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History of the Punjab - Punjab History Timeline
500,000 Years: Pre-historic and Proto-historic existance of early mankind
2500 - 1500 B.C.: Harappa Culture
2500 - 700 B.C.: Rigvedic Aryan Civilization
599 B.C.: Jainism
567 - 487 B.C.: Budha
550 B.C - 600 A.D.: Budhism remained prevelent
550 - 515 B.C.: Persian Invasion to west of Indus River
326 B.C.: Alexander's Invasion
322 - 298 B.C.: Chandra Gupta Maurya Period
273 - 232 B.C.: Ashoka's Period
125 - 160 B.C.: Rise of the Sakas (Scythians known as Jat ancestors)
2 B.C.: Beginning of Rule of the Sakas.
45 - 180 A.D.: Rule of the Kushanas
320 - 550 A.D.: Gupta Empire
500 A.D.: Huns Invasion
510 - 650 A.D.: Vardhanas Era
647 - 1192 A.D.: Rajput Period
713 - 1300 A.D.: Muslim Invaders (Turks and Arabs) famous invaders like Mahmud Gori and Mahmud Ghazni
8th Century A.D.: Arabs capture Sind and Multan
1450 - 1700 A.D.: Mughal Rulers
1469 - 1539 A.D.: Guru Nanak Dev Ji (1st Sikh Guru)
1539 - 1675 A.D.: Period of 8 Sikh Gurus from Guru Angad Dev Ji to Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji
1675 - 1708 A.D.: Guru Gobind Singh Ji (10th Sikh Guru)
1699 A.D.: Birth of the Khalsa
1708 - 1715 A.D.: Conquests of Banda Bahadur
1716 - 1759 A.D.: Sikh struggle against Moghul Governors
1739 A.D.: Invasion of Nadir Shah
1748 -1769 A.D.: Ahmed Shah Abdali's nine invasions
1762 A.D.: 2nd Holocaust (Ghalughara) from Ahmed Shah's 6th invasion
1764 - 1799 A.D.: Rule of the Sikh Misls
1799 - 1839 A.D.: Rule by Maharaja Ranjit Singh
1849 A.D.: Annexation of Punjab
1849 - 1947 A.D.: British Rule
1947 A.D.: Partition of India thus Punjab into 2 parts the Eastern part became the Indian Punjab and the Western part the Pakistan Punjab
1966 A.D.: Punjab in India divided into 3 parts on Linguistic basis
(Haryana, Himachal and Punjabi suba the present Punjab)
1984 A.D.: Operation Blue Star and its aftermath
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