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