The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.18

c5.18

| B.C. | |
| 3102 | Friday, February 18, the beginning of the Kaliyuga or Hindu astronomical era, on the 588,466th day of the Julian Period. It is often used in dates, and precedes the Vikrama Saṃvat by 3044 years and the Śaka era by 3179 years. |
| 3076 | K.Y. 26, Chaitra Śudi 1, initial date assigned to the Laukika or Saptarshi era, traditionally used in Kashmir. It reckons by cycles of a hundred years, and the first year of each coincides with the 27th current year of the Kaliyuga century, or the 47th of the Śakakāla, that is, nearly with the 25th year of an A.D. century.—BKR. 59. *Rājataranginī*, i, 52. IA. xx, 149. |
| 557 | Siddhārtha, afterwards Gautama the Buddha, born at Kapilavastu. |
| 528 | Siddhārtha leaves Kapilavastu and becomes an ascetic. |
| 527 | Death of Mahāvīra Vardhamāna Jñātaputra, founder of the Nirgrantha or Jaina sect, being 470 years before the Vikrama era according to the Śvetāmbara Jains, and 605 years before the |