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Old April 19th, 2016, 01:54 PM
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As you said you are going to appear in RAS exam and for its GK of history paper looking for Historical Events In India list , so on your demand here I am providing same for you:

B.C.

2500-1800: Indus Valley Civilization
599: Birth of Mahavir; Nirvana in 523 B.C.
563: Birth of Gautam Buddha; Nirvana in 483 B.C.
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

A.D.

78: Beginning of Saka era
320: Beginning of Gupta era
360: Samudragupta conquered the whole of N. 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
622: Beginning of Hijri era
712: Arab invasion of Sind by Mohd. bin Qasim
1025: Somnath temple sacked by Mehmud
1191: First battle of Tarain in which Prithviraj Chauhan defeated Mohd. Ghori
1192: Second battle of Tarain in which Mohd. Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan
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
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
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