Chronology of Important Events in Indian History - BYJU'S Exam Prep

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Chronology of Important Events in Indian History

Year 2 Million BC to 10,00 BC 2 Million BC to 50,000 BC 50,000 BC to 40,000 BC 40,000 BC to 10,000 BC

From 10,000 BC

7000 BC Pre-Harappan Phase ? 3000

BC 2500 BC 1500 BC-1000 BC

1000BC-500BC

600 BC ? 325 BC

544 BC ? 412 BC 412 BC ? 342 BC 344BC ? 323 BC

563 BC 540 BC 518 BC 483 BC 383 BC 326 BC 250 BC

Ancient India

Event Paleolithic Period Lower Palaeolithic Middle Palaeolithic Upper Palaeolithic

The Mesolithic Age

The Neolithic age

Chalcolithic Age

Harappan Phase Early Vedic period

Later Vedic period

Mahajanapadhas

Haryanka Dynasty Shisunga Dynasty

Nanda Dynasty Birth of Gautama Buddha

Birth of Mahavira Persian Invasion 1st Buddhist council 2nd Buddhist Council Macedonian Invasion 3rd Buddhist council

Importance Fire was discovered Tools made of limestones were used. They are found in Chotanagpur plateau and

Kurnool district Hunters and Herders Microlith tools were used

Food producers Use of polished tools

Use of Copper ? first metal

Bronze age civilization, development of Urban culture

Rig Veda period Growth of 2nd Urban phase with the establishment of

Mahajanapadhas

16 kingdoms with certain republics established

Bimbisara, Ajatshatru and Udayin

Shisunga and Kalashoka

Mahapadmananda

Buddhism established

24th Tirthankara of Jainism

Darius

Rajgir

Vaishali

Direct contact between Greek and India

Pataliputra

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322 BC ? 185 BC 322 BC ? 298 BC 298 BC ? 273 BC 273 BC ? 232 BC 232 BC ? 185 BC 185 BC ? 73 BC

73 BC ? 28 BC

60 BC ? 225 AD 2nd BC

1st BC ? 4th AD

1st BC ? 1st AD

1st AD -4th AD 72 AD

3rd BC ? 3rd AD

319 AD ? 540 AD 319 ? 334 AD 335 ? 380 AD 380 ? 414 AD 415 ? 455 AD 455 ? 467 AD

550 AD ? 647 AD

543 ? 755 AD 575 - 897 AD

Mauryan Period Chandragupta Maurya

Bindusara Ashoka

Later Mauryans Sunga Dynasty Kanva dynasty

Sathavahana dynasty

Indo-Greeks The Shakas

The Parthians

The Kushans 4th Buddhist Council

Sangam age

The Gupta Age Chandragupta I Samudragupta Chandragupta II

Kumaragupta Skandagupta

Vardhana Dynasty

Chalukyas of Vatapi Pallavas of Kanchi

Political unification of India, Dhamma policy of Ashoka,

the growth of Art and architecture

Pushyamitra Sunga

Vasudeva founded the dynasty

Capital at Paithan, MH

Menander (165-145AD)

Rudradaman (130 AD ? 150 AD)

St Thomas arrived in India during the reign of Gondophernes

Kanishka (78 AD ? 101 AD)

Kashmir

Convene of Sangam Commune, Rule of Cheras,

Cholas and Pandyas

319 AD ? Gupta Age The golden age of India Development of numerous art

and literature. Nagara style of Temple

Building

Harsha (606-647 AD) Kannauj assembly and Prayag

assembly held Huan-Tsang visited Harsha's

assembly

Development of Vesera style

Structural temples in Dravida style started to develop

Medieval India

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Early Medieval Period (650 ? 1206 AD)

