Time | Events |
9000 BCE | Period of early Neolithic culture |
9000 BCE | Bhimbetka rock shelters foundinMadhyaPradeshregion; also evidenced some of the Stone Age rock paintings |
7000 to 2500 BCE | Mehergarh Culture NeolithicAge |
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 23rdJainTirthankara |
700 BCE | Age of Upanishads |
600 BCE | Period of Sixteen Maha Janapadas |
599 BCE | Birth of Mahavira 24thTirthankarofJainism |
563 BCE | Birth of Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha |
558–491 BCE | Bimbisara alsoknownasSrenika founded Haryanka dynasty |
527 BCE | Nirvana of Mahavira |
492–460 BCE | Period of Ajatshatru sonofBimbisara |
483 BCE | Mahaparinirvana of Gautama Buddha |
350 BCE | Panini aresidentofGandhara had written Ashtadhyayi SanskritGrammarbook |
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 insouthIndia |
297–273 BCE | Period of Bindusara sonofChandraguptaMaurya |
268–232 BCE | Period of the Great Ashoka sonofBindusara |
265 BCE | Kalinga War betweenAshokaandthekingdomofKalinga |
260 BCE | Ashoka inscribed the Edicts of Ashoka writteninBrahmiscript |
251 BCE | Mahinda sonofAshoka introduced Buddhism to Ceylon SriLanka |
250 BCE | The followers of Buddhists carved the first cave temples namelyLomasRishi |
232 BCE | Ashoka died Kunala,hisson,succeeded |
184 BCE | After the assassination of Brihadrata byhisgeneralPushyamitrashunga, 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 anditscapitalwasinPataliputra |
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 sonofSamudragupta 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 Ghauriwasdefeated |
1192 CE | Second battle of Tarain between Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj III Prithvirajwasdefeated |
1154 CE | Battle of Chandawar fought between Ghauri and Jaichand of Kannauj GhauridefeatedJayachandraandkilled |
1192 CE | Qutb al-Din Aybak constructed the Qutub Minar in Delhi |
1206 CE | Qutb-ud-din Aibak established ‘Slave Dynasty’ whichlatercametoknownasDelhiSultanate |
1210 CE | While playing polo, Qutb-ud-din Aibak died |
1221 CE | Invasion of Changez Khan Mongolinvasion |
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 Humayundefeated |
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 his12−year−oldson succeeded |
1556 CE | Second Battle of Panipat fought between Hemu and Akbar's forces Hemuwasdefeatedandkilled |
1576 CE | Battle of Haldighati fought between Rana Pratap and Akbar AkbardefeatedRanaPratap |
1600 CE | East India company is formed inEngland 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 BritishtroopsdefeatedFrench |
1761 CE | Third Battle of Panipat fought between Maratha and Afghans ledbyAhmadShah; Marathas were defeated |
1767 CE | First Anglo-Mysore War HaidarAliofMysoredefeatedthecombinedarmiesoftheEastIndiaCompany |
1772 CE | Birth of Ram Mohan Roy |
1773 CE | Warren Hastings appointed as first Governor-General of India |
1799 CE | Fourth Anglo-Mysore War TipuSultandiedinthewar |
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 CongressdividedasModerateandExtremists |
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 KhilafatMovement |
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 DandiMarch |
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 SimlaConference |
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 bothbecameindependentnations |
1948 CE | Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse |
1948 CE | India-Pakistan war |
1950 CE | Indian became Republic ofIndia |
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 daughterofJawaharlalNehru becomes prime minister |
1971 CE | Third Pakistan-India war |
1974 CE | India exploded first nuclear device inundergroundtest |
1975 CE | Indira Gandhi declared state of emergency |
1975 CE | Birth control introduced |
1977 CE | Janata Party came into power Congresspartylosttheelection |
1979 CE | Janta Party split |
1980 CE | Congress again came into power |
1984 CE | Operation Blue Star Anti−SikhRiots1984 |
1984 CE | Indira Gandhi was assassinated |
1988 CE | SEBI SecurityandExchangeBoardofIndia 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 carriedItaliansatellite |
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 theIndianSpaceResearchOrganization |
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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