2500 BC Dravidian civilization
1500 BC Aryans invade India and conquered the Dravidians
1400 BC The Vedas, the Hindu scripture, was written
800 BC 800-600, the Sacred scripture, the Upanishads written
518 BC Persians conquered Pakistan
500 BC Buddhism was founded in India by Siddhartha Guatama
500 BC Jainism was founded in India by Mahavira Jains
326 BC Alexander the Great moved into India
324 BC Mauyan Empire was established Chandragupta Maurya including Afghanistan and parts of central Asia
272 BC Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, becomes 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 Arabia
1206 Qutb ub-din Aybak establishes the Delhi Sultanate
1398 Timur conquered India resulting in the decline of the Delhi Sultanate
1498 Vasco Da Gama becomes the first European explorer to reach India
1500s Christianity was introduced to India by the Europeans and in the early 1500s Sikhism was founded by Nana
1526 Babur established the Mughal Empire
1600 Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the East India Company established trading posts in Bombay, Calcutta, Madras
1628 Shah Jahan, the ruler of the Mughal Empire, builds 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, leads forces which defeated the Mughal governor of Bengal
1774 Warren Hastings appointed the first governor of India by the East India Company
1857 The Sepoy Rebellion
1858 The British government ruled India via an Indian Viceroy called the British Raj
1885 Indian National Congress founded as forum for emerging nationalist feeling