mysore War

1770: Great Famine of Bengal

1780: Birth of Maharaja Ranjit Singh

1780-84: Second Mysore War

1784: Pitts Act

1793: Permanent settlement in Bengal

1799: Fourth Mysore War - Death of Tipu Sultan

1800 – 1900

1802 : The Treaty of Bassein

1809: Treaty of Amritsar

1829: The practice of sati was banned

1830: Visit of Rajaram Mohan Roy in England, founder of Brahmo Samaj

1833: Death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy

1839: Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh

1839-42: First Afghan War

1845-46: First Anglo-Sikh War

1852: Second Anglo-Burmese War

1853: opening of the first railway line between Bombay and Thane and the first telegraph line in Calcutta

1857: First War of Independence (or Sepoy Rebellion)

1861: Birth of Rabindranath Tagore

1869: Birth of Mahatma Gandhi

1885: Establishment of Indian National Congress

1889: Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru

1891: Birth of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar

1897: Birth of Subhash Chandra Bose

From 1900 to India's independence

1904: Journey to Tibet

1905: First Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon

1906: Establishment of Muslim League

1911: the Delhi Durbar - travel of the king and the queen of England to India, Delhi becomes the capital of India

1914: The beginning of World War I

1916: Signing of Lucknow Agreement by Muslim League and Congress

1918: End of World War I

1919: Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar

1920: Beginning of Khilafat movement

1927: Boycott of Simon Commission

1928: Death of Lala Lajpat Rai (The lion of Punjab)

1929: Proposal for complete independence passed in Lahore Congress

1930: Civil Disobedience Movement Begins

April 6, 1930: Salt March by Mahatma Gandhi

1931: The Gandhi–Irwin Pact

1935: Government of India Act passed

1937: autonomy of the provinces, accession to ministerial posts for members of Congress

1942: India's "Quit India" Movement started on the arrival of the Cripps Mission

1941: Death of Rabindranath Tagore

The escape of Subhash Chandra Bose from India

Indian National Army established and famine in Bengal

1943-44: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose becomes the head of the provisional government of Free India

1945: Trial of the Indian National Army at the Red Fort

End of World War II

1946 British Cabinet Mission visit to India - Interim Government formed at the Center

History of India since the Independence of 1947

1947: Partition and independence of India

August 14, 1947 at 12 strokes of midnight, the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declares the independence of the country

1947: On August 15 the country was liberated from British subjugation

Constitution of interim government at the Center

On January 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse killed Mahatma Gandhi

1950: On January 26, India became a republic. Constitution applied

1952: First General Elections in the Country

Congress won power by winning 364 of 489 seats

prehistory

1951: The country's first five-year plan is implemented

1954: Panchsheel Agreement between India and China

1957 : second general election, beginning of the decimal system, independence of Goa

1956: Reorganization of States

1960: Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan

1962: China attacks India in October

China's second attack in November

1963: India launches the first rocket

1964: Death of Jawaharlal Nehru

Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes the Prime Minister

1965: Second war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir

1966: Lal Bahadur Shastri dies

Indira Gandhi became the first woman Prime Minister of the country

1967: The beginning of the Green Revolution

1969: Partition of Congress

The nationalization of banks

1971: war between India and Pakistan

Pakistan's stinging defeat

1972: Shimla Agreement between India and Pakistan

1973 - The princely state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka

1974: India becomes sixth nuclear power by conducting nuclear tests in Pokharan on May 18, 1974

1975: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares emergency in the country

Restriction on press freedom

Launch of India's first satellite Aryabhatt

The film Sholay breaks all box-office records

1976: start of construction of the railway line between Amritsar and Lahore (Samjhauta Express)

Cyclone in Andhra Pradesh, 35 thousand dead

1978: birth of Durga, India's first test tube baby

1979: The fall of the first non-Congress government due to a lack of experience

Creation of Bangladesh

Mother Teresa's Nobel Prize for disadvantaged and victims' help

Rajiv Gandhi's political debut

1977: After the defeat of Congress, the first non-Congress government in the country

1980: Sanjay Gandhi's unexpected death in the plane crash

1982: The beginning of colour television in the country

1983: launch of the Maruti-800

1984: Army's entry into Golden Temple for the elimination of terrorists under Operation Blue Star

The assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the hands of Sikh bodyguards

anti-Sikh Riots across the country

Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to go to space

1985: Establishment of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

1986: implementation of a new education policy after AIDS first case in Chennai

Thousands of deaths following a toxic gas leak in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal

1987: Rajiv Gandhi tainted by the arms deal with Bofors

1988: successful test of ground-to-ground ballistic missiles

1990: implementation of the Mandal Commission's recommendations

Cable and satellite television launch in the country

1991: Rajiv Gandhi's death in a suicide attack in Sriperumbudur

The beginning of economic reforms in the country

construction of the country's first supercomputer

1992: demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya

1993: Hundreds killed in Mumbai serial bombings

Operation of private airline started in India

Aishwarya Rai became Miss world

Successful flight of PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle)

1995: Mobile service starts in the country

1997: death of Mother Teresa

1998: India conducts another nuclear test

Disapproval of Western countries

1999: In the middle of the peace talks between the two countries, a new conflict in Kargil between the Indian and Pakistani armies

Three terrorists freed after hijacking of Indian Airlines plane

On December 13, 2001 terrorists attack Parliament House

2002: Communal violence in Gujarat after attack on Sabarmati Express at Godhra railway station

The beginning of the Delhi Metro

2003: crash of Space Shuttle Columbia on his return. Death of Kalpana Chawla

2004: A horrific catastrophe in the southern states of India due to the tsunami. 35 thousand deaths

2005: Thousands of people die in the earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir Millions of homeless

Earthquake in Gujarat, thousands of dead

In 2005, Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and US President George Bush signed a historic civil nuclear cooperation treaty

2008: Death of hundreds of people during a series of attacks in Mumbai

In August 2011: Anna Hazare's movement against corruption