Founding of the Maurya Empire
Chandragupta unites most of India for the first time
Chandragupta Maurya, aided by his adviser Chanakya, overthrew the Nanda dynasty and took Pataliputra. He built the first empire to unite most of the Indian subcontinent.
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India's Maurya Empire arose about a year after Alexander the Great died — and its founder, Chandragupta, is said to have met Alexander himself.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 331 BC Battle of Gaugamela — 9 years earlier
- 323 BC Death of Alexander the Great — 1 year earlier
Africa
- 331 BC Founding of Alexandria — 9 years earlier
Americas
- c. 300 BC Maya script — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Aristotle (aged 62)
- Mencius (aged 50)
- Chandragupta Maurya (aged 18)
- Euclid (aged 3)
- Olympias (aged 53)
- Zhuangzi (aged 47)
- Ptolemy I Soter (aged 45)
- Pytheas (aged 28)
- Qu Yuan (aged 18)