TimeLine Of Historical Events In Punjab History

The following list covers a brief timeline of major events occurred in the hisotry of punjab which are worth mentioning. Although i guess a big thick book can be written with detailed events of punjab history.

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

500 - 200 B.C.: ?Age of Ramayana

1500 B.C.: ?Age of Mahabharta War

500 - 400 B.C.: ?Mahabharta Book completed

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