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Ondřej Žváček · CC BY 2.5
Landmark South Asia religious

Mount Kailash

3000 BCE – still standing

Sacred mountain in Tibet revered by Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Bon as the center of the universe — no one has ever climbed its summit

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Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

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Landmark · South Asia

Taj Mahal

1632 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Tibet

Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CE

Trade route · South Asia

Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia)

2600 BCE – 1900 BCE

Conflict · South Asia

Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency

1967 CE – 2026 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Taxila

600 BCE – 500 CE

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Trade route · South Asia

Grand Trunk Road

300 BCE

Conflict · South Asia

2025 India–Pakistan Conflict

2025 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

3000 BCE Dholavira 2500 BCE Mohenjo-daro 2400 BCE Lothal 600 BCE Taxila 563 BCE Lumbini

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing
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