The Land of Five Rivers 

PUNJAB HISTORY TIMELINE

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