History-One Liners

 

The major events and respective timelines of India-

 

 

1-1500 to 1000 BCE- Early Vedic Period

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2-1200 BCE- Rigveda Period

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3-1000 BCE- Iron Age of India

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4-700 BCE- Age of Upanishads

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5-599 BCE- Birth of Mahavira (24th Tirthankar of Jainism)

 

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6-558–491 BCE- Bimbisara (known as Srenika) founded Haryanka dynasty.

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7-492–460 BCE- Period of Ajatshatru (son of Bimbisara)

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8-350 BCE- Panini ( is a resident of Gandhara). He wrote Ashtadhyayi (Sanskrit Grammar book).

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9-321 BCE- Chandragupta Maurya established Mauryan Empire in Magadha

10-300 BCE- Chola dynasty (in South India)

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11-268–232 BCE- Period of the Great Ashoka (son of Bindusara)

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12-260 BCE- Ashoka inscribed the Edicts of Ashoka (written in Brahmi script)

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13-232 BCE- Ashoka died (Kunala, his son, succeeded)

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14-184 BCE- Establishment of the Shunga dynasty by Pushyamitra Shunga

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15-78 BCE- Beginning of Saka era

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16-57 BCE- Beginning of Vikram Era

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