Pushyamitra Shunga overthrows the Mauryas
The last Maurya is murdered, ending India's first great empire
Around 185 BC the Brahmin general Pushyamitra Shunga assassinated Brihadratha, the last Maurya emperor, and founded the Shunga dynasty. Ashoka's empire had already broken up, and the Shungas ruled only the Ganges valley and central India; Buddhist texts remember Pushyamitra as a persecutor of Buddhism.
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Europe
- 168 BC The Battle of Pydna — 17 years later
Middle East
- 190 BC The Battle of Magnesia — 5 years earlier
- 167 BC The Maccabean Revolt — 18 years later
Africa
- 196 BC The Memphis decree of the Rosetta Stone — 11 years earlier
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