| Definition | Point on Timeline |
| Neolithic Revolution: Villages formed on Indus River | 3500-3000 BCE |
| Cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are inhabited | 2300 and 2000 BCE |
| Aryans invaded through Khyber Pass formed Indo-Aryan people | 1750-1500 BCE |
| Vedic Age. Indus Valley and Ganges Plains are settled; Hinduism begun. | 1500-1000 BCE |
| Indus Valley population increases | 1000-560 BCE |
| Siddharta Gautama born. Later forms Buddhism | 560 BCE |
| Jains formed | 500 BCE |
| Alexander the Great invades western and northern India | 326 BCE |
| Chandragypta seizes power, unifies N. India, began Mauryan dynasty | 300 BCE |
| Mauryan Empire | 200 BCE -- 320 AC/CE |
| Silk Road Trade | 184 BCE |
| Jesus of Nazereth | AD1 or 1CE |
| Asoka of Mauryan Empire united India except for extreme southern tip; converted to Buddhism | 300 BCE |
| Golden Age of Gupta; art and literature flourished | 320--520 AD/CE |
| Huns Invade | 455 AD/CE |
| Huns formed the rajput warrior caste | 650 AD/CE |
| Muslim Dominance of India | 1000 -- 1700s AD/CE |
| Mahmud of Ghazni invades northern India; Delhi becomes a sultanate; 1st muslim stronghold | 1000 AD/CE |
| Timur the lame (tamerlane) conquers Delhi sultanate | 1398 AD/CE |
| Mugal Empire | 1495 -- 1556 AD/CE |
| King Akbar of the Mogul Empire ruled India again | 1556 AD/CE |
| Aurangzle is Last of the Moguls | 1700s AD/CE |
| English Dominance of India | 1800 -- 1947 AD/CE |
| Gandhi killed | 1949 AD/CE |
| India, Pakistan, Bengladesh are all indpendent countries | 2006 AD/CE (today) |
