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History
Historical Dates (3000 BC-1773)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ransack of Somnath by Mahmud of Ghazni (17 plundering expeditions in India) | 1026 |
| Prithviraj Chauhan, King of Delhi, wins the First Battle of Tarain against Muhammad Ghori | 1191 |
| Second battle of Tarain, Ghori wins | 1192 |
| India threatened by Mongol invasions under Chenghis Khan | 1221 |
| Foundation of the Qutb Minar | 1232 |
| Marco Polo visits India | 1298 |
| Ibn Batuta arrives in India | 1333 |
| Founding of Vijaynagar Empire (Deccan) | 1336 |
| Rise of the Bahmani Dynasty (Deccan) | 1347 |
| Timur invades India | 1398 |
| Birth of Guru Nanak | 1469 |
| Adil Shah dynasty at Bijapur | 1489 |
| Nizam Shahi dynasty at Ahmednagar | 1490 |
| Vasco Da Gama arrives at Calicut on 27th May | 1498 |
| First battle of Panipat | 1526 |
| Guru Nanak dies | 1539 |
| Battle of Kanuaj-Sher Shah Suri defeats Humayun | 1540 |
| The Jesuits of Goa publish the first book in India | 1553 |
| Humayun recovers Delhi from Aslam Shah, successor of Sher Shah | 1555 |
| Akbar ascends the throne and defeats Hemu Vikramaditya in the Second Battle of Panipat | 1556 |
| Akbar abolishes poll tax on Hindus | 1564 |
| Battle of Talikota | 1565 |
| Fall of Chittorgarh | 1568 |
| Foundation of Fatehpur Sikri by Akbar | 1571 |
| Battle of Haldighati; Akbar defeats Rana Pratap of Mewar | 1576 |
| Akbar invades Khandesh | 1577-1597 |
| Akbar proclaims Din-i-Elahi | 1582 |
| Dutch reach India | 1595 |
| Rana Pratap dies | 1597 |
| English East India Company constituted by a Charter signed by Queen Elizabeth 1 | 1600 |
| Dutch East India company formed | 1602 |
| Adi Granth compiled by the fifht guru, Guru Arjan | 1604 |
| Dutch establish their first factory at Masulipatnam | 1605 |
| Third Buddhist Council at Pataliputra under the patronage of King Asoka | 250 BC |
| Fourth Buddhist Council | Kashmir, 72 AD |
| Fourth Buddhist Council was presided by | Vasumitra and Asvaghosa under the patronage of King Kanishka of Kushan Empire |
| Buddhism was divided into two sects namely Mahayan and Hinayan | 72 AD, Fourth Buddhist Council |
| Fifth Buddhist Council in Burma under the patronage of King Mindon | 1871 |
| Sixth Buddhist Council under the patronage of Burmese government | 1954 |
| First invasion of India by Mahmud Ghazni who defeated Jaipal, ruler of Punjab | 1001 |
| Shifting of Capital from Delhi to Daulatabad in Deccan by the Tughlaq | 1327 |
| Battle of Khanua – Babur defeated Rana Sang | 1527 |
| Din-e-Illahi founded by Akbar | 1582 |
| Execution of Guru Arjun Dev | 1606 |
| Death of Jahangir | 1627 |
| Death of Mumtaz Mahal | 1631 |
| The British permitted to trade in India in Bengal | 1634 |
| Accession of Aurangzeb, Shah Jahan imprisoned | 1658 |
| Shivaji imprisoned by Aurangzeb | 1665 |
| Death of Shah Jahan | 1666 |
| Execution of Teg Bahadur, the ninth Guru of Sikhs | 1675 |
| Death of Shivaji | 1680 |
| Death of Guru Gobind Singh | 1708 |
| Nadir Shah invades India | 1739 |
| Battle of Plassey, establishment of British political rule in India at the hands of Lord Clive | 1757 |
| Third Battle of Panipat; Shah Alam II becomes India’s emperor | 1761 |
| Clive appointed Company’s Governor in India | 1765 |
| First Mysore War | 1767 - 1769 |
| The Great Bengal Famine | 1770 |
| First Carnatic War; Dupleix (French Governor-General), Major Stringer Lawrence (British), Nawab of the Carnatic | 1746 – 1748 |
| Second Carnatic War-English won-Muzaffar Jung became Hyderabad’s Nizam. Muhammad Ali became the Nawab of the Carnatic | 1749 – 1754 |
| Third Carnatic War-Count de Lally (French General), British Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote-The Seven Year’s War broke out in Europe | 1758 – 1763 |
| Abdur Razak came to the court of | Deva Raya II of Vijayanagar |
| Al-Biruni came to the court of | Mahmud of Ghazni |
| Tahqiq-i-hind was written by | Al-Biruni |
| Who is known as the 'Father of Indology'? | Al-Biruni |
| Captain William Hawkins came to the court of | Jahangir (1609) |
| Fa-Hien-known for his visit to Lumbini came to the court of | Vikramaditya (Chandragupta II) |
| Francois Bernier came to the court of | Aurangzeb (1658-1671)-his personal physician |
| Huien Tsang | Harsha Vardhana |
| Who wrote Si-yu-ki | Huien Tsang |
| Ibn Batuta came to the court of | Mohammed Bin Tughlaq |
| Who wrote Rihla | Ibn Batuta |
| Marco Polo | Rudramma Devi of the Kakatiyas |
| Megasthenes (ambassador of Seleucus) came to the court of | Chandragupta Maurya |
| Who wrote Indica | Megasthenes |
| Nicolo Conti came to the court of | Deva Raya I of Vijayanagar |
| Thomas Roe came to the court of | Jahangir, 1615 |
| Birth of Shivaji | 1630 |
| Shivaji's coronation | 1674 |
| Bakhtiyar Khilji invaded Bengal in | 1194 |
| Iqta system was started by | Iltutmish |
| Adina Mosque was built by | Sikander Shah |
| Gunaraj Khan title was given to | Maladhar Basu, by Rukunuddin Barbak Shah |
| Humayun nama was written by | Gulbadan Begum |
| Battle of Raichur | 1520 (Bahmani and Vijaynagar) |
| Four Dynasties of Vijaynagar Empire | Sangama, Saluva, Tuluva (Krishna Deva Raya), Aravidu |
| Kanpur uprising of 1857 | Nana Saheb |
| Barrackpore uprising of 1857 | Mangal Pandey |
| Delhi uprising of 1857 | Bahadur Shah Zafar |
| Lucknow uprising of 1857 | Begum Hazrat Mahal |
| Jhansi uprising of 1857 | Rani Laxmi Bai (Mannikarnika) |
| Bihar uprising of 1857 | Kunwar Singh |
| Allahabad uprising of 1857 | Maulvi Liyakat Ali |
| Gwalio uprising of 1857r | Tantiya Tope |
| Assam uprising of 1857 | Kandapareshwar |
| Domingo Paes and Fernao Nuniz came to the court of | Krishna Deva Raya |
| Ashvaghosha was the court poet of | Kanishka |
| Banabhatta was the court poet of | Harshavardhana |
| Dandin was the court poet of | Narsimhavarman |
| Harisena was the court poet of | Samudragupta |
| Kalidasa was the court poet of | Chandragupta II |
| Rajashekhar was the court poet of | Mahindrapala |
| Ravikirti was the court poet of | Pulkesin II |
| Vishakhadatta was the court poet of | Harshavardhan |
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