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This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. also see the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and Years in India. Pre-historic India
The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, affected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent. When British rule came to an end in 1947 ...
Indian cultural influence (Greater India) Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across
Modern India Medicine. Urea stibamine – Sir Upendranath Brahmachari synthesised urea-stibamine (carbostibamide) in 1922 and determined that it was an effective treatment for kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis). post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis – n 1922, Brahmachari also discovered a new, deadly form of leishmaniasis. He called it dermal ...
10 May. Mutiny and Murders at Meerut, troops head towards Delhi. 11 May. Europeans, and Christians slaughtered in Delhi. 13 May. Bahadur Shah Zafar proclaimed new Mughal emperor; British disarm the garrison at Lahore. 17 May. Delhi Field Force, under George Anson, advances from Ambala. 22 May.
Appointed by Court of Directors of the East India Company. Governors-General of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), 1773–1833. Warren Hastings (1732–1818) 20 October 1773 [nb 1] 8 February 1785. Regulating Act of 1773. First Rohilla War (1773–1774) Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William (1774) was established.
Colonial era (1858–1947 CE)[edit] Jagadish Chandra Bose laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent. [128] He is considered one of the fathers of radio science. [129] Extent of the railway network in India in 1871; construction had begun in 1856.
The early modern period in Indian history is marked with the rise of the Mughal Empire between the 16th and 18th centuries. After the fall of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughals ruled from Agra , Sikri and Lahore , but the city once became the capital in 1648 during the rule of Shah Jahan , and remained the capital until the fall of the empire.