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)
