Historical Timeline

300 BCE → 1966 CE — Key founding events in Sanatan Dharma traditions

🔱 Shaiva🪷 Vaishnava🌺 Shakta📿 Smarta⚡ Nath★ = Founding event

300 BCE

Pasupata Sampradaya founded (Lakulisha)

100 CE

Shaiva Siddhanta begins crystallising

500 CE

Nath Panth — Matsyendranath / early tradition

788 CE

★ Adi Shankaracharya born — Dashanami founded

900 CE

Nathamuni compiles Divya Prabandham

1017 CE

★ Ramanujacharya born — Sri Vaishnava formalised

1238 CE

★ Madhvacharya — Dvaita Vedanta / Brahma Sampradaya

1268 CE

Vedanta Desika born — Vadakalai Sri Vaishnava

1449 CE

★ Vallabhacharya — Shuddhadvaita / Pushti Marg

1486 CE

★ Chaitanya Mahaprabhu — Gaudiya Vaishnava

1500 CE

Nimbarka tradition institutionalised in Vrindavan

1781 CE

★ Sahajanand Swami — Swaminarayan Sampradaya

1966 CE

ISKCON founded — Gaudiya global expansion

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