|
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 Gama becomes 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 First World War |
|
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 II
began |
|
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 |
