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TLaH Timelines Directions1. CW DAY #1: Research these dates using the internet. You need a
basic understanding of each date. You may use both scholarly and non-scholarly sources, but make sure your information is accurate. You may work on these in groups and share your notes.
2. HW Day #1: Individually select 10 dates you think are the most important to the development of the region. Write short justifications about why you have selected these events.
3. CW Day #2: Debate in your groups until you agree on 5-6 (depending on how many people you have in your group) events that everyone in your group agrees are the most essential to the development of the region. Assign 1 event to each person in your group.
4. HW Day #2: Write a justification of why this event is essential to the development of the region…Think: Because… Then…. So, ….No more than 10 sentences, No less than 4!!
5. CW Day #3: Peer-edit! Revise! Peer-edit again! Write a final draft!6. HW Day #3: Construct your timeline!
2500 B.C.E.
The Indus Valley civilization develops (the Dravidian civilization) around the valley of the Indus River
(now in Pakistan). Its trade is based on crops grown on the fertile river plains. It reaches the height of its power and is larger than any other ancient empire,
including that of Egypt.
2000 B.C.E.
The Indus Valley civilization collapses, possibly due to severe floods or a change in the course of the Indus
River.
1500 B.C.E.
The Aryan people, who come from the region between and including India and
Europe, invade India from the north. They spread through the Indus Valley and down
into the Ganges Valley.
324 B.C.E.
The Mauryan Empire was established by Chandragupta
Maurya including Afghanistan and parts of central Asia
50 B.C.E.
Trade flourishes between India and the Roman Empire. Romans eagerly buy Indian pearls, ivory, silk, spices, cloth
and precious stones.
320 - 550
After centuries of being split into small kingdoms and republics, India is ruled by the Gupta Empire.
Under the rule of the Gupta kings, Hinduism becomes the major religion of the empire. The
“Golden Age” of India is initiated with advancements in literature, art, architecture and
science flourish during this "classical age" of peace and prosperity.
1526
The rule of the Mogul Empire begins, unifying much of south India with the
north for the first time.
1600
Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the East India
Company established trading posts in Bombay, Calcutta, and
Madras
1600
Eager to gain access to India's spices, rice, silk, tea and jewels, Holland,
Great Britain and France establish key trading posts in India.
1915After studying law in Britain and fighting for Indian rights in South
Africa, Mohandas Gandhi launches a campaign of nonviolent resistance
against British rule in India. Gandhi is called Mahatma, meaning "Great
Soul."
1940
Muhammad Ali Jinnah demands that a new country be formed from India for the Muslims, which would be called
Pakistan.
1947End of British rule and partition of sub-continent into mainly Hindu India and
Muslim-majority state of Pakistan.
1966
Indira Gandhi (not related to Mahatma) and former Prime Minister Nehru’s
daughter becomes Prime Minister and one of the first women elected to lead
a nation.
1975Nearly 1,000 political opponents imprisoned and programme of
compulsory birth control introduced.
1984Troops storm Golden Temple - Sikhs' most holy shrine - to flush out Sikh
militants pressing for self-rule.
1999
Vajpayee makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to meet Premier Nawaz Sharif
and to sign bilateral Lahore peace declaration.
2001A high-powered rocket is launched,
propelling India into the club of countries able to fire big satellites deep into space.
2001 SeptemberUS lifts sanctions which it imposed against
India and Pakistan after they staged nuclear tests in 1998. The move is seen as a reward
for their support for the US-led anti-terror campaign.
2002
India successfully test-fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile - the Agni - off
its eastern coast.
2002Inter-religious bloodshed breaks out after 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya are killed in a train
fire in Godhra, Gujarat. More than 1,000 people, mainly Muslims, die in subsequent violence. Police
and officials blamed the fire on a Muslim mob, but a 2005 government investigation said it was an
accident. In 2012 a court convicts 32 people over the Naroda Patiya riots in Ahmedabad.
2002
UK, US urge their citizens to leave India and Pakistan, while maintaining
diplomatic offensive to avert war.
2002
Retired scientist and architect of India's missile programme APJ Abdul
Kalam is elected president.
2004
Surprise victory for Congress Party in general elections. Manmohan Singh is
sworn in as prime minister.
2004
India, along with Brazil, Germany and Japan, launches an application for a permanent seat on the UN Security
Council.
2006
US and India sign a nuclear agreement during a visit by US President George W Bush. The US gives India access to civilian nuclear technology while India
agrees to greater scrutiny for its nuclear programme.
2006
More than 180 people are killed in bomb attacks on rush-hour trains in Mumbai. Investigators blame Islamic
militants based in Pakistan.
2006
US President George W Bush approves a controversial law allowing India to buy US nuclear reactors and fuel for
the first time in 30 years.
2008
Following approval by the US Congress, President George W Bush signs into law a nuclear deal with
India, which ends a three-decade ban on US nuclear trade with Delhi.
2008
Nearly 200 people are killed and hundreds injured in a series of co-ordinated attacks by
gunmen on the main tourist and business area of India's financial capital Mumbai.
India blames militants from Pakistan for the attacks and demands that Islamabad act
against those responsible.
2008
India announces "pause" in peace process with Pakistan. Indian cricket
team cancels planned tour of Pakistan.
2009
India and Russia sign deals worth $700m, according to which Moscow
will supply uranium to Delhi.
2009
Pakistani, Indian premiers pledge to work together to fight terror
irrespective of progress on improving broader ties.
2009
A Dehli court rules that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not criminal, overturning a 148-year-
old colonial law.
2010
The sole surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Amir Qasab, is convicted of murder, waging war on
India and possessing explosives.
2010
Allahabad High Court rules that the disputed holy site of Ayodhya should be divided
between Hindus and Muslims; the destruction of a mosque on the site by Hindu
extremists in 1992 led to rioting in which about 2,000 people died.
2011
Prominent social activist Anna Hazare stages 12-day hunger strike in Delhi in
protest at state corruption.
2012
British author Sir Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at a literary
festival in India in response to threats from Islamic extremists who object to
his book The Satanic Verses.
2012
Police in Delhi arrest Abu Hamza, also known as Syed Zabiuddin - allegedly a
key figure in planning the 2008 Mumbai attacks
2012
Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole surviving gunman of the 2008
attacks in Mumbai, is executed in Pune prison. The Supreme Court upheld his
death sentence in August.
2013
A court sentences four men to death for the gang rape and murder of a
student in Delhi the previous December - a case that led to violent protests across India and new laws
against rape.
2013
The Supreme Court reverses a 2009 Delhi High Court order decriminalising homosexual acts, saying parliament,
not the courts, must resolve the issue.