500,000 Years: Pre-historic and Proto-historic existance of early mankind
2500 – 1500 B.C.: Harappa Culture
2500 – 700 B.C.: Rigvedic Aryan Civilization
599 B.C.: Jainism
567 – 487 B.C.: Budha
550 B.C – 600 A.D.: Budhism remained prevelent
550 – 515 B.C.: Persian Invasion to west of Indus River
326 B.C.: Alexander’s Invasion
322 – 298 B.C.: Chandra Gupta Maurya Period
273 – 232 B.C.: Ashoka’s Period
125 – 160 B.C.: Rise of the Sakas (Scythians known as Jat ancestors)
2 B.C.: Beginning of Rule of the Sakas.
45 – 180 A.D.: Rule of the Kushanas
320 – 550 A.D.: Gupta Empire
500 A.D.: Huns Invasion
510 – 650 A.D.: Vardhanas Era
647 – 1192 A.D.: Rajput Period
713 – 1300 A.D.: Muslim Invaders (Turks and Arabs) famous invaders like Mahmud Gori and Mahmud Ghazni
8th Century A.D.: Arabs capture Sind and Multan
1450 – 1700 A.D.: Mughal Rulers
1469 – 1539 A.D.: Guru Nanak Dev Ji (1st Sikh Guru)
1539 – 1675 A.D.: Period of 8 Sikh Gurus from Guru Angad Dev Ji to Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji
1675 – 1708 A.D.: Guru Gobind Singh Ji (10th Sikh Guru)
1699 A.D.: Birth of the Khalsa
1708 – 1715 A.D.: Conquests of Banda Bahadur
1716 – 1759 A.D.: Sikh struggle against Moghul Governors
1739 A.D.: Invasion of Nadir Shah
1748 -1769 A.D.: Ahmed Shah Abdali’s nine invasions
1762 A.D.: 2nd Holocaust (Ghalughara) from Ahmed Shah’s 6th invasion
1764 – 1799 A.D.: Rule of the Sikh Misls
1799 – 1839 A.D.: Rule by Maharaja Ranjit Singh
1849 A.D.: Annexation of Punjab
1849 – 1947 A.D.: British Rule
1947 A.D.: Partition of India thus Punjab into 2 parts the Eastern part became the Indian Punjab and the Western part the Pakistan Punjab
1966 A.D.: Punjab in India divided into 3 parts on Linguistic basis
(Haryana, Himachal and Punjabi suba the present Punjab)
1984 A.D.: Operation Blue Star and its aftermath