Historical Events of BC (Before Christ)
➢ 2500-1800: Indus Valley Civilization
➢ 1500-1000: Early Vedic Period or Rig Vedic Period
➢ 1000-600: Later Vedic Period
➢ 600-325: Mahajanapada 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 (AD)
➢ 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
➢ 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 Calcutta 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
➢ 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)