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3200-1600 BCE: Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa; Dravidian; Bronze Age

Aryan Migration; Bronze Age
1000-500 BCE (700 BCE): Small kingdoms on the Himalayan foothills
500 BCE: Nanda Dynasty; Darius made parts of India a satrapy

327-326 BCE: Alexander the Great entered Punjab

323 BCE: Chandragupta Maurya
313-312 BCE: Consolidation Transition to Imperial government of Mauryas
c. 227-232 BCE: Asoka Priyadarsis Dharma Mahamatra; Trade w/ China &
Greece; Nalanda University in Nepal (1st university)
9) 176 -164 BCE: Sunga Dynasty; North India came in contact w/ South India
10) 189 CE: Height of Kanishka rule under Kusaba up to Pataliputra; Start of
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11) Rise of petty kingdoms: Trade w/ Egypt, Greece & China
250-300 CE: Greek Scythian kingdom from Bactria
Scythian king Kanishka brought Buddhism into Central Asia
India became a part of Silk road (China-India-Central Asia-Rome)
12) 320-340 CE: Gupta (North) ; Capital at Samudra Gupta (also known as
Pataliputra)
320-375 CE: Chandragupta II/Vikramaditya
315 CE: Height of Gupta
1st Golden Age; seen & recorded by Buddhist traveller Fa Hsien
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13) 480 +/- CE: Hunas destroyed Gupta
Revival of Sanskrit learning
500-540 CE: Last of the Guptas
Hunas destroyed the Nalandas
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14) 800s -1251 CE: Chola Dynasty (South)
2nd Golden Age
Shifted the cultural center to the South
Capital in Tanjore
Hinduism appropriated Buddhism = Buddha as an avatar of Vishnu
15) Deccan Plateau underwent cultural development w/ Pallavas in Tamil area
16) 1000s CE: Beginning of Muslim rule in the North
17) 1010 CE: Peak of Chola in South
18) 1202: Delhi Sultanate
1206: Official start of Delhi Sultanate
19) 1330: Brief unity under Muslim rule
20) 1398-1399: Timur the Lame/Tamerlane/Temurs conquest of India; Rise of
Samarkand in Turkestan
21) 1347-1489: Bahmani kingdom disintegrated into 5 provinces
22) 1526: Babur defeats Ibrahim Lodhi at Panipat (Sultan of Delhi)
23) 1562: Akbars rule
1564: Abolition of Jizhya
24) 1617: Shah Jahans rule

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1631: Mumtaz Mahal dies

1658: Aurangzeb deposes Shah Jahan
1679: Jizhya reimposed
1739: Persians massacre the people of Delhi & carried of the Peacock Throne
1858: Sepoy mutiny
1862: Death of Bahadur Shah II (last Mughal) in Burma while in exile
End of British East India Company administration
Appointment of viceroy of India by the England monarchy

30) May 27, 1498: Vasco da Gama arrived in Calicut, Malabar Coast; Brought
spices from Zamoris
Diwan I Khaz = receiving hall
31) 1502: Vasco da Gama blasted the Calicut port
32) 1509-1515: Alfonse de Albuquerque = Viceroy of Portugal in the East; Main
architect of Portugals Indian Empire
33) 1510: Alburquerques control of Goa in Malabar
34) 1542: Jesuit missionaries in Goa
35) 1554: Englands Muscovy to rival East India Company
36) December 31, 1600: Queen Elizabeth I granted her Royal Charter to the
government & company of merchants of London
37) August 24, 1608: England East India Companys ship arrived in Surat
38) 1611: First English Seep to reach Eastern India at the Coromandel coast at
Calicut
39) 1616: Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador to Jahangirs Court
40) 1682-1690: Sir John Child president of EEIC at Surat as governor of Bombay
(also known Mumbay)
41) 1765: Robert Clive as governor at fort William
42) 1732-1788: Warren Hastings as governor at fort William
43) 1738-1785: Lord Cornwallis as governor of Bengal
44) 1861: India Council Act; India Opinion
45) 1885: Indian National Congress; Government reforms by Arya Samaj-Bramo
Samaj
46) 1906: All India Muslim League established
47) 1909: Indian Council Act, Morley-Minto reform
48) 1915: Gokhale died
49) 1916: Bal Gangadhar Tilak president of Home Rule League; Lucknow Pact
Muhammad Ali Jinnahs Muslim League (consolidation of moderate & radical
wings of Indian National Congress); Tilak died in 1920
50) 1914-1918: Khilafat movement/pan-Islamic movement
51) 1919: Massacre of Amritsar
52) 1920: Gandhi entered scene; Rowlatt Acts protest
53) 1930: Start of Satyagraha w/ Ahimsa (violation of Salt Monopoly); Nehrus
Independence Resolution
54) 1936: Indian Act Indian Independence
55) 1945: Muslim League under Muhammad Ali Jinnah got overwhelming support
56) 1946: Sir Stafford Cripps proposed a 3 tier plan for a federal union
57) 1947: Prime Minister Clement Attlee transfer government to India
58) August 15, 1947: Indian Independence; Division of Pakistan & India