Historical events of India

 Historical events of India

Historical events of India

2350-1750 BC Period of Indus Valley Civilization

1500-600 BC Vedic period

563-433 BC Period of Buddha

540-468 BC Period of Mahavira

544-492 BC Reign of Bimbisara (Haryakka dynasty)

326 BC Alexander invades India

322 BC Chandragupta Maurya becomes ruler

261 BC Ashoka's conquest of Kalinga

57 BC Establishment of Vikram Samvat

78 AD. Beginning of Shak Samvat

606-647 AD. Reign of Harshvardhan

712 AD. Arabs attack on Singh

1001-1025 AD. Mahmud Ghazni attacks India 17 times, Alberuni arrives in India

1191 AD. First Battle of Tarain, Ghori defeated by Prithviraj Chauhan

1192 AD. Second Battle of Tarain, Muhammad Ghori's victory over Prithviraj Chauhan

1194 AD. Battle of Chandawar, Garhwal ruler Jaichand defeated by Ghori

1757 AD. Battle of Plassey

1764 AD. Battle of Buxar

1772 AD. Warren Hastings appointed as Governor of Bengal

1773 AD. Regulating Act passed

1784 AD. Pitts India Act passed

1793 AD. Permanent settlement of land revenue Implemented

1799 AD. Death of Tipu Sultan

1806 AD. British take control of Delhi

1809 AD. Treaty of Amritsar between British and Ranjit Singh

1829 AD. End of Sati Pratha

1633 AD. Governor-General of Bengal becomes Governor-General of India

1839 AD. Construction of GT Road from Calcutta to Delhi begins

1843 AD. British rule over Singh

1853 AD. Railway starts in India

1854 AD. Woods Dispatch of Education

1857 AD. Famous revolt against the British. Establishment of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta Universities

1860 AD. Beginning of budget system in India

1865 AD. First 'marine telegraph service' starts between India and Europe

1893 AD. Swami Vivekananda's speech at the Chicago World's Religion Parliament

1896 1905 AD: Congress accepts the principle of 'drain of wealth'

1906 AD: Partition of Bengal

1909 AD: Muslim League established

1910 AD: Morley-Minto Reforms: Separate electorate for Muslims

1208 AD: Establishment of Delhi Sultanate by Qutubuddin Aibak

1210 AD: Ityutmish becomes the ruler of Delhi Sultanate

1236 AD: Razia Sultan becomes the ruler

1241: First Mongol invasion during Ibrahim Shah's time

1326-27 AD: Change of capital from Delhi to Daulatabad by Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

1333 AD: Arrival of Ibn Batuta, a traveller from Bhorakko, in India

1336: Establishment of Vijayanagara state

1506 AD: Sikandar Lodi transfers capital from Delhi to Agra

1526 AD: First battle of Panipat: Babur Ibrahim Lodi defeated by

1533 A.D. Humayun built the city of Dinpanah in Delhi.

1579 Akbar declares Mahzar

1608 A.D. William Hawkins arrives in Jahangir's court

1027 A.D. Shivaji is born in Shivner fort

1699 A.D. Guru Govind Singh establishes Khalsa sect

1707 A.D. Aurangzeb dies

1717 A.D. Farrukhsiyar issues decree of free trade to East India Company

1913 Gadar Party established, Rabindranath Tagore awarded Nobel Prize for Gitanjali

1914 A.D. First World War begins

1915 A.D. Mahatma Gandhi arrives in India from South Africa

1916 A.D. Home Rule League established, Lucknow Pact between Congress and League

1917 A.D. Gandhiji's Champaran Satyagraha

1919 A.D. Rowlatt Act passed, Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

1920 A.D. Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement started

1922 A.D. Chauri-Chaura incident, withdrawal of Non-Cooperation Movement

1924 A.D. Hindustan Republican Army established, Gandhiji became Congress President only once

1928 A.D. Simon Commission arrives in India, Hindustan Socialist Republican Army established

1929. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bomb in Central Assembly, Lahore session of Congress

1930 A.D. Gandhiji's Dandi March, First Round Table Conference, Civil Disobedience Movement started

1931 A.D. Poona Pact, Third Round Table Conference, Communal Award, between Gandhiji and Ambedkar

1932 A.D. Second Round Table Conference, Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Bhagat Singh hanged

1933 A.D. Gandhiji started publishing a magazine named 'Harijan'

1934 1935 AD: Formation of Congress Socialist Party

1937 AD: Government of India Act passed

1948 AD: Provincial elections, establishment of Federal Court

1950 AD: Assassination of Gandhiji

1953 AD: Indian Constitution implemented

1954 AD: Formation of Andhra Pradesh on linguistic basis

1954 AD: Principle of non-alignment presented

1964 AD: Death of Jawaharlal Nehru