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Historical Timeline

155 events from 2500 BCE to 1991 CE to 1991 CE

155 events

Ancient IndiaMauryanGuptaMedievalSultanateVijayanagaraWorld HistoryModernMughalNational Movement

2500 BCEAncient India

Indus Valley Civilization (Mature Phase)

1500 BCEAncient India

Aryan Migration & Rig Veda

1000 BCEAncient India

Later Vedic Age Begins

600 BCEAncient India

Rise of 16 Mahajanapadas

599 BCEAncient India

Birth of Mahavira

563 BCEAncient India

Birth of Gautama Buddha

327 BCEAncient India

Alexander's Invasion of India

321 BCEMauryan

Chandragupta Maurya Founds Maurya Empire

305 BCEMauryan

Chandragupta Defeats Seleucus Nicator

269 BCEMauryan

Ashoka Ascends the Throne

261 BCEMauryan

Kalinga War

185 BCEMauryan

Fall of Maurya Empire

180 BCEAncient India

Indo-Greek Kingdoms in Northwest India

78 CEAncient India

Kanishka's Accession & Saka Era

320 CEGupta

Gupta Empire Founded

335 CEGupta

Samudragupta's Reign

375 CEGupta

Chandragupta II (Vikramaditya)

455 CEGupta

First Huna Invasion

606 CEAncient India

Harsha's Reign

711 CEMedieval

Arab Conquest of Sindh

750 CEMedieval

Rise of Pala Dynasty

753 CEMedieval

Rashtrakuta Dynasty Founded

985 CEMedieval

Rajaraja Chola I

1000 CESultanate

Mahmud of Ghazni — First Raid

1025 CESultanate

Mahmud Sacks Somnath Temple

1192 CESultanate

Second Battle of Tarain

1206 CESultanate

Delhi Sultanate Established

1221 CESultanate

Mongol Invasion (Genghis Khan)

