Timeline History of Kerala

Kerala, southwestern coastal state of India. It is a small state, constituting only about 1 percent of the total area of the country. Kerala stretches for about 360 miles (580 km) along the Malabar Coast, varying in width from roughly 20 to 75 miles (30 to 120 km). It is bordered by the states of Karnataka (formerly Mysore) to the north and Tamil Nadu to the east and by the Arabian Sea to the south and west; it also surrounds Mahe, a segment of the state of Puducherry, on the northwestern coast. The capital is Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum).

 

BC 3000	Trade relation with Indus Valley civilization
BC 2000	Trading of spices with Assyria and Babylonia
BC 1000	Ivory, monkeys and peacocks were shipped to Israel for King Solomon
700 BC	Dravidians reach south India from the Mediterranean region
330 BC	Megasthenes’s reference of Kerala
300 BC	Aryans enter Kerala from north India
300 BC	Katyayana mentions about kerala
BC 270	Keralaputra referred  by ashoka in his inscription No-2
AD 45	Hippalus reaches Kerala, direct trade with Rome
AD 52	St. Thomas reaches Kerala
AD 68	Jews reach Kerala
AD 788	The birth of Sankaracharya
AD 820	The death of Sankaracharya
AD 825	Beginning of Malayalam Era
851	Sulaiman in Kerala
1292	Italiyan traveler Marcopolo reacehd in Kerala
1295	Kozhikode city estabhsiled
1342-1347	African traveler Ibn Batuta at Kozhikode
1440	Nicholo Conti in Kerala
1498	Vasco da Gama reaches Kappad near Kozhikode
1503	The first Portuguese fort at Kannur
1505	First Portuguese Viceroy  De Almeida reached in Kochi
1510	War between Portuguese and the Zamorin at kozhikode
1514	Jewish migration from Kodungallor to Kochin
1524	Vasco Da Gama appointed as Viceroy of Kerala, Gama buried at ST. Francis Church, Fort Cochin.
1567	Establishment of Jewish Synagogue
1573	Printing press started functioning in Kochi and Vypinkotta
1599	Udayamperroor Suhahadhos
1600	Portuguese kills Kunhali Marakkar IV
1616	Captain Keeling reached Kerala
1663	Dutch Conquers Kochi
1694	The construction of Thalassery factory
1721	Attingal Revolt
1729	Marthanda Varma became king of Travancore
1731	Sree Padmanabha swami temple eas rebuilt  by King Marthanda Varma
1741	Battle of Kulachal, – Marthanda Varma defeated the Dutch
1750	Trippadidhanam
1755	The last known Maamankam at Thirunavai
1766	The conquest of Malabar by Hyder
1772	Samkshepaveratham, the first book in Malayalam was published
1797	First Pazhassi Viplavam(Pazhassi Revolution)
1801	Malabar under the Madras Presidency
1805	Death of Pazhassi raja,  Travancore accepts British supremacy
1809	Kundara Proclamation of Velu Thampi Dalava, Velu thampi commits suicide
1812	Kurichiya revolt against British
1831	First census in Travancore
1834	English education started by Maharaja Swatithirunal in Travancore
1847	Rajyasamacharam- malayalam newspaper published
1855	Birth of Sree Narayna guru
1858	First English school at Tahalassery
1866	The firs arts college at Thiruvananthapuram
1888	Establishment of Malayala Manorama
1891	The First Legislative Assembly in Travancore formed
1891	Malayali Memorial
1895-96	Ezhava Memerial
1904	The beginning of Legislative Assembly in Travancore
1920	Gandhiji first visit in Kerala
1921	Malabar Mutiny
1921	First All Kerala congress political meeting was held at Ottapalam
1924	Vaikom Satyagraha
1928	Death of Sree Narayana Guru
1931	Guruvayur satyagraha
1932	Nivarthana agitation
1935	P. Krishna pilla, and E. M. S  Nambothiripad jointly formed communist  party in Malabar.
1936	Kshetra Praveshana Vilambaram  Allowing the lower cast to enter temple.
1937	Travancore University established, renamed Kerala University in 1957
1940	The first Hydro-Electricity  project in Kerala started at pallivsal
1943	First Radio station in Trivandrum
1946	Punnapra – Vayalar revolt
1948	First public election and the first ministry in Travancore   assumes in charge with sri Pattom Thanu Pillai as chief minister
1949	Integration of  Travancore and Kochi
1956	Formation of Kerala State
1957	First Elected Communist Government