Gandhara Kingdom

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Establishment

• January 1499 BC: Gandhāra (Sanskrit: गन्धार) was a kingdom mentioned in the Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana.

Chronology

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1. Wars of Cyrus the Great

Were a series of expansionistic military campaigns by the first Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great.

1.1. Achaemenid invasion of the Indus Valley

Were a series of military campaigns by the Achaemenid rulers in the Indus valley.

• January 538 BC: Cyrus the Great expanded the Achaemenid Empire as far as to the banks of the Indus river and organized the conquered territories under the Satrapy of Gandara.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

• January 1149 BC: Madra was a kingdom grouped among the western kingdoms in the epic Mahabharata. Its capital was Sagala, modern Sialkot (in the Punjab province of Pakistan).
• January 1149 BC: Kekeya (also known as Kekaya, Kaikaya, Kaikeya etc.) was a kingdom grouped among the western kingdoms in the epic Mahabharata.
• January 599 BC: The Kingdom of Kapisa was a state located in what is now Afghanistan during the late 1st millennium AD.

Disestablishment

• January 534 BC: Persian conquest of the Gandhara region.