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2000000 to 100000 BC
A skull fragment found in Hathnora in the Narmada Valley in central India indicate that India might have been inhabited in the Middle Pleistoceneera around 250,000 years ago. Anek R. Sankhyan describes it as “debated and conveniently interpreted as ?evolved? Homo erectus or ?archaic?.[1] Tools crafted by proto-humans that have been dated back two million years have been discovered in the northwestern part of the subcontinent.[2][3] The earliest archaeological site in the subcontinent is the palaeolithic hominid site in the Soan River valley.[4] Soanian sites are found in theSivalik region across what are now India, Pakistan, and Nepal.
2000000 to 100000 BC
Some of the Bhimbetka shelters were inhabited by Homo erectus more than 100,000 years ago.
2000000 to 100000 BC
Madrasian Culture is a prehistoric (aka Paleolithic) culture of South India.[10] It flourished in the Lower Paleolithic, the earliest subdivision of theStone Age, about 2.5 million years ago. It is called the Madrasian culture because artifact tools thought to be related to this culture were first found at sites in Attirampakkam (Attrambakkam=13? 13’ 50”, 79? 53’ 20”), which is located near Chennai (formerly known as Madras),Tamil Nadu.[11]Thereafter, tools related to this culture have been found at various other locations in this region. Bifacial handaxes and cleavers are typicalassemblages recovered of this culture.[12] Flake tools, microliths and other chopping tools have also been found. Most of these tools were composed of the metamorphic rock quartzite.[11] The stone tool artifacts in this assemblage have been identified as a part of the second inter-pluvial period in India.[13]
2000000 to 100000 BC
Evidence for presence of Hominins with Acheulean technology 150,000-100,000 BCE in Tamil Nadu.[14]
2000000 to 100000 BC
Paleolithic industries in South India Tamil Nadu 30,000 BCE[15]
9000 BC
Early Neolithic culture with first confirmed semi permanent settlements appeared 9,000 years ago in the Bhimbetka rock shelters in modernMadhya Pradesh, India. Some of the Stone Age rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters are approximately 30,000 years old.[16]
9001 BC
The ancient history of the region includes some of South Asia’s oldest settlements[17] and some of its major civilisations.
6000 BC
Stone Age carvings of Edakkal Caves in Kerala.
3300 BC
Phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins. The civilization used an early form of the Indus signs, the so-called Indus script.
3139 BC
Mahabharatha War presumed using planetary positions listed in the Mah?bh?rata.
2600 BC
The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro become large metropolises and the civilization expands to over 2,500 cities and settlements across the whole of Pakistan, much of northern India, and large parts of Afghanistan,[20] covering a region of around one million square miles, which was larger than the land area of its contemporaries Egypt and Mesopotamia combined, and also had superior urban planning and sewage systems. The civilization began using the mature Indus script for its writing system.
2600 BC
End of the Early Dynastic II Period and the beginning of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period in Mesopotamia.
2700 BC
Mesoamericans begin to plant and domesticate corn.
2900 BC to 2334 BC
Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
2600 BC
Mature Harappan phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins. The cities of Harappa, Lothal, Kalibangan, Dholavira, Rakhigarhi and Mohenjo-darobecome large metropolises and the civilization expands to over 2,500 cities and settlements. The civilization began using the mature Indus script
2500 BC
Dravidian Civilization begins in South India.
1800 BC
Adichanallur urn-burial site in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. In 2004, a number of skeletons dating from around 3,800 years ago.
1800 BC
Indo-Aryan migration
1500 BC
Early Vedic Period (to 1000 BC)
1300 BC
Cemetery H culture comes to an end
1200 BC
Rigveda (to 1000 BC)
1000 BC
Middle and Late Vedic period (to 500 BC)
1000 BC
Iron Age India
1000 BC
1000 - 300 BCE-Kanchi district, gold mine of Megalithic sites in South India, Tamil Nadu[21]
1000 BC
Iron Age kingdoms rule India? Panchala, Kuru, Kosala, Videha.
877 BC
Birth of Parsvanatha, 23rd Jain Tirthankara (traditional date)
700 BC
The Upanishads, a sacred text of Hinduism, are written.
600 BC
Sixteen Maha Janapadas (“Great Realms” or “Great Kingdoms”) emerge.
