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Mauryan empire

6 dated entries naming Mauryan empire, drawn from 6 separate years between 321 BCE and 195 BCE. 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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4th century BC

  • 321 BCEChandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan empire, establishes himself as the king of Magadha.source
  • 320 BCEBindusara, the heir to the throne of the Mauryan Empire, is born. (d. 272 BC)source

3rd century BC

  • 272 BCEBindusara, emperor of the Mauryan Empire (b. c. 320 BC)source
  • 271 BCEThe Mauryan empire annexes the southern kingdoms till the realms of the three crowned kings of Chola, Chera and Pandya.source
  • 261 BCEMauryan Emperor Ashoka wages a war against the independent kingdom of Kalinga, culminating in the Battle of the Dhauli Hills. In the aftermath, Kalinga is annexed into the Mauryan Empire, but the brutality of the war is believed to have led to Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism, as described in his many Edicts of Ashoka.source

2nd century BC

  • 195 BCEChang'an, the capital of China, is thought to become the largest city in the world at this time, taking over from Pataliputra, the capital of the Mauryan empire.source

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