Indus Valley Civilization

Early Vedic Period or Rig Vedic Period

Later Vedic Period

Mahajanapada Period

Life of Vardhaman Mahavira

Life of Gautama Buddha

Alexander’s invasion of India and the opening of land route between India and Europe

Ashoka’s reign

Battle of Kalinga

Beginning of Vikrama Era

Satvahana dynasty in Deccan. Pandyan Empire in for South

Beginning of Saka era

Beginning of Gupta era

Samudragupta conquered the whole of North India and much of the Deccan

Rule of Chandragupta Vikramaditya, age of Kalidasa, renewal of Hinduism

Rule of Harshavardhana

Hieun-Tsang visited India

Mohammad Bin Qasim invaded India and conquered Sindh which became the province of Omayyad Khilafat.

Sultan Mahmud Ghazni invaded India and plundered and destroys the Somnath Temple.

Mohammad Ghori invaded India and laid the foundation of the Muslim dominion in India.

First battle of Tarain in which Prithviraj Chauhan defeated Mohammad Ghori

Second battle of Tarain in which Mohammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan

Qutubbin Aibak founded IIbari/Slave dynasty

Quilon, the 1st Indian Diocese was put up by Pope John XXII & Jordanus was appointed the 1st Bishop

Sun City, Jodhpur India founded by Rao Jodha

Vasco da Gama departs for an India trip

Vasco da Gama arrived at Calcutta India

Vasco da Gama navigated from Lisbon, Portugal on his 2nd voyage to India

The Battle of Diu takes place in Diu between Turkey and Portugal

The Battle of Diu takes place in Diu between Ottoman Empire and Portugal

The origin of Fasli Era

Battle at Talikota. Moslems destroyed Vijayanagar’s army

Mughal Emperor Akbar defeated Bengali army at Battle of Tukaroi

1st Dutch East India Company ships revisited from Far East

The charter of British East India Company

United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) formed

First English convoy lands at Surat India

Battle at Surat IndiaC

The Dutch West India Company received charter for New Netherlands

Ming dynasty fought with Dutch East India Company. Ming dynasty became victorious

Madras was founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers

United East Indian Company conquered city of Malakka

West India Company conquered Sao Paulo de Loanda

Dutch troops occupied harbor city Quilon in India

England took control of Bombay

Bombay was given to East India Company by Charles II

Job Charnock founded Calcutta

Battle of Karnal took place. Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeated Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah.

Nadir Shah occupied Delhi in India

French army surrendered to the English in Trichinopoly

Indian rebels defeated Calcutta on British army

French & Indian WarC

British troops under Robert Clive occupied Fulta India

British troops occupied Calcutta India

Battle at Rossbach took place

Battle at Wandewash. British troops beat French

Battle at Panipat. Afghan army beats Mahratten

Charles Cornwallis was appointed governor-general of India

Battle at Kurdla. Mahratten beat Mogols

England signed treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad

Battle of Assaye. British-Indian force beat Maratha Army

Aden conquered by the British East India Company

Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab

Battle of SobraonC

Battle of Sobraon. It ended first Sikh War in India

1st passenger rail opened in India. It opened from Bombay to Thane

Allahabad High Court was established

Dadabhai Naoroji was elected as 1st Indian Member of Parliament in Britain

Partition of Bengal took place

World War I took place.

Communist Party of India was founded.

First non-stop England to India flight takes-off

Establishment of Indian Air Force

Orissa constituted as the province of British India

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose formed the All India Forward Bloc.

Jessami, East-India was conquered by Japanese troops

India became independent from British Rule

Lord Mountbatten was appointed as last viceroy of India

The Radcliffe Line between India and Pakistan was revealed

Lord Mountbatten resigned as the Governor General of India

India becomes a republic

Sikkim became India’s protectorate

The Rajya Sabha held its first sitting

Delhi became a territory of Indian union

Bombay state split into Maharashtra and Gujarat

Battle of GaribpurC

India became 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb

India launched 1st satellite with help of USSR

Rohini 1, first Indian satellite, launched into orbit

Sushmita Sen of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe

Aishwarya Rai crowned 44th Miss World

India launched its 1st unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan -1

ISRO has launched maximum 20 satellites at one go

ISRO has created a history by launching 104 satellites on board, a flight of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)