600 BC
Vedic End of vedic period.
600 BC
The capital of the Early Pandyan Kingdom was initially Korkai, allyaround 600 BCE,[22] and was later moved to Koodal (now Madurai) during the reign of Nedunjeliyan I.[23]
599 BC
Mahavira, 24th Tirthankar of Jainism is born (traditional date).
563 BC
Siddh?rtha Gautama, Buddha-to-be, is born in Lumbini into a leading royal family in the republic of the Shakyas, which is now part of Nepal.
543 BC
The odisha based Prince Vijaya (c. 543 BCE) married a daughter of the Pandyan king of ThenMadurai, to whom he was sending rich presents every year. Sinhalese chronicle Mahawamsa mentions this event[24][25]
538 BC
Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquers northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent.
527 BC
Nirvana of Mahavira
483 BC
Proposed Mahaparinirvana date of Gautama Buddha at Kushinagar.
400 BC
Siddharta Gautama ‘Buddha’ of the Shakya polity in S. Nepal, founds Buddhism (older date: 563?483 BC)
350 BC
Panini, a resident of Gandhara, describes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini’s standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit.
333 BC
Persian rule in the northwest ends after Darius III is defeated by Alexander the Great, who establishes the Macedonian Empire after inheriting the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
326 BC
Ambhi king of Takshasheela surrenders to Alexander.
326 BC
Porus who ruled parts of the Punjab, fought Alexander at the Battle of the Hydaspes River.
321 BC
Mauryan Empire is founded by Chandragupta Maurya in Magadha after he defeats the Nanda dynasty and Macedonian Seleucid Empire. Mauryan capital city is Pataliputra (Modern Patna in Bihar)
305 BC
Chandragupta Maurya defeats Seleucus Nicator of the Seleucid Empire.
304 BC
Seleucus gives up his territories in the subcontinent (Afghanistan/Baluchistan) to Chandragupta in exchange for 500 elephants. Seleucus offers his daughter in marriage to Chandragupta to seal their friendship.
273 BC
Ashoka the Great regarded as the greatest ancient Indian emperor, grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, ascends as emperor of the Mauryan Empire.
266 BC
Ashoka conquers and unifies most of South Asia, along with most of Afghanistan and Balochistan.[26]
265 BC
Kalinga War takes place between Ashoka and the kingdom of Kalinga.
265 BC
After conquering Kalinga, Ashoka reportedly regrets what he had done, leading him to adopt Buddhism, which then became the quasi-official state religion of the Mauryan Empire.
261 BC
Conquest of Kalinga
260 BC
Ashoka begins displaying religious tolerance, grants animal rights, builds hospitals for people and animals, treats his subjects as equals regardless of caste or creed, and promotes non-violence and republicanism.
260 BC
Ashoka inscribes the Edicts of Ashoka, written down using Brahmi script.
232 BC
Ashoka dies and is succeeded by Kunala.
230 BC
Simuka declares independence from Mauryan rule and establishes the Satavahana Empire.
200 BC
Kuninda Kingdom is established.
200 BC
Tholkappiyam describes the grammar and morphology of Tamil; it is the oldest existing Tamil grammar (dates vary between 200 BCE and 100 CE). (to 100 BC)
184 BC
The Mauryan Empire, which shrunk considerably, collapses after its emperor Brihadrata is assassinated by his general Pushyamitra Shunga. Pushyamitra Shunga then establishes the Shunga dynasty.
180 BC
Establishment of the Indo-Greek kingdom.
80 BC
Establishment of the Indo-Scythian kingdom.
65 BC
The Pandyan king sends ambassadors to the Greek and Roman lands.
57 BC
Beginning of Vikram Era
10
Establishment of the Indo-Parthian kingdom.
35
Western Satraps formed.
68
Establishment of the Kushan empire by Kujula Kadphises.
78
Gautamiputra Satkarni becomes Satavahana emperor and starts Shalivahana era calendar after defeating Scythian king Maues.
90
Sung jae has established kingdom.
240
Sri-Gupta starts the Gupta Empire in Magadha, with its capital in Pataliputra
320
Chandragupta I ascends the Gupta throne.
335
Samudragupta ascends the Gupta throne and expands the empire.