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Gupta Empire

ancient Indian empire (c. 3rd century CE–575 CE)

24 dated entries naming Gupta Empire, drawn from 20 separate years between 240 CE and 550 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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3rd century

  • 240Maharaja Sri-Gupta becomes ruler of the Gupta Empire (approximate date).source
  • 280The Gupta Empire (India) is founded (approximate date).source
  • 280Approximate date – Gupta, founder of the Gupta Empiresource

4th century

  • 319Ghatotkacha, Indian ruler of the Gupta Empiresource
  • 335Samudragupta succeeds Chandragupta I as king of the Gupta Empire.source
  • 341Samudragupta of the Gupta Empire, during a decade, extends his kingdom and his influence. A pillar found at Allahabad sings his praises.source
  • 348In India, Samudragupta of the Gupta Empire defeats Rudrasena in battle.source
  • 375Emperor Chandragupta II becomes ruler of the Gupta Empire (India). He is the son of Samudragupta the Great and retains his reign by an aggressive expansionist policy.source
  • 375Samudragupta, Indian emperor of the Gupta Empiresource
  • 380Samudragupta, ruler of the Gupta Empiresource
  • 388Emperor Chandragupta II, ruler of the Gupta Empire, begins a war against the Shaka Dynasty in West India.source
  • 390Rudrasena II of Vakataka succeeds his father, Prithivishena I. In the same year he marries Prabhavatigupta, daughter of the Gupta king Chandragupta II.source
  • 395King Rudrasimha III, ruler of the Western Satraps (India), is defeated by the Gupta Empire.source

5th century

  • 413Kumaragupta I succeeds his father Chandragupta II as emperor of the Gupta Empire (India).source
  • 413Chandragupta II, emperor of the Gupta Empiresource
  • 415Chandragupta II, emperor of the Gupta Empire (India) (probable date)source
  • 420The Gupta Empire reaches its peak territorial extent under Chandragupta II and his son Kumaragupta I.source
  • 455Skandagupta succeeds Kumaragupta I as ruler of the Gupta Empire (India). During his reign he crushes the Hun invasion; however, the expense of the wars drains the empire's resources and contributes to its decline.source
  • 455Kumaragupta I, ruler of the Gupta Empire (India)source
  • 467Skandagupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire (India)source
  • 474A statue of a Standing Buddha from Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, (during the Gupta period) is made. It is now kept at the Sarnath Museum in India (source states the creation date as 1st to 2nd century BCE).source
  • 475A Bodhisattva (detail of a wall painting in the Ajanta Caves) in Maharashtra (India) of the Gupta period) is made (approximate date).source
  • 480Budhagupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire, establishes diplomatic relations with the Kannauj Kingdom and drives the Huns out of the fertile plains of northern India.source

6th century

  • 550The Gupta Empire falls; India is again ruled by regional kingdoms (approximate date).source

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