Gurjara-Pratihara Kingdom
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Was a dynasty that ruled much of Northern India from the mid-8th to the 11th century.
Establishment
January 648: Harsha eventually made Kanyakubja (modern Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh) his capital, and ruled till c. 647 CE. He died without an heir, leading to the end of the Pushyabhuti dynasty.
Chronology
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In the VIII century Muktapida, an Indian king of the Karkota dynasty of Kashmir, created a short-lived empire covering most of India.
January 741: Malwa was lost to Gurjara-Pratiharas before the arab invasion (735-736).
January 741: Karkota ruler Lalitaditya Muktapida conquered extensive territories in India and Central Asia.
January 741: Gurjara-Pratihara ruler Nagabhata I (730-756) extended his control east and south from Mandor, conquering Malwa as far as Gwalior and the port of Bharuch in Gujarat.
January 761: Karkota ruler Lalitaditya Muktapida conquered extensive territories in India and Central Asia.
Expansion during the rule of Mahmud of the Ghaznavids.
January 1019: Mahmud of Ghazni expanded up to Kannauj in 1018.
January 698: Kahlur was founded around 697 CE by Bir Chand.
January 701: After the fall of the Sharabhapuriyas in the late 6th century, Dakshina Kosala appears to have been controlled by petty chiefs until the Panduvamshis gained control of the region.
January 701: The Katyuri kings were a medieval ruling clan of present-day Uttarakhand, India. They ruled over the region now known as Kumaon from 700 to 1200 CE.
January 701: Harikela was a kingdom in ancient Bengal mentioned by sources from the 7th century.
January 729: Mewar was founded by Bappa Rawal, formerly a chieftain of the Mori king of Chittor, who acquired control of Chittor in c.728.
January 741: Malwa was lost to Gurjara-Pratiharas before the arab invasion (735-736).
January 741: Gurjara-Pratihara ruler Nagabhata I (730-756) extended his control east and south from Mandor, conquering Malwa as far as Gwalior and the port of Bharuch in Gujarat.
January 741: Chalukya king Vikramaditya II captured the Khetaka region from the Maitrakas with the help of Jayabhatta IV, the Gurjara king of Lata.
January 751: After the fall of Shashanka's kingdom, the Bengal region was in a state of anarchy. There was no central authority, and there was constant struggle between petty chieftains. Gopala ascended the throne as the first Pala king during these times. The Khalimpur copper plate suggests that the prakriti (people) of the region made him the king.
January 751: Gurjaradesa submitted to the Pratiharas.
January 761: Karkota ruler Lalitaditya Muktapida conquered extensive territories in India and Central Asia.
January 761: Siladitya V probably had tried to recover Malwa as one of his grant (760 CE) is made from military camp at Godraka (Godhra). He must have failed to recover Malwa but nonetheless recovered the Khetaka (Kheda) region.
January 766: The Suket Kingdom was founded about 765 by Bira Sen (Vir Sen).
January 784: Agguka I of the Saindhava dynasty had claimed in his inscription a victory thus they had to withdraw. The Maitraka dynasty ended by c. 783 CE. Apart from legendary accounts which connects fall of Vallabi with the Tajjika (Arab) invasions, no historical source mention how the dynasty ended.
January 801: From his capital in Mayurkhandi in Bidar district, Govinda III conducted his northern campaign in 800 C.E. He successfully obtained the submission of Gurjara-Pratihara Nagabhata II, Dharmapala of Pala Empire and the incumbent puppet ruler of Kannauj, Chakrayudha.
January 801: In 800, the Bhauma-Kara dynasty, ruled by King Janakaraja, expanded their territory by conquering neighboring regions in present-day Odisha, India.
January 801: Pala emperor Dharmapala defeated Indrayudha of Kannauj, and installed his own nominee Chakrayudha on the throne of Kannauj. Several other smaller states in North India also acknowledged his suzerainty.
January 801: Vatsraja was defeated by the Dhruva Dharavarsha of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, who conquered Malwa.
January 806: His expansion was checked by Vatsaraja's son Nagabhata II, who conquered Kannauj and drove away Chakrayudha.
January 807: Dharmapala was forced to surrender and to seek alliance with the Rashtrakuta emperor Govinda III, who then intervened by invading northern India and defeating Nagabhata II.
January 811: Vatsraja was succeeded by Nagabhata II (805-833), who was initially defeated by the Rashtrakuta ruler Govinda III (793-814), but later recovered Malwa from the Rashtrakutas.
January 811: The Gurjara-Pratiharas conquered Kannauj and the Indo-Gangetic Plain as far as Bihar.
January 813: Historical evidence suggests that between 808-812 CE, the Rashtrakutas expelled the Gurjara-Pratiharas from the Malwa region.
January 824: Garhwal Kingdom was an independent kingdom in the current north-western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India, founded in 823 AD by Kanakpal, the progenitor of the Panwar dynasty that ruled over the kingdom.
January 834: The king of the Gurjara-Pratiharas, Nagabhata II, took advantage of the situation, invaded Kannauj, defeated Chakrayudha, and then made Kannauj his capital. This marked the end of the Ayudhas.
January 841: Mihira Bhoja (c. 836-886) expanded the Pratihara dominions west to the border of Sind, east to Bengal, and south to the Narmada.
January 901: As the Pratihara power declined, the Tomaras established a sovereign principality around Delhi by the 10th century.
January 915: The Gurjara Pratihara ruler Mahendrapala I was experiencing some family feuds and this gave Indra III an opportunity to attack Kannauj in the Ganges - Yamuna doab.
January 917: The Rashtrakutas were actually able to hold Kannauj until c.916.
January 926: The Chandelas initially ruled as feudatories of the Gurjara-Pratiharas of Kanyakubja. Harsha's son Yashovarman (r. c. 925-950 CE) continued to acknowledge the Pratihara suzerainty, but became practically independent.
January 950: The start of the Paramara rule in Malwa cannot be dated with certainty, but they certainly did not rule the Malwa before the 9th century CE. The first independent sovereign of the Paramara dynasty was Siyaka (sometimes called Siyaka II to distinguish him from the earlier Siyaka mentioned in the Udaipur Prashasti). The Harsola copper plates (949 CE) suggest that Siyaka was a feudatory of the Rashtrakuta ruler Krishna III in his early days.
January 951: The 8th century Chahamana ruler Durlabharaja I and his successors are known to have served the Gurjara-Pratiharas as vassals. In 10th century, Vakpatiraja I overthrew the Gurjara-Pratihara suzerainty, and assumed the title Maharaja ("great king").
January 951: The Gurjara-Pratiharas lost control of Rajasthan to their feudatories.
January 951: His younger son Lakshmana established the Naddula Chahamana branch.
January 965: In 964, the Chandelas of Jejakabhukti, led by their ruler Krishna III, captured the territories of Chitrakuta and Kalinjar. Krishna III was a prominent ruler of the Chandela dynasty known for his military conquests in central India.
January 973: Paramara King Siyaka Harsha attacked and conwuered Manyakheta, the capital of the Rashtrakutas.
January 991: Kokalla I appears to have been the first powerful ruler of the Kalachuris of Tripuri dynasty, as he finds regular mentions in the genealogies of the later Kalachuri rulers.
January 1001: By the end of the 10th century, the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty controlled little more than the Gangetic Doab.
Disestablishment
January 1019: Mahmud of Ghazni expanded up to Kannauj in 1018.
Selected Sources
Schwartzberg, J. E. (1992); A Historical Atlas of South Asia, Chicago (USA), p. 146
