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2500 -1500 BC: Mohenjo-daro, Harappa flourished in Indus Valley 1500 BC: First wave of Aryan immigration into India begins 326 BC: Alexander the Great invades India 322-182 BC: Mauryan dynasty, the first historical dynasty in the history of India 1498: Vasco-da-Gama lands at Calicut 1510 - Portuguese capture Goa 1526: First battle of Panipat. Establishment of the Mughal Dynasty 1526 - 1857 - Mughal rule in India 1600 - East India Company constituted 1757 - Battle of Plassey 1857 - First War of Independence 1858 - India comes under direct rule of the British crown after failed 'Indian mutiny' 1885 - Indian National Congress founded 1919 - The massacre at Jalianwala Bagh 1942-43 - Quit India movement 1942-43 - Quit India movement 1947 - India gains freedom, and Jawaharlal Nehru is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of independent India 1947-48 - Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal bloodshed after partition 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse 1950 - India becomes a Republic. Dr Rajendra Prasad is the first President of India 1952 - First general elections; Congress government comes to power 1956 - The states are reorganized on a linguistic basis 1962 - War with China and India loses 1964 - Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru 1966 - Tashkent Agreement reached. Shastri dies at Tashkent. Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister 1971 - Third war with Pakistan 1971 - Twenty-year treaty of friendship signed with Soviet Union 1972 - Shimla agreement signed between India and Pakistan 1974 - India's first atomic device exploded at Pokhran in Rajasthan 1975 - Indira Gandhi declared state of emergency 1977 - Indira Gandhi's Congress Party loses general elections. Janata Party comes to power 1979 - Janata Party splits; Seventh general elections held 1980 - Indira Gandhi returns to power heading Congress party splinter group, Congress (Indira) 1984 - Operation Blue Star. Indira Gandhi assassinated; son Rajiv Gandhi becomes Prime Minister 1987 - India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. Goa becomes the 25th state of India. 1989 - Rajiv Gandhi's Congress defeated in ninth general elections; minority government led by Janata Dal's V.P Singh comes to power 1990 - Indian troops withdrawn from Sri Lanka. 1991 - V.P Singh's government falls . Rajiv Gandhi assassinated. Congress government return to power with P.V. Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister 1992 - The dome of Babri Masjid (mosque) in Ayodhya demolished by hindu fanatics; triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence 1996 - Congress suffers worst ever electoral defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP emerges as largest single party. In May 16 AB Vajpayee is PM, until May 28; United Front Coalition forms government under Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda 1980 - Indira Gandhi returns to power heading Congress party splinter group, Congress (Indira) 1997 - Congress withdraws support to coalition government; I.K. Gujaral sworn in Prime Minister. 1998 - BJP forms coalition government under Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee 1999 - Vajpayee makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to meet Premier Nawaz Sharif and to sign bilateral Lahore peace declaration. 1999 - Intense fighting in Kargil 2004 - Congress Party win in general elections. Manmohan Singh is sworn in as prime minister
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