The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.3

c24.3

| YEAR B. C. | EVENT. |
| **326 or 325 . .** | **Chandragupta Maurya in his youth met Alexander the Great.** |
| **Sept. or Oct., 325** | **Alexander quitted India.** |
| **Feb., 324 . .** | **Alexander, while in Karmania, received news of the murder of his satrap Philippos, in India; and placed Eudēmos and Āmbhi, king of Taxila, in charge of the Indian provinces.** |
| **June, 323 . .** | **Death of Alexander at Babylon.** |
| **323–322 (possibly a year or two years earlier)** | **Revolt of Panjāb under Chandragupta Maurya and destruction of Nanda dynasty of Magadha; accession of Chandragupta Maurya as emperor of India.** |
| **321 . . .** | **Second partition of Alexander’s empire at Triparadeisos.** |
| **315 . . .** | **Seleukos Nikator compelled by Antigonos to retire to Egypt.** |
| **312 . . .** | **Recovery of Babylon by Seleukos.** |
| **Oct. 1, 212 .** | **Establishment of Seleukidan era.** |
| **306 . . .** | **Assumption by Seleukos of title of king.** |
| **305 or 304 .** | **Invasion of India by Seleukos.** |
| **303 . . .** | **Defeat of Seleukos by Chandragupta; treaty of peace; cession of a large part of Ariana by Seleukos.** |
| **303–301 .** | **March of Seleukos against Antigonos.** |
| **302 . . .** | **Megasthenes ambassador of Seleukos at Pātaliputra.** |
| **301 . . .** | **Defeat and death of Antigonos at Ipsos in Phrygia.** |
| **298 . . .** | **Accession of Bindusāra Amitraghāta as emperor of India.** |
| **c. 296 . .** | **Deïmachos ambassador of Seleukos at Pāṭaliputra.** |
| **285 . . .** | **Ptolemy Philadelphos, king of Egypt, acc.** |
| **280 . . .** | **Seleukos Nikator, king of Syria, d.; Antiochos Soter, his son, acc.** |
| **278 or 277 .** | **Antigonos Gonatas, king of Macedonia, grandson of Antiochos I, acc.** |
| **273 . . .** | **Alexander, king of Epirus, son of Pyrrhus, and opponent of Antigonos Gonatas, acc.** |
| **272 . . .** | **Accession of Asoka-vardhana as emperor of India.** |
| **269 . . .** | **Coronation (*abhisheka*) of Asoka.** |
| **264 . . .** | **Outbreak of First Punic War.** |
| **261 . . .** | **Conquest of Kaliṅga by Asoka; Antiochos Theos, king of Syria, son of Antiochos Soter, acc.** |
| **259 . . .** | **Asoka abolished hunting, instituted tours devoted to works of piety, and dispatched missionaries.** |
| **258 . . .** | **Magas, king of Cyrēnē, half-brother of Ptolemy Philadelphos, died; (?) Alexander, king of Epirus, died.** |
| **257 . . .** | **Minor Rock Edict I and Rock Edicts III and IV of Asoka, who instituted quinquennial official progresses for propagation of Law of Piety (*dharma*), and dedicated cave-dwellings at Barābar for the use of the Ājīvikas.** |