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

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