Some Important Dates in Ancient Indian History

Some Important Dates in Ancient Indian History

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Upanishadic thinkers, the Jaina teacher Mahavira and the
  Buddha (about 2500 years ago).
• Writing down of the Jaina texts (about 1500 years ago)
• Beginning of the Mauryan empire (more than 2300 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)