1. c. 7000 BCE Farming begins at Mehrgarh
2. ★ c. 3300 BCE The Indus cities begin
3. ★ c. 2600 BCE Mohenjo-daro and Harappa at their height
4. c. 2500 BCE The Indus script
5. c. 2400 BCE Trade with Mesopotamia
6. c. 2100 BCE The water works of Dholavira
7. ★ c. 1900 BCE The Indus cities are abandoned
8. ★ c. 1500 BCE Indo-Aryan speakers arrive
9. ★ c. 1400 BCE The Rigveda is composed
10. c. 1000 BCE Iron and the move east
11. ★ c. 900 BCE The war remembered as the Mahabharata
12. c. 800 BCE The varna order hardens
13. ★ c. 700 BCE The Upanishads
14. c. 650 BCE Panini's grammar of Sanskrit
15. c. 600 BCE The sixteen mahajanapadas
16. ★ c. 563 BCE The Buddha is born at Lumbini
17. ★ c. 528 BCE Enlightenment at Bodh Gaya
18. c. 527 BCE Mahavira and Jainism
19. c. 500 BCE Sushruta and early surgery
20. ★ 326 BCE Alexander reaches the Beas
21. ★ 321 BCE Chandragupta founds the Mauryan Empire
22. 305 BCE Peace with Seleucus
23. c. 300 BCE The Arthashastra
24. ★ 261 BCE Ashoka's war in Kalinga
25. ★ c. 260 BCE The edicts of Ashoka
26. c. 250 BCE Buddhism is sent abroad
27. 185 BCE The Mauryas fall
28. c. 180 BCE The Indo-Greek kingdoms
29. c. 100 BCE Roman trade and the monsoon
30. c. 50 Christianity reaches the Malabar coast
31. c. 78 The Kushans under Kanishka
32. c. 100 Gandharan sculpture
33. c. 150 The Sangam poets of the Tamil country
34. ★ 320 The Gupta Empire founded
35. c. 400 Kalidasa
36. 405 Faxian reports on Gupta India
37. c. 450 The Ajanta caves painted
38. ★ 499 Aryabhata's astronomy
39. ★ c. 500 The decimal place value system
40. 528 The Huna invasions break the Guptas
41. 606 Harsha rules the north
42. 630 Xuanzang travels in India
43. ★ c. 650 Nalanda at its height
44. 712 The Arab conquest of Sindh
45. c. 750 The tripartite struggle
46. c. 788 Adi Shankara
47. c. 800 The Kailasa temple at Ellora
48. 985 Rajaraja Chola comes to the throne
49. 1010 The Brihadeeswarar temple completed
50. ★ 1025 Mahmud of Ghazni sacks Somnath
51. c. 1025 Chola fleets raid Srivijaya
52. 1030 Al-Biruni's book on India
53. c. 1120 Bhaskara II and the Lilavati
54. ★ 1192 The second battle of Tarain
55. ★ 1199 Nalanda is destroyed
56. ★ 1206 The Delhi Sultanate founded
57. 1231 The Qutb Minar completed
58. 1236 Razia Sultana takes the throne
59. 1292 The Mongols are held on the Indus
60. 1303 Alauddin Khalji's price controls
61. 1327 The capital is marched to Daulatabad
62. 1336 Vijayanagara is founded
63. 1398 Timur sacks Delhi
64. c. 1440 Kabir
65. ★ 1469 Guru Nanak is born
66. ★ May 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches Calicut
67. 1510 The Portuguese take Goa
68. ★ 21 April 1526 The first battle of Panipat
69. 1540 Sher Shah Suri interrupts the Mughals
70. ★ 1556 Akbar comes to the throne at thirteen
71. 1564 The jizya is abolished
72. 1571 Fatehpur Sikri built
73. 1576 The battle of Haldighati
74. 1582 The Din-i Ilahi
75. ★ 31 December 1600 The East India Company is chartered
76. 1612 The Company gets a factory at Surat
77. ★ 1631 The Taj Mahal begun
78. ★ 1658 Aurangzeb takes the throne
79. ★ 1674 Shivaji is crowned
80. 1679 The jizya returns
81. 1699 The Khalsa is founded
82. ★ 1707 Aurangzeb dies and the empire fractures
83. 1739 Nadir Shah sacks Delhi
84. ★ 23 June 1757 The battle of Plassey
85. 1761 The third battle of Panipat
86. ★ 1765 The Company takes the revenues of Bengal
87. ★ 1770 The great Bengal famine of 1770
88. 1784 The Asiatic Society founded
89. 1793 The Permanent Settlement
90. 1799 Tipu Sultan is killed at Seringapatam
91. 1818 The Marathas are defeated
92. 1829 Sati is banned
93. 1835 Macaulay's minute on education
94. 1849 The Punjab is annexed
95. 16 April 1853 The first railway
96. ★ 10 May 1857 The rebellion begins at Meerut
97. ★ 1858 The Company is abolished
98. 1861 The Indian Councils Act
99. 1876 Famine in the Deccan
100. ★ December 1885 The Indian National Congress
101. 1893 Vivekananda in Chicago
102. ★ 1905 The partition of Bengal
103. ★ 1906 The Muslim League founded
104. 1911 The capital moves to Delhi
105. ★ 1915 Gandhi returns from South Africa
106. ★ 13 April 1919 The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
107. ★ 1920 Non-cooperation
108. 1927 Ambedkar burns the Manusmriti
109. ★ March 1930 The Salt March
110. 1935 The Government of India Act
111. ★ March 1940 The Lahore Resolution
112. ★ August 1942 Quit India
113. 1943 The Bengal famine of 1943
114. August 1946 Direct Action Day
115. ★ 15 August 1947 Independence and partition
116. October 1947 The first war over Kashmir
117. ★ 30 January 1948 Gandhi is assassinated
118. 1948 The princely states are integrated
119. ★ 26 January 1950 The constitution comes into force
120. ★ 1951 The first general election
121. 1956 States reorganised on language
122. December 1961 Goa is annexed
123. ★ October 1962 The war with China
124. ★ 1966 The Green Revolution
125. ★ December 1971 The war that creates Bangladesh
126. May 1974 The first nuclear test
127. ★ June 1975 The Emergency
128. ★ 1984 Operation Blue Star and its aftermath
129. December 1984 The Bhopal gas disaster
130. ★ July 1991 The economy is opened
131. ★ December 1992 The Babri Masjid is demolished
132. ★ May 1998 Nuclear tests at Pokhran
133. 1999 The Kargil conflict
134. c. 2000 The software industry takes off
135. November 2008 The Mumbai attacks
136. September 2014 Mangalyaan reaches Mars
137. August 2023 Chandrayaan-3 lands near the lunar south pole
138. 2023 India becomes the most populous country