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| | 2500 BC | Dravidian civilization | |
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| | 1500 BC | Aryans invade India and conquered the Dravidians | |
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| | 1400 BC | The Vedas, the Hindu scripture, was written | |
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| | 800 BC | 800-600 BC The sacred scripture, the Upanishads written | |
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| | 518 BC | Persians conquered Pakistan | |
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| | 500 BC | Buddhism was founded in India by Siddhartha Gautama | |
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| | 500 BC | Jainism was founded in India by Mahavira Jains | |
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| | 326 BC | Alexander the Great moved into India | |
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| | 324 BC | The Mauryan Empire was established by Chandragupta Maurya including Afghanistan and parts of central Asia | |
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| | 272 BC | Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, becomes the emperor of India | |
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| | 185 BC | The Maurya Empire ended | |
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| | 50 AD | The Kushans established an empire in northern India | |
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| | 320 | The Gupta Indian dynasty reunited northern India initiating the "golden Age" of India | |
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| | 700s | Muslim armies from Arabia invade India | |
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| | 1206 | Qutb ub-din Aybak establishes the Delhi Sultanate | |
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| | 1398 | Timur conquered India resulting in the decline of the Delhi Sultanate | |
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| | 1498 | Vasco da Gama becomes the first European explorer to reach India | |
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| | 1500's | Christianity was introduced to India by the Europeans and in the early 1500s Sikhism was founded by Nana | |
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| | 1526 | Babur established the Mughal Empire | |
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| | 1600 | Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the East India Company established trading posts in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras | |
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| | 1628 | Shah Jahan, the ruler of the Mughal Empire, builds the Taj Mahal | |
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| | 1658 | The Strict Muslim, Aurangzeb, ruled India and tried to force Hindus to convert to Islam | |
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| | 1757 | The Battle of Plassey: Robert Clive, an agent of the East India Company, leads forces which defeated the Mughal governor of Bengal | |
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| | 1774 | Warren Hastings appointed the first governor general of India by the East India Company | |
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| | 1857 | The Sepoy Rebellion | |
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| | 1858 | The British government ruled India via an Indian Viceroy- called the British Raj | |
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| | 1876 | Queen Victoria was given the title Empress of India by the British Parliament | |
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| | 1885 | Burma became an Indian province The Indian National Congress was formed | |
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| | 1905 | The British government divided Bengal into separate Hindu and Muslim sections | |
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| | 1914 | 1914 - 1918 World War 1 | |
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| | 1919 | 13 April: The Amritsar Massacre | |
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| | 1920 | Mohandas Gandhi became the leader of the Indian independence movement and the Indian National Congress | |
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| | 1935 | The Government of India Act and the creation of a new constitution | |
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| | 1939 | 3 September: The United Kingdom declared war on Germany and World War 2 began | |
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| | 1940 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah demanded that a new country be formed from India for the Muslims, which would be called Pakistan | |
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| | 1945 | August: World War II ended when United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
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| | 1946 | The British government agreed to grant India independence | |
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| | 1946 | 16 August: Indian Muslims held nation-wide demonstrations calling for the establishment of Pakistan | |
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| | 1947 | British and Indian leaders agreed to divide the country into India and Pakistan 15 August 1947 India became independent | |
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| | 1948 | 30 January: Gandhi was assassinated | |
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| | 1950 | 26 January: A new Indian Constitution was ratified and Jawaharlal Nehru became the Indian first prime minister | |
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