Virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed. There are at least 14 independent sources from multiple authors within a century of the crucifixion of Jesus that survive
240 - 579 CE
The Mahabharatha, the epic poem that includes the Bhagavad Gita, narrates the events before, during, and after the Kurukshetra War, a war of succession between two groups of princely cousins, the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas.
The text of the Yoga Sūtras has been variously dated to be between 500 BCE and 450 CE, but latter dates are more commonly accepted by scholars. The Yoga Sutras is best known for its sutras on ashtanga yoga, eight elements of practice culminating in samadhi
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. ‘the awakened one’), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism
Adi Shankara was an Indian Vedic scholar-monk, philosopher, and teacher of Advaita Vedanta. He wrote influential commentaries on the Brahma sutras and other texts, and in recent times is often revered as the most important Indian philosopher
The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period from the egalitarian lifestyle of nomadic and semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers[1] to one of agriculture, settlement, establishment of cross-group organisations,...
(1500 - 500 BCE) The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.
Xianrendong cave pottery fragment, radiocarbon dated to c. 20,000 BP.
Spiritualism is a social religious movement popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, according to which an individual’s awareness persists after death and may be contacted by the living
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Sri Yukteswar is born as Priya Nath Karar in Serampore, West Bengal.
The British Raj was the period of rule by the British Crown over present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, lasting from 1858 to 1947.
Darwin’s book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.
Lahiri Mahasaya met Babaji in the mountains near Ranikhet.
The Theosophical Society, Founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and others, aimed to promote the “universal brotherhood of humanity without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste, or colour” and to “encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science”
Max Müller’s book Introduction to the Science of Religion is published. Müller was the first to use this phrase (Religionswissenschaft), that was later used extensively by Paramahansa Yogananda in his teachings. Müller is widely recognized as the “father of comparative religion”.
The New Thought movement (also Higher Thought) is a new religious movement that coalesced in the United States in the early 19th century
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century that enforced racial segregation.
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Paramahansa Yogananda is born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India
Swami Vivekananda visits America and speaks at the Parliament of the World’s Religions. He greets his audience with “Sisters and brothers of America!” and receives a two minute standing ovation.
Nicolas Notovitch publishes Life of Saint Issa.
J. Archibald Douglas, a professor at Agra College, visits Hemis monastery and interviews the head monk with the help of an interpreter. The monk stated that Notovitch had never been there and that no such writings existed.
Sri Yukteswar enrolls in Srirampur Christian Missionary College, where he develops an interest in the Bible. This interest would later express itself in his book, The Holy Science, which discusses the unity behind the scientific principles underlying Yoga and the Bible.
Sandow was acclaimed on his 1905 visit to India, when he was already a “cultural hero” in the country at a time of strong nationalistic feeling.
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Swami Yogananda arrives in Boston via The City of Sparta.
Edwin Hubble resolves the Shapley–Curtis debate by finding Cepheids in the Andromeda Galaxy, definitively proving that there are other galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash in the United States which began in October 1929 with a sharp decline in prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It triggered a rapid erosion of confidence in the U.S.
Germany Invades Poland. Beginning of World War II in Europe.
The United States detonates two Atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing between 150,000 to 246,000 people, mostly civilians. It was the first and only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the Chenoboskion Manuscripts and the Gnostic Gospels[a]) is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945
Mahatma Gandhi is on his way to address a prayer meeting, when Nathuram Godse, a Hindu Nationalist, shoots him 3 times at close range.
Paramahansa Yogananda passes away after concluding a speech at the Biltmore Hotel, in Los Angeles, California.
The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory, Kurgan model, or steppe theory) is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European homeland from which the Indo-European languages spread out throughout Europe and parts of Asia
Although the theory of Plate tectonics emerged earlier, it wasn’t widely accepted until after 1963 when seafloor spreading was confirmed.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin
Sintashta culture. Widely regarded as the origin of the Indo-Iranian languages, Sintashta culture is thought to represent an eastward migration of peoples from the Corded Ware culture.
AKA Indus Valley Civilization. The Indus Valley region was one of three early cradles of civilisation in the Old World; the Indus Valley civilisation was the most expansive, and at its peak, may have had a population as high as five million.
Biologically modern humans evolve in Africa.
The First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (Dynasty I)covers the first series of Egyptian kings to rule over a unified Egypt. It immediately follows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, by Menes, or Narmer, and marks the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, when power was centered at Thinis.
In addition to being one of the first cities, Uruk was the main force of urbanization and state formation during the Uruk period, or ‘Uruk expansion’ (4000–3200 BC)