Ancient Assam || History of Assam || Medieval Assam

Ancient Assam

🔹 350 Pushya Varman establishes the Varman dynasty in Kamarupa.

🔹 594 Kumar Bhaskar Varman became the king of Kamrupa.

🔹 636 Chinese Buddhist scholar/traveler Xuanzang visits the court of Bhaskar Varman in Kamarupa.

🔹 650 Kumar Bhaskar Varman Dies. End of the great Varman Dynasty.

 

 

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Medieval Assam

🔹 1185 Prithu establishes the Khen dynasty and the Kamata kingdom.*

🔹 1187 Birpal establishes Chutiya kingdom in Sadiya

🔹 1206 Muslims first attack Assam.

🔹 1228 First Ahom king Sukafa enters Assam.

🔹 1252 Sukafa establishes first Ahom capital in Charaideo.

🔹 1449 Srimanta Sankardev is born.

🔹 1490 First Ahom-Kachari battle.

🔹 1498 Alauddin Hussain Shah of Gaur removes the last Khen ruler of Kamata kingdom.

🔹 1515 Viswa Singha establishes Koch political power and Koch dynasty.

🔹 1522 Chutiya kingdom annexed to Ahom Kingdom under Suhungmung

🔹 1527 Nusrat Shah’s invasion, the first Muslim invasion of the Ahom kingdom, ends in failure.

🔹 1532 Turbak attacks Ahom Kingdom, the first commander to enjoy some success.

🔹 1533 Turbak defeated and killed. Ahoms pursue Gaurarmy to Karatoya River & 1536 Ahoms destroy Dimapur, the capital of the Kachari kingdom.

🔹 1539 Ahom king establishes capital in Gargaon.

🔹 1540 Nara Narayan succeeds his father to the throne of Kamata kingdom.

 

 

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Modern Assam

🔹 1830 The first freedom fighter of Assam, Piyoli Phukanis hanged.

🔹 1837 Bangla is made official language of Assam by British creating controversy.

🔹 1843 Sivasagar sees first High school of Assam.

🔹 1853 A giant asteroid strikes the Brahmaputra River.

🔹 1858 Famous freedom fighter Maniram Dewan is hanged.

🔹 1861 Phulaguri Dhawa, the first peasant uprising against British rule was repressed.

🔹 1865 Assam gets Telegraph and telephone connections.

🔹 1873 Assamese becomes official language again.

🔹 1874 Assam is separated from Bengal and becomes an independent state.

🔹 1889 First publication of Assamese magazine Junaki’.

🔹 1894 Patharughat raijmel fired upon, villagers tortured and property confiscated.+

🔹 1897 Assam witnesses a devasting earthquake killing thousands of people

🔹 1900 Tea research center is established in Tukulai,Jorhat

🔹 1901 Cotton is established in Gauhati. Asia’s first Oil refinery is established in Digboi.& 1917 First meeting of Assam Sahitya Sabha.

🔹 1921 Mahatma Gandhi visits Assam.

 

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