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 |