Tamil Heritage

Western and Tamil Timeline

 

- 6000 BC Stone Age

- 4500 BC Farming Age

- 2500 BC Bronze Age & Indus Valley civilisation

- 1500 BC Vedic Period

- 1000 BC Metal tools & Baratha Natyam

- 800 BC Iron Age & Composition of the Upanishads

- 300 BC Chola Empire

- 300 BC Pandyan Empire

-100 BC Forts and Coins

- 54 BC Julius Caesar

- 5 BC Jesus

- 4 BC Pallava Dynasty, Tolkāppiyam

- 3 BC Sangam Period

- 1 BC

1 AD Spice Trade between Romans and Indians

71 AD Roman conquer England

200 AD Mahabaratha

410 AD Viking and Anglo Saxon

1010 AD Brihadeeswarar Temple built

1066 Norman Britain

1070 William the Conqueror

1154 Middle Ages

1485 Tudors

1505 Portuguese arrive in Ceylon

1603 Civil War and Revolution

1658 Dutch take over Jaffna

1714 Empire and Sea Power

1795 British take Ceylon from Dutch

1837 Victorian Empire

1882 Hydroelectric power station

1901 World Wars

1969 Man on the moon

2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami takes the life of   227,898 people.

2006 Apple’s first laptop

2009 Barack Obama becomes first African-American US President.

2012 Completion of International Space Station and first video recorder sent to Mars.Western and Tamil Timeline

 

Poetry: Auyaiyar, a poet during the Chola period wrote "Katrathu Kai Mann Alavu, Kallathathu Ulagalavu"  (What you have learned is a mere handful; What you haven't learned is the size of the world).