800-600 BC - the Upanishads wrote the sacred scripture. 500 BC - Jainism and Buddhism were founded. <span>326 BC - <span>Alexander the Great moved into India. </span></span><span>324 BC - <span>The Mauryan Empire was established </span></span><span>272 BC - <span>Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, becomes the emperor of India. </span></span><span>185 BC - <span>The Maurya Empire ended. </span></span><span>1500's - <span>Christianity was introduced to India by the Europeans and in the early 1500's Sikhism was founded by Nana. </span></span><span>1600 - <span>Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the East India Company established trading posts in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras </span></span><span>1857 - <span>The Sepoy Rebellion </span></span><span>1914 - 1918 - <span>World War 1 </span></span><span>1945 - <span>August: World War II ended when United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki </span></span><span>1947 - <span>British and Indian leaders agreed to divide the country into India and Pakistan, 15 August 1947 India became independent. </span></span><span>1948 - <span>30 January: Gandhi was assassinated </span></span><span>1950 - <span>26 January: A new Indian Constitution was ratified and Jawaharlal Nehru became the Indian first prime minister</span></span>
