Qualifying any entrance exams needs excellent knowledge, of General Knowledge. Here I’m listing the important dates of Indian History with short description. This list is very helpful in last moment of preparation. You can too download the important dates of India History PDF.
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Important Dates in Indian History
| Important Dates | Description |
| B C. (Before Christ) | |
| 563 | Birth of Gautama Buddha, Nirvana (483 B C.) |
| 599 | Birth of Mahavir, Nirvana (527 B C.) |
| 327-26 | Alexander’s invasion of India. It opened a land route between India and Europe |
| 273-232 | Asoka’s reign |
| 58 | Beginning of Vikram Era |
| A D. (After Christ) | |
| 300-500 | Gupta Dynasty the golden age of Hindu India. |
| 405-411 | Visit of Fahien (Chinese Traveller) |
| 606-647 | Harsh Vardhan’s reign |
| 1001 | First invasion of India by Mahmud Ghazni |
| 1191 | Prithviraj defeats Mohd. Guari at last battle of Tarain |
| 1192 | Mohammed Guari defeats Prithviraj Chauhan at 2nd battle of Tarain. |
| 1498 | Discovery of sea-route to India by Vasco-de-Gama |
| 1526 | First battle of Panipat, Babar founded Mughal Empire in India. |
| 1600 | East India Company established in India (31st Dec.) |
| 1657-1659 | War of succession among the sons of Shah Jahan begins |
| 1707 | Reign of Aurangzeb |
| 1761 | Third battle of Panipat |
| 1764 | Battle of Buxar (Bihar) |
| 1773 | Regulating Act |
| 1833 | Macaulay recommended English to be the medium of Instruction in India. |
| 1853 | First Railway Line opened in India |
| 1857 | Indian Mutiny for independence, Calcutta, Bombay and Madras University founded |
| 1869 | Birth of Mahatma Gandhi (2nd Oct.) |
| 1885 | Indian National Congress founded. |
| 1889 | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru born (14th Nov.) |
| 1905 | Partition of Bengal |
| 1911 | Partition of Bengal revoked |
| 1919 | Jalianwalah Bagh tragedy |
| 1920 | Non-co-operation Movement started by Mahatma Gandhi. |
| 1928 | Visit of Simon Commission boycotted. |
| 1929 | Resolution passed for Purna Swaraj for India at Lahore Congress under the president ship of Jawaharlal Nehru (31st Dec.) |
| 1930 | First Round table Conference of London. |
| 1937 | Provincial Autonomy, Congress forms Ministers |
| 1942 | Arrival of Cripps Mission in India; Quit India resolution passed by Congress |
| 1943-1944 | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose forms provisional Azad Hind Hukumat |
| 1947 | Division of India; India and Pakistan formed into separate independent Dominions; Independence Day |
| 1948 | Mahatma Gandhi assassinated (Jan. 30) |
| 1949 | Cease-fire in Kashmir; Indian Constitution signed and adopted |
| 1950 | India becomes a Sovereign Democratic Republic; Death of Sardar Patel; Dr. Rajendra Prasad elected President of India Republic. |
| 1951 | First Five Year Plan commenced |
| 1952 | First General Elections in the country; Congress Party comes to power. |
| 1956 | States Reorganization Act |
| 1957 | 2nd General Elections in India. |
| 1961 | Liberation of Goa (Dec. 18) |
| 1962 | Third General Election in India; Chinese attack on India (20th Oct.) |
| 1964 | Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (27th May), Lal Bahadur Shastri elected as the Prime Minister of India. |
| 1965 | Indo-Pak War. |
| 1966 | Tashkent Agreement signed between India and Pakistan (Jan. 10) |
| 1967 | Fourth General Elections held. |
| 1969 | Split in the Indian National Congress; death of President Dr. Zakir Hussain and election of V. V. Giri as President of India. |
| 1971 | Mid-term elections for Lok Sabha; Indo-Soviet Treaty (9th August), Indo-Pak War (Dec. 3-17) Defeat of Pakistan; Bangladesh formed (Dec. 16) |
| 1972 | Reorganization of the North-Easten region-Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura became fully Fledged States and new Union Territories of Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram came into being (Jan. 20, 21). |
| 1973 | Death of M.S. Golwalker (R.S.S. Chief); Indo-Pak Delhi Agreement (Aug.) |
| 1974 | India’s Nuclear Blast; 36th Constitution (Amendment) Bill passed by Parliament making Sikkim as an associate State of India. |
| 1975 | India lifts World Hockey Cup at Kualalumpur, India enters space age by launching ‘Aryabhatta’. Sikkim becomes the 22nd State of the Union. |
| 1976 | Four Indian News Agencies changed into a single News Agency ‘Samachar’; India announces appointment of an ambassador to China (April 16) |
| 1977 | Death of President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (Feb. 11); Polling for the Sixth Lok Sabha begins (March 16); Janata Party comes into existence (May 1); Janata Party comes into power; Seventh Finance Commission appointed. |
| 1978 | Inauguration of National Adult Education Programme (2nd Oct.); 44th Constitution Amendment Bill, as amended by the Rajya Sabha passed by the Lok Sabha (Dec.) |
| 1979 | Agreement between India and Canada on the setting up of Joint Commission for economic trade and technological co-operation; India’s Second Satellite Bhaskara launched into space. |
| 1980 | Reservation for Scheduled Caste and Tribes in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies extended for a further period of ten years by the 45th Constitution Amendment Act (April 14); Six more commercial banks nationalized (April 15) |
| 1981 | Sixth Plan draft finalized fixing the target for growth at 5.2 per cent (23rd Jan.); Rohini Satellite in orbit (May 31); Bhasker-2 launched in orbit (Nov. 1st) |
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