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563 BCE
Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
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540 BCE
Life of Vardhamana Mahavira
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520 BCE
Invasion of India by Darius of Persia
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327 BCE
Invasion of India by Alexander of Macedon
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321 BCE
Mauryan Dynasty
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268 BCE
Reign of Ashoka Maurya
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182 BCE
Bactrian Rule in northern India
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1 CE
Kushan empire in northern India and central Asia
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78
Reign of Kushan emperor Kanishka
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320
Gupta Dynasty