Year 750 ? 1150 AD 752 ? 973 AD 730 ? 1036 AD

712 AD

850 ? 1279 AD

998 ? 1030 AD 1175 ? 1206 AD

1178 ? 1192 AD

Event Rule of the Palas The Rasthrakutas

The Pratiharas First Muslim Invasion

The Cholas

First Turk invasion Second Turk invasion

Prithviraj Chauhan

Importance

Capital at Munger, Bihar

Capital at Malkhed

Ruled western India

Mahmud Bin Qasim invaded India

Capital at Tanjore, epitome moment for Dravidian Architecture

Mahmud of Ghazni

Mahmud of Ghori

First battle of Tarain in 1191 between Prithviraj and Mahmud of Ghori

1192, Second battle of Tarain

The Sultanate Period (1206 ? 1526 AD)

Year 1206 ? 1210 AD

1211 ? 1236 AD 1236 ? 1240 AD 1240 ? 1266 AD 1266 ? 1287 AD

The Slave Dynasty Event

Qutbuddin Aibak

Shamsuddin Iltumish

Razia Sultana Weak successors Ghiyasuddin Balban

Importance Known as Lal Bakhsh, began

the construction of Qutb Minar

Real founder of Delhi Sultanate

First and only muslim lady who ever ruled India

Established Diwan-i-Arz

Year 1290 ? 1296 AD

1296 ? 1316 AD

The Khalji Dynasty Events

Jalaluddin Khalji

Allaudin Khalji

Importance

Founder of Khalji dynasty

Did many administrative reforms, introduced the Dagh

and Chehra system

The Tuglaq dynasty

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Year 1320 ? 1325 AD 1325 ? 1351 AD 1351 ? 1388 AD

1398 ? 1399 AD

Events Ghiyasuddin Tuglaq Mohammed-Bin-Tuglaq Firoz Shah Tuglaq

Taimur Invasion

Importance

Founder

Introduction of administrative reforms and certain ambitious

projects

Built great cities

Taimur, the descendant of Chengiz Khan, invaded during the reign of Muhammad Shah

Tuglaq

The Sayyid dynasty 1414 ? 1451 AD

Year 1451 ? 1488 AD 1489 ? 1517 AD

1517 ? 1526 AD

The Lodhi Dynasty (1451 ? 1526 AD)

Events

Importance

Bahlol Lodhi

Founder of Lodhi dynasty

Sikander Lodhi

Founded the city of Agra

Ibrahim Lodhi

Babur defeated Lodhi in the first battle of Panipat

Year 1336 ? 1485 AD 1485 ? 1505 AD 1505 ? 1570 AD 1509 ? 1529 AD 1570 ? 1650 AD

Vijaynagar and Bahmani Kingdoms

Vijaynagar Kingdom Events

Sangama Dynasty Saluva Dynasty Tuluva Dynasty

Krishna Deva Raya Aravidu Dynasty

Importance

Founded by Harihara and Bukka

Saluva Narasgima Veer Narashima

A gifted Scholar, contemporary of Babur

Founded by Tirumala

Year 1347 ? 1358 AD 1397 ? 1422 AD 1422 ? 1435 AD

Bahmani Kingdom Events

Alaudin Hasan Bahman Shah Tajuddin Firoz Shah Ahmad Shah Wali

Mughal Empire

Importance

Founded the Bahmani Kingdom at Gulbarga

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1526 ? 1530 AD 1530 ? 1540 AD 1555 ? 1556 AD 1540 ? 1555 AD

