Sunday, 7 September 2014

Indian History: Important Dates Part I

1500-1799
  • 1497-98: First Voyage of Vasco de Gama to India (discovery of sea route to India via Cape of Good Hope)
  • 1526: First battele of Panipat (Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodhi)
  • 1527: Battle of Kanwaha (Babur defeated Rana Sanga)
  • 1530: Death of Babur and Accession of Humayun
  • 1539: Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun and became India's emperor
  • 1540: Battle of Kanuj
  • 1555: Humayun recaptured the throne of Delhi
  • 1556: Second battle of Panipat
  • 1565: Battle of Talikota
  • 1576: Battle of Haldighati (Rana Pratap defeated by Akbar)
  • 1582: Din-e-Illahi founded by Akbar
  • 1597: Death of Rana Pratap
  • 1600: East India Company established
  • 1605: Death of Akbar and Accession of Jahngir
  • 1634: The British permitted to trade in India in Bengal
  • 1659: Accession of Aurangzeb and Shah Jahan imprisoned
  • 1665: Shivaji Imprisoned by Aurangzeb
  • 1675: Execution of Teg Bahadur (the ninth Guru of Shikhs)
  • 1680: Death of Shivaji
  • 1707: Death of Aurangzeb
  • 1757: Battle of Plassey (established of British political rule in India at the hands of Lord Clive)
  • 1761: Third battle of Panipat (Shah Alam becomes India's Emperor)
  • 1764: Battle of Buxar
  • 1765: Lord Clive appointed Company's Governor in India
  • 1767: First Mysore war
  • 1770: The Great Bengal Fami
  • 1780: Second Mysore war
  • 1784: Pitt's India Act
  • 1790: Third Mysore war
  • 1793: Permanent settlement of Bengal
  • 1799: Fourth Mysore war (Death of Tipu Sultan)

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