Landmark South Asia trade
Calcutta (Kolkata)
1690 CE – still standing
Founded as a British East India Company trading post, grew into the commercial capital of British India and gateway to Bengal's wealth
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Kolkata on Wikipedia.
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Elsewhere in South Asia at the time
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Landmark · South Asia
Taktsang Palphug Monastery
1692 CE – still standing
Polity · South Asia
Tibet
Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CEConflict · South Asia
Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency
1967 CE – 2026 CE
Landmark · South Asia
Faisal Mosque
1986 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Hindu kingdoms
Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE
Conflict · South Asia
2025 India–Pakistan Conflict
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Landmark · South Asia
Taj Mahal
1632 CE – still standing
Polity · South Asia
India
Attested 1783 CE – 2026 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1690 CE and 2026 CE.
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Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- KolkataNalGup20 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Paro TaktsangOriginal: Nina R from Africa Derivative work: UnpetitproleX · CC BY 2.0
- TibetUniversity of Texas Libraries · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Faisal MosqueAli Mujtaba · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2025 India–Pakistan conflictGrubb at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Taj MahalYann; edited by Jim Carter · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of IndiaGovernment of India · Public domain
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