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This is a timeline of Pakistani history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Pakistan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Pakistan. See also the list of Presidents of Pakistan and list of Prime Ministers of Pakistan and the list of years in Pakistan. Although the modern day Pakistan, the land of Indus, emerged on the world map as a new nation-state in 1947 this area has a very long history that goes back over thousands of years and it is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited regions. The Indus Valley was known as Meluhha 〔Gregory Possehl: ''The Indus Civilization. A Contemporary Perspective''. Lanham 2002, S. 217ff.〕 in Mesopotamia when the Harappan civilization was thriving here. When the Aryan tribes came and settled down in the upper Indus valley in the middle of the second millennium BC they called it Sapta-Sindhu (the land of seven rivers). Now this Indus land is called Pakistan which is an acronym composed from the initial letters of the name of its provinces namely, Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Indus, Sindh and the last three letters of Balochistan. ==BC== * 2,000,000 BC: In Riwat, dating at this period, stones implementations (tools) have been found at the site, proposing a possibility of earlier homo erectus existence〔(The African Emergence and Early Asian Dispersals of the Genus Homo - American Scientist )〕 * 1,600,000 BC: A stone artifact is discovered in Riwat, dated to this period * 500,000 BC: Some of the earliest relics of Stone Age man have been found in the Soan Valley of the Potohar region near Rawalpindi, dating back to 500,000 BCE * 9000 BC - 5500 BC: (Mehrgarh Period I ) * 5500 BC - 4800 BC: (Mehrgarh Period II ) * 4800 BC - 3500 BC: (Mehrgarh Period III ) * 3500 BC - 2800 BC: (Mehrgarh Periods IV to VI ) * 2800 BC - 2000 BC: (Mehrgarh Period VII ) * 2800 BC - 2500 BC: Early Harappan / Kot Diji Phase * 2500 BC - 1900 BC: (Harappan Phase ); Flourishment of Indus Valley Civilization at urban centres, (Mohenjo-Daro ) & Harappa * 1900 BC - 1300 BC: (Late Harappan Phase ) (Cemetery H Culture) * 1700 BC - 0600 BC: Start of the Aryan civilization in Sapta Sindhu, Punjab and of Indus culture, Rigvedic civilization the day of pakistan * 1500 BC: Earliest verses of Rig-Veda were written in the Indus Valley (Pakistan) *516 BC: Pakistan becomes easternmost part of Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Gandharais semi-independent kingdom * 500 BC: Gandhara civilization (500 BC to 500 AD) 〔(Gandhara Civilization )〕 * 327 BC - 325 BC: Alexander of Macedonia invades Pakistan and captures Taxila * 326 BC: Porus, the king of Punjab, fought the battle of the Hydaspes River against the Macedonian king Alexander. * 325 BC: During the siege of the capital of the Mallians (modern Multan), Alexander was seriously wounded by an arrow in the chest. * 300 BC: Mauryan empire, Ashoka promotes Buddhism * 185 BC: Bactrian Greeks conquer North-West Pakistan * 75 BC: Arrival of Scythians (Sakas) from central Asia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of Pakistani history」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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