Preceden

Buddhism - Hinduism

Hinduism

Indus Valley civilization

3000 bc - 1500 bc

Composition of the Rig-veda

2300 bc - 1200 bc

Migration of Āryans

1600 bc - 1000 bc

Composition of the Upaniśads

800 bc - 200 bc

Vardhamana Mahavira, founder of Jainism

540 bc - 468 bc

Composition of the Bhagavad-gītā

200 bc - 100 ad

Muslim capital established at Delhi

1192 ad

Destruction of Buddhism in India

1200 ad

Vasco da Gama lands on India’s west coast

1498 ad

British rule in India

1757 ad - 1947 ad

Defeat of Bengali Muslim rulers by British

1757 ad

Indian independence and partition

1947 ad

Buddhism

Gautama, the Buddha

563 bc - 483 bc

First Buddhist Council

486 bc

Reign of King Asoka in India; introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka (Ceylon

269 bc - 238 bc

Emergence of the Mahayana in India

1 ad - 101 ad

Introduction of Buddhism to China

101 ad - 201 ad

Destruction of Buddhism in India

1200 ad

Birth of Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk School in Tibet

1357 ad

Chinese occupation of Tibet

1951 ad

Axial Age

Homer

1000 bc - 800 bc

Composition of the Upaniśads

800 bc - 200 bc

Zarathustra in Persia

628 bc - 551 bc

Elijah-Isaiah Prophets of Israel

620 bc - 500 bc

Gautama, the Buddha

563 bc - 483 bc

Confucius

551 bc - 479 bc

Laozi

550 bc - 300 bc

Parmenides, Heraclitus, Plato

500 bc - 400 bc

Thucydides, Archimedes

460 bc - 395 bc