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The Vedas, the Hindu scripture written
Buddhism was founded in India by Siddhartha Gautama
The British Raj
Country divided into India and Pakistan

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2500 BC

 

Dravidian civilization

1500 BC

 

Aryans invade India and conquered the Dravidians

1400 BC

 

The Vedas, the Hindu scripture, was written

800 BC

 

800-600 BC The sacred scripture, the Upanishads written

518 BC

 

Persians conquered Pakistan

500 BC

 

Buddhism was founded in India by Siddhartha Gautama

500 BC

 

Jainism was founded in India by Mahavira Jains

326 BC

 

Alexander the Great moved into India

324 BC

 

The Mauryan Empire was established by Chandragupta Maurya including Afghanistan and parts of central Asia

272 BC

 

Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, becomes the emperor of India

185 BC

 

The Maurya Empire ended

50 AD

 

The Kushans established an empire in northern India

320

 

The Gupta Indian dynasty reunited northern India initiating the "golden Age" of India

700s

 

Muslim armies from Arabia invade India

1206

 

Qutb ub-din Aybak establishes the Delhi Sultanate

1398

 

Timur conquered India resulting in the decline of the Delhi Sultanate

1498

 

Vasco da Gamabecomes the first European explorer to reach India

1500's

 

Christianity was introduced to India by the Europeans and in the early 1500s Sikhism was founded by Nana

1526

 

Babur established the Mughal Empire

1600

 

Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the East India Company established trading posts in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras

1628

 

Shah Jahan, the ruler of the Mughal Empire, builds the Taj Mahal

1658

 

The Strict Muslim, Aurangzeb, ruled India and tried to force Hindus to convert to Islam

1757

 

The Battle of Plassey: Robert Clive, an agent of the East India Company, leads forces which defeated the Mughal governor of Bengal

1774

 

Warren Hastings appointed the first governor general of India by the East India Company

1857

 

The Sepoy Rebellion

1858

 

The British government ruled India via an Indian Viceroy- called the British Raj

1876

 

Queen Victoria was given the title Empress of India by the British Parliament

1885

 

Burma became an Indian province
The Indian National Congress was formed

1905

 

The British government divided Bengal into separate Hindu and Muslim sections

1914

 

1914 - 1918 World War 1

1919

 

13 April:  The Amritsar Massacre

1920

 

Mohandas Gandhi became the leader of the Indian independence movement and the Indian National Congress

1935

 

The Government of India Act and the creation of a new constitution

1939

 

3 September:  The United Kingdom declared war on Germany and World War 2began

1940

 

Muhammad Ali Jinnah demanded that a new country be formed from India for the Muslims, which would be called Pakistan

1945

 

August: World War II ended when United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1946

 

The British government agreed to grant India independence

1946

 

16 August: Indian Muslims held nation-wide demonstrations calling for the establishment of Pakistan

1947

 

British and Indian leaders agreed to divide the country into India and Pakistan
15 August 1947 India became independent

1948

 

30 January: Gandhi was assassinated

1950

 

26 January:  A new Indian Constitution was ratified and Jawaharlal Nehru became the Indian first prime minister

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