history

A brief history of India

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

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

1952: First General Elections in the Country

Congress won power by winning 364 of 489 seats

1954: Panchsheel Agreement between India and China

1956: Reorganization of States

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

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

Creation of Bangladesh

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

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

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

Rajiv Gandhi's political debut

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

1982: The beginning of color television in the country

1983: launch of the Maruti-800

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

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

anti-Sikh Riots across the country

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

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

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

Three terrorists freed after hijacking of Indian Airlines plane

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

On December 13, 2001 terrorists attack Parliament House

Earthquake in Gujarat, thousands of dead

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

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