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    Indian History Time Line – Notes For W.B.C.S. Examination.

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    The following table illustrates the major events and respective timelines of India.Continue Reading Indian History Time Line – Notes For W.B.C.S. Examination.

    Time Events
    9000 BCE Period of early Neolithic culture
    9000 BCE Bhimbetka rock shelters (found in Madhya Pradesh region); also evidenced some of the Stone Age rock paintings
    7000 to 2500 BCE Mehergarh Culture (Neolithic Age)
    3300 to 1700 BCE Phase of Indus Valley Civilization
    1800 BCE Indo-Aryan migration
    1500 to 1000 BCE Early Vedic Period
    1300 BCE End of Cemetery H culture
    1200 BCE Rigveda Period
    1000 to 500 BCE Late Vedic period
    1000 BCE Iron Age of India
    877 BCE Birth of Parsvanatha (23rd Jain Tirthankara)
    700 BCE Age of Upanishads
    600 BCE Period of Sixteen Maha Janapadas
    599 BCE Birth of Mahavira (24th Tirthankar of Jainism)
    563 BCE Birth of Siddhārtha Gautama (Buddha)
    558–491 BCE Bimbisara (also known as Srenika) founded Haryanka dynasty
    527 BCE Nirvana of Mahavira
    492–460 BCE Period of Ajatshatru (son of Bimbisara)
    483 BCE Mahaparinirvana of Gautama Buddha
    350 BCE Panini (a resident of Gandhara) had written Ashtadhyayi(Sanskrit Grammar book)
    326 BCE Battle of the Hydaspes River between Porus and Alexander
    321 BCE Chandragupta Maurya established Mauryan Empire in Magadha
    305 BCE Chandragupta Maurya defeated Seleucus Nicator
    300 BCE Chola dynasty (in south India)
    297–273 BCE Period of Bindusara (son of Chandragupta Maurya)
    268–232 BCE Period of the Great Ashoka (son of Bindusara)
    265 BCE Kalinga War (between Ashoka and the kingdom of Kalinga)
    260 BCE Ashoka inscribed the Edicts of Ashoka (written in Brahmi script)
    251 BCE Mahinda (son of Ashoka) introduced Buddhism to Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
    250 BCE The followers of Buddhists carved the first cave temples (namely Lomas Rishi)
    232 BCE Ashoka died (Kunala, his son, succeeded)
    184 BCE After the assassination of Brihadrata (by his general Pushyamitra shunga), Mauryan empire collapsed
    184 BCE Establishement of the Shunga dynasty by Pushyamitra Shunga
    78 BCE Beginning of Saka era
    57 BCE Beginning of Vikram Era
    Common Era (CE)
    10 CE The Indo-Parthian kingdom established
    240 CE Sri-Gupta established the Gupta Empire in Magadha (and its capital was in Pataliputra)
    275 CE Pallava dynasty established
    320 CE Chandragupta I became the king of Gupta empire
    335 CE Samudragupta became the king of Gupta empire
    380 CE Chandragupta II (son of Samudragupta) became the Gupta Emperor
    405 CE Fahien, the Chinese traveler came India
    450 CE Huna invasions
    554 CE After the death of skandagupta, Gupta empire collapsed
    606 CE Harshavardhana became the kind
    629 CE Chinese monk Huang Tsang (Xuanzang) came to India
    753 CE After defeating Chalukyas of Badami, Danti Durga established Rashtrakuta Kingdom
    788 CE Birth of Adi Shankaracharya
    1001 CE Invasion of Mahmud Ghazni
    1025 CE Last invasion of Mahmud Ghazni that lead to destruction of temple of Somnath
    1030 CE Death of Mahmud of Ghazni
    1030 CE Alberuni came India
    1191 CE First battle of Tarain between Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj III (Ghauri was defeated)
    1192 CE Second battle of Tarain between Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj III (Prithviraj was defeated)
    1154 CE Battle of Chandawar fought between Ghauri and Jaichand of Kannauj (Ghauri defeated Jayachandra and killed)
    1192 CE Qutb al-Din Aybak constructed the Qutub Minar in Delhi
    1206 CE Qutb-ud-din Aibak established ‘Slave Dynasty’ (which later came to known as Delhi Sultanate)
    1210 CE While playing polo, Qutb-ud-din Aibak died
