- c. 500 BCE — Asia:
Rise of the Buddha and Mahavira
Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) founds Buddhism and Mahavira reforms Jainism, launching two enduring religions amid a wider questioning of Vedic ritual.
Era: The Vedic Age and the Great Religions
Sources: Mahavira, Jaina teacher · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Religion in the 5th century BCE
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 5th century BCE, tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
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- Nations
- 1
- Earliest
- 500 BCE
- Latest
- 500 BCE
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.