🏛 The rise of Magadha
c. 600–321 BCE · 8 steps
From the sixteen Mahajanapadas to the first great empire: how one kingdom on the Ganga plain came to rule the north.
Stops on this tour
- c. 600 BCE — Rise of the sixteen Mahajanapadas
- c. 540 BCE — Bimbisara annexes Anga
- c. 492 BCE — Ajatashatru becomes king of Magadha
- c. 468 BCE — Ajatashatru defeats the Vajji confederacy
- c. 460 BCE — Pataliputra becomes Magadha's capital
- c. 413 BCE — Shishunaga dynasty replaces the Haryankas
- c. 345 BCE — Mahapadma Nanda founds the Nanda dynasty
- c. 321 BCE — Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nandas
The Macedonian invasion of 327–325 BCE, and how Chandragupta Maurya took over the northwest soon after.
Stops on this tour
- 327 BCE — Alexander crosses the Hindu Kush into Gandhara
- 326 BCE — Battle of the Hydaspes
- 326 BCE — Alexander's army mutinies at the Beas
- 325 BCE — Alexander's army sails down the Indus
- c. 317 BCE — Chandragupta takes the northwest from Alexander's satraps
- c. 303 BCE — Seleucid-Mauryan treaty
From Ashoka’s accession to the Kalinga War, his edicts across the empire and the spread of Buddhism to Sri Lanka.
Stops on this tour
- c. 268 BCE — Ashoka's accession
- c. 261 BCE — Kalinga War
- c. 260 BCE — Dhauli Rock Edicts
- c. 257 BCE — Ashoka's Major Rock Edicts inscribed
- c. 257 BCE — Kalsi Rock Edict
- c. 250 BCE — Third Buddhist Council at Pataliputra
- c. 249 BCE — Ashoka visits Lumbini
- c. 247 BCE — Mahinda brings Buddhism to Sri Lanka
- c. 232 BCE — Death of Ashoka
From Panipat to the death of Aurangzeb: the battles, conquests and buildings of the great Mughals.
Stops on this tour
- 1526 — First Battle of Panipat
- 1527 — Battle of Khanwa
- 1540 — Battle of Kannauj
- 1555 — Humayun recovers Delhi (Battle of Sirhind)
- 1556 — Second Battle of Panipat
- 1568 — Akbar takes Chittorgarh
- 1571 — Fatehpur Sikri founded
- 1573 — Akbar conquers Gujarat
- 1580 — Akbar organises the empire into subahs
- 1586 — Mughals annex Kashmir
- 1653 — Taj Mahal completed
- 1658 — Aurangzeb becomes emperor
- 1687 — Mughals annex Golconda
- 1707 — Death of Aurangzeb
From the annexation of Awadh to Meerut, Delhi and Gwalior: the great uprising against Company rule.
Stops on this tour
- 1856 — Awadh annexed
- 1857 — Mangal Pandey's attack at Barrackpore
- 1857 — Revolt of 1857 begins at Meerut
- 1857 — Rebels proclaim Bahadur Shah Zafar emperor
- 1858 — Rani Lakshmibai falls at Gwalior
From the founding of the Congress to Independence, Partition and the Constitution — the freedom struggle on the map.
Stops on this tour
- 1885 — Indian National Congress founded
- 1905 — Partition of Bengal
- 1916 — Lucknow Pact
- 1917 — Champaran Satyagraha
- 1919 — Jallianwala Bagh massacre
- 1922 — Chauri Chaura incident
- 1929 — Purna Swaraj resolution at Lahore
- 1930 — Salt March to Dandi
- 1942 — Quit India Movement
- 1946 — Constituent Assembly first meets
- 1947 — Independence and Partition
- 1950 — Constitution comes into force
How these are made: a tour is a hand-picked sequence of events and sites already on YugMap. Each step shows that entry’s own description and result — the tours add no new claims. Some steps have only a title, date and place because that is all we record.
