The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.3

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| DATE. | EVENT. |
| **A. D.** | |
| 81 | Domitian, Roman emperor, acc. |
| 89–105 | Ho-ti, Chinese emperor. |
| *c.* 90 | Defeat of Kadphises II by Pan-chao. |
| 94 | Reduction of Kuchā and Kara-shahr by the Chinese under Pan-chao. |
| 96 | Nerva, Roman emperor, acc. |
| 98 | Trajan, Roman emperor, acc. |
| 99 | Arrival of Trajan in Rome. |
| *c.* 100 | Indian embassy to Trajan; Buddhist Council. |
| 105 | Overthrow by the Romans of the Nabataean kingdom of Petra in Arabia; rise of Palmyra. |
| *c.* 110 | Kadphises II died. |
| 116 | Conquest of Mesopotamia by Trajan. |
| 117 | Hadrian, Roman emperor, acc.; retrocession of Mesopotamia. |
| *c.* 120 | Kanishka Kushān, acc.; year 1 of his regnal era. |
| *c.* 123 | Sārnāth inscription of Kanishka (year 3). |
| 123–6 | Residence of Hadrian at Athens. |
| *c.* 130–52 | Kanishka's conquests in Chinese Turkestan.¹ |
| 131–6 | War of Hadrian with the Jews. |
| 138 | Mānikyāla inscription of Kanishka (year 18); Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor, acc. |
| *c.* 150 | Jūnāgaṛh inscription of Rudradāman, Western satrap. |
| *c.* 160 | Death of Kanishka; Huvishka Kushān, acc. as sovereign of whole empire. |
| 161 | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, acc. |
| 162–5 | Defeat of Parthian king, Vologeses III, by the Romans. |
| 175 | Eastern campaign of Marcus Aurelius. |
| 180 | Commodus, Roman emperor, acc. |
| *c.* 182 | Vasudeva Kushān, acc. |
| 192, 193 | Pertinax and Julianus, Roman emperors. |
| 193 | Septimius Severus, Roman emperor, acc. |
| *c.* 200 | Palmyra created a Roman colony. |
| 211 | Caracalla, Roman emperor, acc. |
| 216 | Parthian expedition of Caracalla. |
| 217 | Macrinus, Roman emperor, acc. |
| 218 | Elagabalus, Roman emperor, acc. |
| *c.* 220 | Death of Vasudeva Kushān. |
| *c.* 220–60 | Later Kushān kings. |
| 222 | Alexander Severus, Roman emperor, acc. |
| 226 | Foundation of Sassanian empire of Persia by Ardashīr or Artaxerxes I. |
| 260 | Defeat of Valerian, Roman emperor, by Sapor I. |
| 273 | Capture of Palmyra by Aurelian. |
| 284–305 | Diocletian, emperor. |
| 360 | Successful siege of Amida by Sapor II, with Kushān help. |