MANY PEOPLES FORGOT OUR HISTORY..... Concise History of India 2500 BC The Dravidian civilization 1500 BC The Aryans invaded India and conquered the Dravidians 1400 BC The Vedas, the Hindu scripture, was written 800-600 BC The sacred scripture, the Upanishads, was 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 and his Macedonian army moved into India 324 BC The Mauryan Empire was established by Chandragupta Maurya which included Afghanistan and parts of central Asia 272 BC Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, became 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 established the Delhi Sultanate 1398 Timur conquered India causing the decline of the Delhi Sultanate 1498 Vasco da Gama, of Portugal, became the first European explorer to reach India 1500 Christianity was introduced to India by the Europeans Early 1500s Sikhism was founded by Nana 1526 Babur established the massive Mughal Empire 1600 Queen Elizabeth I, of the United Kingdom, 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, built 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, led forces which defeated the Mughal governor of Bengal 1774 Warren Hastings was appointed the first governor general of India by the East India Company 1857 The Sepoy Rebellion 1858 The British government ruled India through 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 1885 The Indian National Congress was formed 1905 The British government divided Bengal into separate Hindu and Muslim sections 1914 - 1918 First World War 13 April 1919 The Amritsar Massacre 1920 Mohandas K. Gandhi became the leader of the Indian independence movement and the Indian National Congress 1935 The Government of India Act created a new constitution 3 September 1939 The United Kingdom declared war on Germany beginning World War II 1940 Muhammad Ali Jinnah demanded that a new country be formed from India for the Muslims, which would be called Pakistan 1939 - 1945 WW11 August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 World War II ended 1946 The British government agreed to grant India independence if they could agree on a form of government 16 August 1946 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 30 January 1948 Gandhi was assassinated 26 January 1950 A new Indian Constitution was ratified and Jawaharlal Nehru became the Indian first prime minister
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