Create a timeline reviewing important historical events in colonial Indial.

800-600 BC - the Upanishads wrote the sacred scripture.

500 BC - Jainism and Buddhism were founded.

326 BC - Alexander the Great moved into India.

324 BC - The Mauryan Empire was established

272 BC - Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, becomes the emperor of India.

185 BC - The Maurya Empire ended.

1500's - Christianity was introduced to India by the Europeans and in the early 1500's Sikhism was founded by Nana.

1600 - Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the East India Company established trading posts in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras

1857 - The Sepoy Rebellion

1914 - 1918 - World War 1

1945 - August: World War II ended when United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1947 - British and Indian leaders agreed to divide the country into India and Pakistan, 15 August 1947 India became independent.

1948 - 30 January: Gandhi was assassinated

1950 - 26 January: A new Indian Constitution was ratified and Jawaharlal Nehru became the Indian first prime minister