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  • Apr 1, 606

    Harshavardhana was crowned king

    Harshavardhana was crowned king
    Crowned king when he was 16 years old. Ruled for 41 years (590-647)
  • Apr 13, 715

    Muslims invade India

    Muslims invade India
    The first Muslim attack on India.
  • Apr 13, 1192

    Mohammad Ghori

    Mohammad Ghori
    Muhammad Ghori is said to have invaded India seven times. Mohammad Ghori invaded Multan in about 1175-76AD. In 1178 A.D he attempted the conquest of Gujarat. He was strongly resisted by Bhimdev II who inflicted a crushing defeat on him.
  • Apr 16, 1198

    Victory of Prithviraj Chauhan

    Victory of Prithviraj Chauhan
    First battle of Tarain between Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj III and Ghauri is defeated by Prithivi Raj Chauhan III.
  • Jan 1, 1221

    Genghis Khan invades Pungab

    Genghis Khan invades Pungab
    The Mongol Empire launched several Mongol invasions into the Indian subcontinent from 1221 to 1327
  • Taj Mahal finished

    Taj Mahal finished
    not sure when it was realy finished no exact date
  • Hindu religon was started

    Hindu religon was started
    The religion of hinduism was started
  • East India Company signs treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh

    East India Company signs treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh
    (April 25, 1809), pact concluded between Charles T. Metcalfe, representing the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, head of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab. The treaty settled Indo-Sikh relations for a generation. The immediate occasion was the French threat to northwestern India, following Napoleon's Treaty of Tilsit with Russia (1807) and Ranjit's attempt to bring the Cis-Sutlej states under his control. The British wanted a defensive treaty against the French and control of Punjab to the
  • India gained freedom from Britain

    India gained freedom from Britain
    The last stages of the freedom struggle from the 1920s saw the Congress adopt the policies of nonviolence led by Mohandas Gandhi. Some leaders, such as Subhash Chandra Bose, later came to adopt a military approach to the movement, and others like Swami Sahajanand Saraswati who along with political freedom wanted economic freedom of peasants and toiling masses of the country.
  • Gandhi died

    Gandhi died
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi) was assassinated on 30 January 1948, shot at point-blank range by Nathuram Godse, an activist. Since 1934, there had been five unsuccessful attempts to kill Gandhi.