Some Important Buddhist dates

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1. 563/560 b.c. birth of Siddartha Gautama in Kapilavastu (present day Lumbini), near the Nepali/Indian border, six kilometres within present day Nepal
2. 483/480 b.c. parinirvana of Siddartha Gautama Shakyamuni and first council at Rajagrha
3. 383 b.c. ??? secound council at Vaisali
4. 327-324 b.c. Alexander's Indian expedition
5. c. 317 b.c. founding of Mauryan empire by Chandragupta Maurya
6. 268-233 b.c. Ashoka Maurya rules from Burma to Iran and from Nepal to South India
7. c. 246 b.c. Mahendra in Ceylon
8. c. 185 b.c. death of the last Mauryan ruler
9. c. 180-55 b.c. Indo-Greeks rulers in the North-West of India (Gandhara, present day Afghanistan and Pakistan)
10. 155-130 b.c. rule of the Indo-Greek Menander (Milinda)
11. 25-320 A.D. Kushan empire
12. 65 A.D. Buddhism in China
13. 1st/2nd century A.D.??? : the "Second Buddha" Nagarjuna
14. 320-490 A.D. Gupta empire
15. 4th century A.D. Buddhism in Korea, Indonesia
16. 5th century A.D. Buddhism in Borneo
17. 6th century A.D. Buddhism in Japan
18. 7th century A.D. Buddhism in Tibet
19. 606-647 A.D. Rule of Harsha in India
20. 632 A.D. the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo send his minister to India to study Sanskrit and Buddhism
21. 740-786 A.D. King Trisong Detsen calls Shantarakshita to Tibet
22. 787 A.D. foundation of Samye, first official Buddhist monastery in Tibet, by Padmasambhava (the Nying-ma-pa lineage)
23. 9th century A.D. Angkor Wat (Buddhism in Cambodia and South-Est Asia)
24. 1029-1042 A.D. Atisha Dipamkara Srijnana in Tibet (the Kadampa lineage)
25. 1040-1123 A.D. Milarepa (the Ka-gyu-pa lineage)
26. 1280-1368 A.D. Mongol (Yuan) dynasty in China, supremacy of the Sa-kya-pa lineage in Tibet
27. 1280-1295 A.D. Kubilai Khan rules over China (Marco Polo travels to China from Venezia)
28. 1357-1419 A.D. Lama Je Tsong-kha-pa (Gelug-pa lineage)
29. July 6th, 1935 - birth in Amdo province of Tibet of His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, XIVth Dalai Lama
30. March 31st, 1959 - Tibetan uprising in Lhasa against the Han occupying army 

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