User:StartGrammarTime/Indian History Timeline

This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. also see the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and Years in India.



Pre-90th century BCE

 * 4,000,000 – 100,000 BCE
 * Tools crafted by proto-humans that have been dated back two million years have been discovered in the northwestern subcontinent. The earliest archaeological site in the subcontinent is the palaeolithic hominid site in the Soan River valley. Soanian sites are found in the Sivalik region across what are now India, Pakistan, and Nepal.   Some of the Bhimbetka rock shelters were inhabited by Homo erectus more than 100,000 years ago.


 * Madrasian culture sites have been found in Attirampakkam (Attrambakkam, 13.23056°N, 79.88889°W), which is located near Chennai (formerly known as Madras), Tamil Nadu. Thereafter, tools related to this culture have been found at various other locations in this region. Bifacial handaxes and cleavers are typical assemblages recovered of this culture. Flake tools, microliths and other chopping tools have also been found. Most of these tools were composed of the metamorphic rock quartzite. The stone tool artifacts in this assemblage have been identified as a part of the second inter-pluvial period in India.


 * Evidence for presence of Hominins with Acheulean technology in Tamil Nadu between 150,000–100,000 BCE.


 * Technology similar to contemporary artifacts found used by Homo sapiens in Africa found in Jwalapuram around 74000 BCE.


 * Paleolithic industries were present in Tamil Nadu, a state in South India, around 30,000 BCE.

90th–50th century BCE

 * 9,000 BCE
 * Early Neolithic culture with first confirmed semi-permanent settlements appeared 11000 years ago in the Bhimbetka rock shelters in modern Madhya Pradesh, India. Some of the Stone Age rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters are approximately 30,000 years old.
 * The ancient history of the region includes some of Indian subcontinent's oldest settlements and some of its major civilisations.

50th–40th century BCE

 * 4000 BCE
 * Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) begins. The Indus people used an early form of Indus signs, now called Indus script.
 * Over the course of the next 1000–1500 years, inhabitants of the Indus Valley developed new techniques in handicraft (carnelian products, seal carving) and metallurgy (copper, bronze, lead, and tin) had elaborate urban planning, baked brick houses, efficient drainage systems, water supply systems, and clusters of large non-residential buildings. The civilization depended significantly on trade; it was the first civilization to use wheeled transport in the form of bullock carts, and also used boats.

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14th century BCE
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13th century BCE
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12th century BCE
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11th century BCE
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10th century BCE
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9th century BCE
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8th century BCE
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