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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 |
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 |
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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