Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Historical-Periods

Hi, polyglots.

When you decide to pick up the history of a region, you are facing a lot of events and figures. Here is a list of the most significant of them.

In progress

China

period	time span	event	figure	technology	artwork
Yellow River civilisation	c. 7500 BC ? – c. 1400 BC
Yangtze civilisation	c. 7000 BC – c. 1600 BC
Liáo River civilisation	c. 7000 BC – c. 500 BC
Xià dynasty	c. 2070 BC – c. 1600 BC
Shāng dynasty	c. 1600 BC – c. 1046 BC
Zhōu dynasty: Western Zhōu	1046 BC – 771 BC
Spring and Autumn (Zhōu dynasty: Eastern Zhōu)	c. 770 BC – c. 476 BC (771 BC – 256 BC)
Warring States (Zhōu dynasty: Eastern Zhōu)	475 BC – 221 BC (771 BC – 256 BC)
Qín dynasty	221 BC – 207 BC
Hàn dynasty: Western Hàn	206 BC – 9
Xīn dynasty	9 – 23
Hàn dynasty: Eastern Hàn	25 – 220
Three Kingdoms	220 – 280
Jìn dynasty: Western Jìn	266 – 316
Jìn dynasty: Eastern Jìn	317 – 420
Sixteen Kingdoms	304 – 439
Northern and Southern dynasties	420 – 589
Suí dynasty	581 – 618
Táng dynasty	618 – 907
Wǔ Zhōu	690 – 705
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms	907 – 979
Liáo dynasty	916 – 1125
Sòng dynasty: Northern Sòng	960 – 1127
Sòng dynasty: Southern Sòng	1127 – 1279
Western Xià	1038 – 1227
Jīn dynasty	1115 – 1234
Yuán dynasty	1271 – 1368
Míng dynasty	1368 – 1644
Qīng dynasty	1644 – 1912
Republic of China	1912 –
People's Republic of China	1949 –

Greece

period	time span	event	figure	technology	artwork
Pelasgians	c. 7000 BC – c. 3200 BC
Helladic civilisation	c. 3200 BC – c. 1050 BC
Cycladic civilisation	c. 3100 BC – c. 1000 BC
Minoan civilisation	c. 3100 BC – c. 1100 BC
Mycenaean civilisation	c. 1750 BC – c. 1050 BC
Greek Dark Ages	c. 1200 BC – c. 800 BC
Archaic Greece	c. 800 BC – 480 BC
Classical Greece	510 BC – 323 BC
Hellenistic Greece	323 BC – 31 BC
Roman rule in Greece	146 BC – 330
Byzantine Greece	330 – 1460
Kingdom of Candia	1205 – 1667
Venetian rule in the Ionian Islands	1363 – 1797
Ottoman rule in Greece	1371 – 1912
Republic of the Seven Islands	1800 – 1807
Greek War of Independence	1821 – 1829
First Hellenic Republic	1822 – 1832
Kingdom of Greece	1832 – 1924
Second Hellenic Republic	1924 – 1935
4th of August Regime	1936 – 1941
Occupation of Greece by the Axis	1941 – 1944
Greek Civil War	1946 – 1949
Greek junta	1967 – 1974
Third Hellenic Republic	1974 –

India

period	time span	event	figure	technology	artwork
Indus Valley civilisation	c. 3300 BC – c. 1700 BC
Cemetery H Culture	c. 1700 BC – c. 1500 BC
Vedic period	c. 1500 BC – c. 500 BC
Magadha: Haryanka dynasty	544 BC – 413 BC
Chola dynasty	c. 4th century BC – 1279
Magadha: Shaishunaga dynasty	413 BC – 345 BC
Magadha: Nanda dynasty	c. 345 BC – c. 322 BC
Pandyan dynasty	400 BC – 1618
Mahājanapadas	c. 600 BC – c. 345 BC
Magadha: Maurya dynasty	322 BC – 184 BC
Magadha: Shunga dynasty	187 BC – 73 BC
Magadha: Kanva dynasty	75 BC – 28 BC
Satavahana dynasty	c. 30 BC – c. 220
Kushan Empire	30 – 375
Gupta Empire	c. 240 – c. 550
Chalukya dynasty	c. 500 – c. 647
Pushyabhuti dynasty	c. 606 – c. 647
Karkota dynasty	625 – 855
Tripartite Struggle	c. 760 – c. 973
Western Chalukya Empire	973 – 1184
Delhi Sultanate	1206 – 1526
Vijayanagara Empire	1336 – 1646
Bengal Sultanate	1342 – 1576
Mughal dynasty	1526 – 1857
Sur Empire	1538 – 1555
Maratha Confederacy	1674 – 1818
Company rule in India	1757 – 1858
Kingdom of Mysore	1760 – 1799
Sikh Empire	1799 – 1849
The Great Rebellion	1857 – 1858
British Raj	1858 – 1947
Union of India	1947 – 1950
Republic of India	1950 –