18th Century
| Year | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1700 | March 2 | Rajaram Chhatrapati died |
| 1705 | Mughal army arrested for the act. | |
| 1707 | death of Aurangzeb the mughal emperor. | |
| 1708 | Guru Granth Sahib becomes Guru of Sikhs. | |
| 1721 | March - October | Attingal Outbreak takes place |
| 13-14 November | Madras cyclone occurs | |
| 1749 | The Maratha Peshwa (prime minister) usurps the Maratha kingdom, starting a new dynastic rule based in Pune. | |
| 1757 | Battle of Plassey | |
| Company rule in India (to 1857) | ||
| 1759 | French India (to 1954) | |
| 1760 | Marathas comprehensively defeat the Nizam, Maratha Empire reaches its zenith. | |
| 1761 | The Marathas are routed in the Third Battle of Panipat on 14 January 1761, by the Afghans led by Ahmad Shah Durrani, an ethnic Pashtun, also known as Ahmad Shah Abdali. The battle is considered one of the largest battles fought in the 18th century. | |
| 1764 | Battle of Buxar | |
| 1765 | Princely states (to 1947) | |
| 1771 | Marathas re-captures Delhi and parts of North India. | |
| 1772 | 14 August | Ram Mohan Roy Born (to 1833) |
| 1773 | Narayanrao Peshwa is murdered by his uncle Raghunathrao's wife in front of Raghunathrao. | |
| Regulating Act of 1773 | ||
| Warren Hastings appointed as first Governor-General of India | ||
| 1774 | Chief Justice of the Maratha Empire, Ram Shastri passes death sentence against the ruling Peshwa Raghunathrao for murdering his nephew. | |
| 1775 | First Anglo-Maratha War | |
| 1777 | First Anglo-Maratha War begins, in which Haidar Ali of Mysore defeats the combined armies of the East India Company, the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad. | |
| 1779 | Maratha sardar Mahadji Shinde routs the East India Company army at the Battle of Wadgaon War ends with the restoration of status quo as per Treaty of Salbai. | |
| 1780 | Second Anglo-Mysore War begins. | |
| 1784 | Second Anglo-Mysore War ends with the Treaty of Mangalore. | |
| 1786 | District collectors in Bengal were made responsible for settling the revenue and collecting it. | |
| 1789 | Third Anglo-Mysore War begins. | |
| 1790 | The Marathas under Holkar and General de Boigne defeat the Rajputs of Jaipur and Mughals at the Battle of Patan, where 3000+ Rajput cavalry is killed and the entire Mughal unit vanquished. The defeat crushes Rajput hope of independence from external influence | |
| 1792 | Third Anglo-Mysore War ends. | |
| 1795 | August 13 | Death of Ahilyabai Holkar |
| 1796 | Ching-Thang Khomba moves Manipur's capital to Kangla | |
| 1798 | Fourth Anglo-Mysore War begins. | |
| 1799 | Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ends with the death of Tipu Sultan, the victory of the East India Company, and the restoration of their ally, the Wodeyar dynasty of Mysore. | |
| Polygar War | ||
| 1800 | Death of Nana Fadnavis |
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