Hindu

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1500 BCE
Composition begins on The Vedas
300 BCE
Composition of epic poem Ramayana
c. 200-c. 300
Hindu laws codified
c. 400
Revival of Hinduism under Gupta patronage
c. 400
Hinduism is spread to SE Asia by Hindu traders
510
Earliest record of the Hindu practice of suttee
758
Rock-cut Hindu temples at Ellora commissioned by Krishnaraja I
788
Birth of Sankaracharya, Hindu guru and scholar
c. 900
Jain temples created alongside Hindu and Buddhist ones at Ellora
c. 950
Queen Sembiyan Madhavi spends her life building Hindu temples and monasteries
c. 1000-c. 1150
Construction of Angkor Wat
1346
City of Vijayanagar becomes center of a Hindu empire
1542
Mogul emperor Akbar beings religious reforms and efforts to unite Muslims and Hindus
1605
Jahangir becomes emperor of India; follows both Muslim and Hindu teachers
1669
Mogul emperor Aurangzeb outlaws Hindu worship in India
1927
Indian high court recognizes Jainism as a distinct religion, rather than a sect of Hinduism
1947
Partitioning of India and Pakistan as separate Hindu and Muslim states
1948
Assassination of Gandhi by a Hindu fanatic
1956
Hindu leader B.R. Ambedkar converts to Buddhism along with 350,000 followers, creating the Neo-Buddhist movement
1998
Hindu nationalist party BJP wins national election in India
2001
The Kumbh Mela festival becomes the largest religious gathering in history
11 Mar 2021
Mahashivaratri
28 Mar 2021-
29 Mar 2021
Holi
4 Nov 2021
Diwali
1 Mar 2022
Mahashivaratri
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