SOME IMPORTANT DATES ( 6th NCERT BOOK )

􀁘 Beginning of the Gupta dynasty (about 1700 years ago)

􀁘 The rule of Harshavardhana (about 1400 years ago)


􀁘 beginning of stupa building (2300 years ago)

􀁘 Amaravati (2000 years ago)

􀁘 Kalidasa (1600 years ago)

􀁘 Iron pillar, Temple at Bhitargaon, Paintings at Ajanta, Aryabhata (1500 years ago)

􀁘 Durga temple (1400 years ago)


􀁘 Discovery of silk making (about 7000 years ago)

􀁘The Cholas, Cheras and Pandyas (about 2300 years ago)

􀁘 Growing demand for silk in the Roman Empire (about 2000 years ago)

􀁘 Kanishka, the Kushana ruler (about 1900 years ago)

􀁘 Fa Xian comes to India (about 1600 years ago)

􀁘 Xuan Zang comes to India, Appar composes devotional poems in praise of Shiva (about 1400 years ago)


􀁘 Beginning of the use of iron in the subcontinent (about 3000 years ago)

􀁘 Increase in the use of iron, cities, punch marked coins (about 2500 years ago)

􀁘 Beginning of the composition of Sangam literature (about 2300 years ago)

􀁘 Settlement in Arikamedu (between 2200 and 1900 years ago)


􀁘 Beginning of the Mauryan empire (more than 2300 years ago)


􀁘 Upanishadic thinkers, the Jaina teacher Mahavira and the Buddha (about 2500 years ago)

􀁘 Writing down of the Jaina texts (about 1500 years ago)


􀁘 New kinds of rajas (about 3000 years ago)

􀁘 Mahajanapadas (about 2500 years ago)

􀁘 Alexander’s invasion, composition of the Digha Nikaya (about 2300 years ago)

􀁘 End of the ganas or sanghas (about 1500 years ago)


􀁘 Beginning of the composition of the Vedas (about 3500 years ago)

􀁘 Beginning of the building of megaliths (about 3000 years ago)

􀁘 Settlement at Inamgaon (between 3600 and 2700 years ago)

􀁘 Charaka (about 2000 years ago)


􀁘 Cotton cultivation at Mehrgarh (about 7000 years ago)

􀁘 Beginning of cities (about 4700 years ago)

􀁘 Beginning of the end of these cities (about 3900 years ago)

􀁘 The emergence of other cities (about 2500 years ago)


􀁘 Beginnings of domestication (about 12,000 years ago)

􀁘 Beginning of settlement at Mehrgarh (about 8000 years ago)


􀁘 the Mesolithic period (12,000-10,000 years ago)

􀁘 the beginning of the Neolithic (10,000 years ago)


􀁘 the beginning of agriculture (8000 years ago)

􀁘 the first cities on the Indus (4700 years ago)

􀁘 cities in the Ganga valley, a big kingdom in Magadha (2500 years ago)

􀁘 the present (about 2000 AD/CE)