    1221 CE Invasion of Changez Khan (Mongol invasion)
    1240 CE Razia Sultan was killed by Turkish nobles
    1336 CE Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I founded the Vijayanagara Empire
    1398 CE Timur’s invasion
    1483 CE Babur born
    1498 CE The first voyage of Vasco de Gama from Europe to India
    1526 CE The first Battle of Panipat in which Mughal ruler Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi
    1530 CE Babur died and his son Humayun became the emperor
    1539 CE Battle of Chausa fought between Mughal emperor Humayun and Sher Shah Suri (Humayun defeated)
    1540 CE Battle of Kannauj fought between Humayun and Sher Shah Suri and Humayun. Humayun lost the Mughal empire and hence escaped from India
    1545 CE Sher Shah Suri died and his son Islam Shah Suri succeeded
    1554 CE Islam Shah Suri died
    1555 CE Humayun recuperated the throne of Delhi
    1556 CE Humayun died and Akbar (his 12-year-old son) succeeded
    1556 CE Second Battle of Panipat fought between Hemu and Akbar’s forces (Hemu was defeated and killed)
    1576 CE Battle of Haldighati fought between Rana Pratap and Akbar (Akbar defeated Rana Pratap)
    1600 CE East India company is formed (in England) resultantly received exclusive trading rights with India
    1605 CE Akbar died and his son Jahangir succeeded
    1628 CE Jehangir died and his son Shah Jahan succeeded
    1627 CE Birth of Chatrapati Shivaji
    1658 CE Aurangzeb became the Mughal emperor
    1666 CE Shah Jahan died
    1674 CE Shivaji defeated Mughal emperor’s troops and established Maratha empire
    1680 CE Death of Shivaji
    1707 CE Death of Aurangzeb
    1739 CE Invasion of Nadir Shah
    1756 CE Black Hole of Calcutta incident
    1760 CE Battle at Wandewash (British troops defeated French)
    1761 CE Third Battle of Panipat fought between Maratha and Afghans (led by Ahmad Shah); Marathas were defeated
    1767 CE First Anglo-Mysore War (Haidar Ali of Mysore defeated the combined armies of the East India Company)
    1772 CE Birth of Ram Mohan Roy
    1773 CE Warren Hastings appointed as first Governor-General of India
    1799 CE Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (Tipu Sultan died in the war)
    1806 CE Vellore Mutiny
    1814 Raja Ram Mohan Roy established “Atmiya Sabha”
    1820 CE Birth of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
    1824 CE Birth of Dayananda Saraswati
    1836 CE Birth of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
    1853 CE Started Postal Service in India
    1853 CE First Rail run between Bombay and Thane
    1855 CE Santhal rebellion
    1856 CE Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act
    1856 CE Birth of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    1857 CE Sepoy Mutiny
    1861 CE Birth of Rabindranath Tagore
    1863 CE Birth of Swami Vivekanand
    1865 CE Birth of Lala Lajpat Rai
    1869 CE Birth of Mahatma Gandhi
    1873 CE Satyashodhak Samaj was established by Jyotirao Phule
    1875 CE Arya Samaj was established
    1877 CE First time Delhi Durbar organized
    1885 CE Indian National Congress was founded
    1899 CE V.D.Savarkar organized ‘Mithra Mela’
    1902 CE Anushilan Samiti was organized
    1905 CE Partition of Bengal
    1906 CE Muslim League formed in Dacca
    1907 CE Congress Session at Surat (Congress divided as Moderate and Extremists)
    1908 CE Alipore bomb case
    1909 CE Morley-Minto Reforms
    1911 CE Cancellation of Partition of Bengal
    1911 CE British government moved capital city from Calcutta to Delhi
    1912 CE Delhi conspiracy case
    1913 CE Formation of Gadar Party
    1914 CE Hindu–German Conspiracy
    1916 CE Lucknow Pact
    1917 CE Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha
    1919 CE Jallianwala Bagh massacre
    1919 CE Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms
    1919 CE Rowlatt Act
