{"slug": "chandragupta-maurya", "label": "Chandragupta Maurya", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandragupta_Maurya", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188541", "qid": "Q188541", "description": "founder of the Maurya Empire (350–295 BCE)", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [-339, -296], "span_label": ["340 BCE", "297 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "seleucus-i-nicator", "label": "Seleucus I Nicator", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "maurya-empire", "label": "Maurya Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "persia", "label": "Persia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jainism", "label": "Jainism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -339, "year_label": "340 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1239354213#Births", "title": "340 BC", "revid": 1239354213, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -321, "year_label": "322 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Chandragupta Maurya captures Magadha: Chandragupta, with the help of Chanakya (Kautilya), who is also known as the Indian Machiavelli, destroys the Nanda rulers of Magadha and establishes the Maurya Empire. It is said that Chanakya met Chandragupta in the Vindhya forest, after being insulted by the Nanda king.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1316405653#India", "title": "322 BC", "revid": 1316405653, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -320, "year_label": "321 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan empire, establishes himself as the king of Magadha.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359962346#India", "title": "321 BC", "revid": 1359962346, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -304, "year_label": "305 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus, former officer of Alexander the Great, considers himself emperor of Persia. He attempts to recover lands taken by Chandragupta that had been a part of Alexander's Empire. Seleucus establishes Seleucia on the Tigris River as his capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1225162735#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "305 BC", "revid": 1225162735, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -303, "year_label": "304 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Mauryan emperor Chandragupta defeats Seleucus I Nicator as he tries to invade India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355692793#India", "title": "304 BC", "revid": 1355692793, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -302, "year_label": "303 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus I Nicator expands his kingdom throughout Persia as far east as India, but his advance is eventually halted by Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Maurya dynasty of India. In a pact concluded by the two leaders, Seleucus agrees to territorial concessions in exchange for 500 war-trained elephants.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172932#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "303 BC", "revid": 1354172932, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -297, "year_label": "298 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Bindusara succeeds his father Chandragupta Maurya as emperor of the Mauryan Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129361#India", "title": "298 BC", "revid": 1350129361, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -296, "year_label": "297 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Chandragupta Maurya goes to Sravana Belagola, near Mysore, to live in the way of Jains.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129350#India", "title": "297 BC", "revid": 1350129350, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -296, "year_label": "297 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Chandragupta Maurya, Emperor of the Maurya Empire in India, r. 322–297 BC (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129350#Deaths", "title": "297 BC", "revid": 1350129350, "section": "Deaths"}}]}