1236 CESultanate

Reign of Razia Sultana

1290 CESultanate

Khalji Dynasty Begins

1296 CESultanate

Alauddin Khalji's Reign

1320 CESultanate

Tughlaq Dynasty Begins

1325 CESultanate

Muhammad bin Tughlaq's Reign

1336 CEVijayanagara

Vijayanagara Empire Founded

1347 CESultanate

Bahmani Sultanate Founded

1351 CESultanate

Firuz Shah Tughlaq Reign

1398 CESultanate

Timur's Invasion

1451 CESultanate

Lodi Dynasty Begins

1453 CEWorld History

Fall of Constantinople

1492 CEWorld History

Columbus Reaches Americas

1498 CEModern

Vasco da Gama Arrives at Calicut

1517 CEWorld History

Luther's 95 Theses — Protestant Reformation

1526 CEMughal

First Battle of Panipat

1527 CEMughal

Battle of Khanwa

1539 CEMughal

Battle of Chausa — Sher Shah Suri

1543 CEWorld History

Copernicus — Heliocentric Theory

1555 CEMughal

Humayun Recaptures Delhi

1556 CEMughal

Second Battle of Panipat — Akbar

1564 CEMughal

Akbar Abolishes Jizya

1576 CEMughal

Battle of Haldighati

1580 CEMughal

Akbar's Din-i-Ilahi

1588 CEWorld History

Defeat of Spanish Armada

1600 CEModern

East India Company Founded

1605 CEMughal

Jahangir Ascends Mughal Throne

1618 CEWorld History

Thirty Years War Begins

1628 CEMughal

Shah Jahan Ascends Mughal Throne

1658 CEMughal

Aurangzeb Becomes Emperor

1664 CEMughal

Shivaji Sacks Surat — Maratha Rise

1674 CEMughal

Shivaji Crowned Chhatrapati

1688 CEWorld History

Glorious Revolution — England

1707 CEMughal

Aurangzeb Dies — Mughal Decline

1739 CEModern

Nadir Shah's Invasion

1757 CEModern

Battle of Plassey

1761 CEModern

Third Battle of Panipat

1764 CEModern

Battle of Buxar

1765 CEModern

Diwani Rights Granted

1773 CEModern

Regulating Act

1776 CEWorld History

American Declaration of Independence

1784 CEModern

Pitt's India Act

1789 CEWorld History

French Revolution

1793 CEModern

Permanent Settlement of Bengal

1799 CEModern

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War — Tipu Sultan Killed

1804 CEWorld History

Napoleon Proclaimed Emperor

1813 CEModern

Charter Act 1813

1815 CEWorld History

Congress of Vienna

1818 CEModern

Third Anglo-Maratha War

1829 CEModern

Sati Abolished

1833 CEModern

Charter Act 1833

1835 CEModern

Macaulay's Minute on Education

1848 CEWorld History

Revolutions across Europe & Communist Manifesto

1853 CEModern

First Railway & Telegraph in India

1856 CEModern

Dalhousie's Reforms & Doctrine of Lapse

1857 CENational Movement

The Great Revolt of 1857

1858 CEModern

Crown Takes Over — End of EIC

1861 CEWorld History

Italian Unification & American Civil War

1871 CEWorld History

Unification of Germany & Paris Commune

1877 CEModern

Queen Victoria — Empress of India

1878 CENational Movement

Vernacular Press Act

1884 CEWorld History

Berlin Conference — Scramble for Africa

1885 CENational Movement

Indian National Congress Founded

1894 CEWorld History

First Sino-Japanese War

1898 CEWorld History

Spanish-American War

1899 CEWorld History

Boer War

1904 CEWorld History

Russo-Japanese War

1905 CENational Movement

Partition of Bengal & Swadeshi Movement

1906 CENational Movement

Muslim League Founded

1907 CENational Movement

Surat Split

1909 CENational Movement

Morley-Minto Reforms

1911 CENational Movement

Partition of Bengal Annulled — Capital Shifted

1914 CEWorld History

World War I Begins

1915 CENational Movement

Gandhi Returns to India

1916 CENational Movement

Lucknow Pact & Home Rule League

1917 CEWorld History

Russian Revolution

1918 CEWorld History

WWI Ends — Montagu Declaration

1919 CENational Movement

Rowlatt Act & Jallianwala Bagh

1920 CENational Movement

Non-Cooperation & Khilafat Movement

1922 CENational Movement

Chauri Chaura & Suspension of NCM

1927 CENational Movement

Simon Commission

1929 CENational Movement

Purna Swaraj Declared & Wall Street Crash

1930 CENational Movement

Dandi March & Civil Disobedience

1931 CENational Movement

Gandhi-Irwin Pact & Second RTC

1932 CENational Movement

Communal Award & Poona Pact

1933 CEWorld History

Hitler Becomes Chancellor — New Deal

1935 CENational Movement

Government of India Act 1935

1936 CEWorld History

Spanish Civil War

1937 CENational Movement

Provincial Elections — Congress Governments

1938 CEWorld History

Munich Agreement & Anschluss

1939 CEWorld History

World War II Begins

1940 CENational Movement

Lahore Resolution & Battle of Britain

1941 CEWorld History

Operation Barbarossa & Pearl Harbor

1942 CENational Movement

Quit India Movement

1943 CENational Movement

Bengal Famine & Battle of Stalingrad

1944 CEWorld History

D-Day & Bretton Woods

1945 CEWorld History

World War II Ends & UN Founded

1946 CENational Movement

Cabinet Mission & Direct Action Day

1947 CENational Movement

Indian Independence & Partition

1948 CEWorld History

Berlin Blockade, Israel & Gandhi Assassinated

1949 CEWorld History

NATO & People's Republic of China

1950 CEWorld History

Korean War Begins

1954 CEWorld History

Dien Bien Phu — French Defeat in Vietnam

1955 CEWorld History

Bandung Conference & Warsaw Pact

1956 CEWorld History

Suez Crisis & Hungarian Uprising

1957 CEWorld History

Sputnik Launch & Ghana Independence

1959 CEWorld History

Cuban Revolution & Tibet Uprising

1960 CEWorld History

Year of Africa

1961 CEWorld History

Berlin Wall & Non-Aligned Movement Founded

1962 CEWorld History

Cuban Missile Crisis & Sino-Indian War

1963 CEWorld History

JFK Assassinated & Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

1966 CEWorld History

Cultural Revolution — China

1967 CEWorld History

Six-Day War

1968 CEWorld History

Prague Spring & Global Unrest

1969 CEWorld History

Moon Landing — Apollo 11

1971 CEWorld History

Bangladesh Liberation War

1972 CEWorld History

Nixon Visits China & SALT I

1973 CEWorld History

Yom Kippur War & Oil Crisis

1975 CEWorld History

Fall of Saigon & Helsinki Accords

1978 CEWorld History

Camp David Accords

1979 CEWorld History

Iranian Revolution & Soviet Afghanistan

1980 CEWorld History

Solidarity Movement & Reagan Elected

1985 CEWorld History

Gorbachev — Glasnost & Perestroika

1986 CEWorld History

Chernobyl Disaster

1987 CEWorld History

INF Treaty — Reagan & Gorbachev

1989 CEWorld History

Berlin Wall Falls & Revolutions in Eastern Europe

1990 CEWorld History

German Reunification & Gulf Crisis

1991 CEWorld History

Dissolution of Soviet Union