    1920 CE Non-cooperation movement (Khilafat Movement)
    1922 CE Chauri Chaura incident
    1924 CE Formation of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
    1925 CE Kakori conspiracy
    1927 CE Simon Commission
    1928 CE Bardoli Satyagraha
    1929 CE Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt bombed on Central Assembly
    1929 CE Resolution of Purna Swaraj
    1930 CE Salt Satyagraha (Dandi March)
    1930 CE First Round Table Conferences
    1931 CE Gandhi–Irwin Pact
    1931 CE Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev martyred
    1931 CE Second Round Table Conferences
    1932 CE Poona Pact
    1932 CE Communal Award
    1932 CE Third Round Table Conferences
    1935 CE Government of India Act 1935
    1937 CE Indian provincial elections
    1939 CE Subhas Chandra Bose established ‘All India Forward Bloc’
    1940 CE Lahore Resolution
    1940 CE August offer (1940)
    1942 CE Cripps’ Mission
    1942 CE Quit India Movement
    1942 CE Subhas Chandra Bose established Indian National Army
    1944 CE Subhas Chandra Bose named Mahatma Gandhi as the ‘Father of the Nation’
    1945 CE Wavell Plan (Simla Conference)
    1946 CE Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
    1946 CE Cabinet Mission
    1946 CE Great Calcutta Killings
    1947 CE Indian Independence Act 1947
    1947 CE Partition of India and Pakistan (both became independent nations)
    1948 CE Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse
    1948 CE India-Pakistan war
    1950 CE Indian became Republic (of India)
    1951 CE Congress Party won first general election
    1962 CE India won Diu, Daman, and Goa from Portuguese
    1964 CE Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
    1965 CE Second Pakistan-India war
    1966 CE Indira Gandhi (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru) becomes prime minister
    1971 CE Third Pakistan-India war
    1974 CE India exploded first nuclear device (in underground test)
    1975 CE Indira Gandhi declared state of emergency
    1975 CE Birth control introduced
    1977 CE Janata Party came into power (Congress party lost the election)
    1979 CE Janta Party split
    1980 CE Congress again came into power
    1984 CE Operation Blue Star (Anti-Sikh Riots 1984)
    1984 CE Indira Gandhi was assassinated
    1988 CE SEBI (Security and Exchange Board of India) was established by The Government of India
    1991 CE Rajiv Gandhi assassinated
    1991 CE Economic reform program (liberalization)
    1992 CE Babri Mosque in Ayodhya is demolished
    1992 CE 1992 Odisha liquor deaths incident
    1996 CE Amarnath Yatra tragedy
    1998 CE BJP forms coalition government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    2000 CE US President Bill Clinton’s India visit
    2001 CE Massive earthquakes in Gujarat
    2001 CE Suicide squad attacked parliament in New Delhi
    2002 CE Godhra (Gujarat) incident
    2003 CE Bomb blasts in Mumbai
    2004 CE Tsunami incident
    2005 CE Earthquake in Kashmir
    2007 CE India’s first commercial space rocket is launched (carried Italian satellite)
    2008 CE Series of bomb explosions in Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
    2008 CE Attack on two hotels namely the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower and the Oberoi Trident (Mumbai)
    2009 CE India and Russia signed Uranium deal worth of $700 million
    2012 CE Ajmal Kasab the sole surviving gunman of 2008 Mumbai attacks was hanged
    2013 CE Mars Orbiter Mission, is successfully launched into the Orbit of Mars by ISRO (the Indian Space Research Organization)
    2014 CE Congress was routed in the general elections and Narendra Modi (BJP) elected as the Prime Minister
    2016 CE Terror Attacks on Pathankot Air Base
    2016 CE India becomes member of Missile Technology Control Regime

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