580 Pythagoras 582-507
570
560
550
540
530
520
510
500
490
480
470 Socrates, 469-399
460
450
440 Peloponnesian war, 431-404
430 Plato, 427-347
420
410
400
390 Aristotle, 384-322
380
370
360
350
340
330
320
310
300 Euclid
290
280
270
260
250
240
230
220
210
200
190
180
170
160
150
140
130
120
110
100 Julius Caesar, 100-44
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0 Jesus of Nazareth, 0-33
10
20
30 Nero, 37-68
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
110
120
130
140
150
160
170
180
190
200
210
220
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260
270
280
290
200
310
320
330
340
350
360
370
380
390
400
410
420
430 Earliest hospital, 437
(Sri Lanka)
440
450
460
470 Fall of the Western Roman
Empire, 476
480
490
500
510
520
530
540
550
560
570 Mohammed, 570-632
580
590
600
610
620
630
640
650
660
670
680
690
700
710
720
730
740
750
760
770
780
790
800
810
820
830
840
850
860 First printed book, 868
(Diamond Sutra, China)
870
880
890
900
910
920
930
940
950
960
970
980
990
1000
1010
1020
1030
1040
1050
1060 Norman invasion, 1066
1070
1080
1090 first Crusades 1096-1099
1100
1110
1120
1130
1140
1150
1160
1170
1180
1190
1200
1210 Magna Carta 1215
Jenghiz Kahn invades China, 1211
1220 Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
Clement of Alexandria, ?-1227
1230
1240
1250 Marco Polo 1254-1323
1260
1270
1280
1290
1300
1310
1320
1330
1340
1350
1360
1370
1380
1390 J.Gutenberg, 1398-1468
1400
1410
1420 Torquemada, 1420-1498
1430
1440
1450 Leonardo DaVinci, 1452-1519
Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
1460
1470
1480 Martin Luther 1483-1546
1490 Colombus thinks he found India
1500
1510 Protestentism, 1517
1520
1530
1540
1550
1560 Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Galileo, 1564-1642
1570
1580
1590
1600
1610
1620 Pilgrims to America 1620
1630 Galileo recants, 1633
1640
1650
1660
1670
1680
1690 J. S. Bach, 1695-1750
1700
1710
1720
1730
1740
1750
1760 Napolian Bonaparte, 1769-1821
1770 American independance, 1776
1780 French revolution, 1789-1802
1790 Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky,
1793-1856
1800
1810
1820
1830
1840
1850
1860 Civil War, 1861-1865
1870
1880 A. Hitler, 1889-1945
1890
1900
1910 WWI, 1914-1919
Russian revolution, 1917-1922
1920
1930
1940 Pearl Harbor, 1941
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990 Pope pardons Galileo, 1995
2000
Many of these dates are approximate. Many are disputed. Then again, I've been known to make mistakes. If any dates are off by more than a few years, please let me know. Thank you.
date ............... Buddhist events
570 Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, April 8th 566 BCE
560
550
540 Enlightenment, Dec. 8th 531
530
520
510
500
490 Parinirvana, Feb. 15th 486
1st Council at Rajagrha, 483
480
470
460
450
440 2nd Council under King Kalasoka, 383 at Vesali
430
420
410
400
390
380
370
360
350
340
330
320
310
300
290
280 King Asoka, 273-232
270
260
250 Council of Asoka. Sthaviravadins and Mahasanghikas split
Tripitaka composed
240
230
220
210
200
190
180
170
160 Prajnaparamita codified
150
140
130
120
110
100
90
80 Pali Cannon written
70
60
50
40
30 4th council in Sri Lanka, Tripitaka codified. 25
20
10
0
10
20
30
40
50
60 Emperor Ming-ti introduces Buddhism to China 67
70
80
90
100 Nagarjuna around this time 100-220?
110
120
130
140
150
160
170
180
190
200
210
220
230
240
250
260
270
280
290
200
310
320
330
340
350
360
370
380 Kumarajiva 384-418
390
400 Kumarajiva founds San-Lun school from Madhyamika 402
410 Asangha 410-500
420 Vasubandhu 420-500 founder Vijnanavada or Yogacara
430
440
450
460
470 Bodhidharma 470-534
480
490
500
510
520 Bodhidharma goes to China
530 Chih-i 531-597
540 Paramartha arrives in China 549
550 Buddhism reaches Japan 552
560
570 Shotoku Taishi 574-622
Emperor Wu supresses Buddhism 577
580 Shotoku Taishi builds Horyuji temple in Japan (?)
590 Hsuan Tsang, 596-664
600 Doshaku
610 Shan-tao 613-681
620 Sanron school in Japan, 625
630 6th Patriarch, Hui-neng 637-712
640
650
660
670
680 Divakara brings 40 vol. Kegon text to China 680
690
700 Paramiti translates Surangama Sutra to Chinese, 705
710
720
730
740 first Tibetan monastery, Padmasambhava 748
750
760 Dengyo Daishi (Saicho) 767-822 Introduced Tendai to Japan 803
770 Kobo Daishi (Kukai) 774-835 introduced Shingon to Japan
780
790
800
810 Great Council in Tibet 817
820
830
840
850
860
870
880
890
900 Genshin
910
920
930
940
950
960
970 Atisa, 979-1054
980
990
1000
1010 India invades Sri Lanka, line of transmission for
nuns broken
1020
1030
1040 Kadampa school in Tibet, by Atisha 1042
1050
1060
1070 Sakya school in Tibet 1071
1080
1090
1100
1110
1120
1130 Honen Shonin , founder Jodo, 1133-1212
1140
1150
1160 Council of Anuradhapura, Ceylon
1170 Shinran Shonin (Matsuwara) 1173-1268
Nembutsu school founded by Honen 1175
1180
1190
1200 Dogen, 1200-1253
1210
1220 Nichiren Shonin 1222-1282
1230
1240
1250
1260
1270
1280
1290
1300
1310
1320
1330
1340
1350
1360 Gelugpa school in Tibet 1360
1370
1380
1390
1400
1410 Rennyo Shonin 1415-1499
1420
1430
1440
1450
1460
1470
1480
1490
1500
1510
1520
1530
1540
1550
1560
1570 Nobunaga attacks Hongwanji
1580
1590
1600
1610
1620
1630
1640
1650
1660
1670
1680 Hakuin, father of modern Rinzai Zen, 1685-1768
1690
1700
1710
1720
1730
1740
1750 ten Thai Bhikkhus bring Thai Sangha to Sri Lanka
1760
1770
1780
1790
1800 Amarapura sect to Sri Lanka 1801
Ramanya sect to Sri Lanka
1810
1820
1830
1840
1850
1860 Meiji restoration- Buddhism banned 1867
1870 5th council Mandalay Burma
1880 San Francisco Buddhist Church founded
1890 Maha Bodhi Society, 1891
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950 6th council, Rangoon. Translations started. 1954-1956
1960
1970
1980
1990 Founding of Dragon's Gate Temple, June 1st, 1997
2000
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