1556 1556 ? 1605 AD

1605 ? 1627 AD

1628 -1658 AD

1658 ? 1707 AD

1707 ? 1857 AD

Babur Humayun Sur Empire 2nd Battle of Panipat

Akbar Jehangir Shahjahan Aurangazeb

Later Mughals

Founder of Mughal empire after the 1st Battle of Panipat

He was defeated by Sher Shah

Sher Shah defeated Humayun and ruled from 1540-45 AD

Akbar Vs. Hemu

Established Din-i-illahi, expanded Mughal empire

Captain William Hawkins and Sir Thomas Roe visited the Mughal court

The pinnacle of Mughal empire and art and architecture

Beginning of the decline of Mughal empire

Decline and disintegration of Mughal empire with gaining strength of the

British

Year

1674 ? 1680 AD

1680 ? 1689 AD 1689 ? 1700 AD 1700 ? 1707 AD 1707 ? 1749 AD 1713 ? 1720 AD

Maratha State and Maratha Confederacy

Maratha state 1674 ? 1720 AD

Events

Importance

Shivaji

Contemporary of Aurangazeb and the biggest challenge for the Mughals in Deccan

Sambhaji

Rajaram

Tarabai

Shahu

The rise of Peshwas

Balaji Vishwanath

The first Peshwa

Maratha Confederacy 1720 ? 1818 AD

1720 ? 1740 AD

Baji Rao I

1740 ? 1761 AD

Balaji Baji Rao

1761 AD

Third battle of Panipat

Defeat of Marathas by Ahmad Shah Abdali

1761 ? 1818 AD

Later successors

Anglo Maratha Wars

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1775 ? 1782 AD 1803 ? 1806 AD

1817 ? 1818 AD

Year 1717 ? 1727 AD 1727 ? 1739 AD 1739 ? 1740 AD 1740 ? 1756 AD 1756 ? 1757 AD 1757 ? 1760 AD 1760 ? 1764 AD

Year 1761 ? 1782 AD 1766 ? 1769 AD 1780 ? 1784 AD 1782 ? 1799 AD 1790 ? 1792 AD

1799

1792 ? 1839 AD 1845 ? 1846 AD 1848 ? 1849 AD

1st Anglo Maratha War

2nd War

3rd War

Modern India Bengal Events

Murshid Quli Khan Shujauddin

Sarfaraj khan Alivardi Khan Sirajuddaulah

Mir Jafar Mir Qasim

British were defeated Marathas were defeated and they signed the Subsidiary

Alliance Marathas were decisively

defeated

Importance Capital of Bengal transferred

to Murshidabad

Battle of Plassey

Battle of Buxar

Mysore Events

Haider Ali 1st Anglo ? Mysore war 2nd Anglo ? Mysore war

Tippu Sultan 3rd Anglo ? Mysore war 4th Anglo ? Mysore war

Importance

Establishment of Modern Mysore state

Haider ali defeated the British Haider ali was defeated by Sir

Eyrecoot Continued the 2nd war

Tipu ceded half of his territory Tipu sultan died

Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh

1st Anglo ? Sikh war 2nd Anglo ? Sikh war

Founder of Sikh rule Sikhs were defeated Dalhousie annexed Punjab

Advent of Europeans in India

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1498 1600 1602 1616 1664

1746-48 1749-54 1758-63

1857 1885 1885 ? 1905

1905 ? 1917 1905

1905 ? 1908 1906 1906 1907 1909

1915 ? 1916 1916 1916

Portuguese East India company

English East India company Dutch East India company Danish East India company French East India company

Headquarters at Cochin and Goa

Madras, Calcutta and Bombay Pulicat, Nagapattinam Serampore Pondicherry

Carnatic wars

1st Anglo-French war 2nd Anglo-French war 3rd Anglo-French war

Treaty of Aix-la-chapelle Treaty of Pondicherry Treaty of Paris

Freedom Struggle First war of Indian

independence Formation of Congress

Moderate phase

Extremists Phase

Bengal Partition Swadeshi movement Muslim league formation Calcutta Session of INC

Surat split

Morley ? Minto reforms Home rule movement

Lucknow pact

Lucknow session

Revolt due to socio-religious and economic causes A O Hume Dominated by Dadabai Naoroji, Surendranath Banerjea

Dominated by Lal-Bal-Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh

Curzon announced the partition

Boycott of foreign products

Swaraj as the goal

Question on extending the movement to the rest of India

Separate electorate for Muslims

BG Tilak and Annie Besant

Pact between Congress and League

Extremists admitted in Congress

Gandhian Era

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