Quick history of Punjab: Date-line

[Desi_Action]

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Punjab History Timeline​

200,000 years: Pre-historic and Proto-historic existence of early mankind
2600 - 1900 BCE: Harappa Culture
1500 - 1000 BCE: Rigvedic Aryan Civilization
599 BCE: Jainism
567 - 487 or c. 400 BCE: Buddha
550 BCE - 600 CE: Buddhism remained prevalent
550 - 515 BCE: Persian Invasion to west of Indus River
326 BCE: Alexander's Invasion
322 - 298 BCE: Chandra Gupta Maurya Period
273 - 232 BCE: Ashoka's Period
125 - 160 BCE: Rise of the Sakas (Scythians, known as the ancestors of Rajputs)
2 BCE: Beginning of Rule of the Sakas
45 - 180 CE: Rule of the Kushanas
320 - 550: Gupta Empire
500: Hunnic Invasion
510 - 650: Vardhana Era
647 - 1192: Rajput Period
711 - 713: Muhammad bin Qasim conquer Sindh and Punjab regions along the Indus River (modern day Pakistan) for the Umayyad Caliphate.
713 - 1300: Muslim empires (Turks and Afghans) invade. Islam is being accepted by the people. Muslims and Hindus lives along each other.
. 1005- 1023: Mahmud of Ghazni war campaigns in India; 1005 against Shia ruler of Multan. In 1021 he offered thrown of Lahore city to Ayaz.
1206 - 1290: Mamluk dynasty establishes by Mohammad Ghori
1290 - 1320: Khilji dynasty establishes by Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji
1320 - 1413: Tughlaq dynasty established by Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
1414 - 1451: Sayyid dynasty established by Khizr Khan
1451 - 1526: Lodhi dynasty establishes by Bahlul Khan Lodhi
1526 - 1707: Mughal rule
1526- 1530: Zaheeruddin Muhammad Babur
1530 -1540: Nasiruddin Muhammad Humayun
1540 - 1545: Sher Shah Suri
1545 -1554: Islam Shah Suri
1555 -1555: Nasiruddin Muhammad Humayun
1556 - 1556: Hem Chandra Vikramaditya
1556 -1605: Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar
1605 -1627: Nooruddin Muhammad Jahangir
1627 -1658: Shahaabuddin Muhammad Shah Jahan
1658 1707: Mohiuddin Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir
1707: The rule by the Mughal empire is weakened
1469 - 1539: Guru Nanak Dev (1st Guru) from the Sikh religion
1539 - 1675: Period of 8 Sikh Gurus from Guru Angad Dev to Guru Tegh Bahadur
1675 - 1708: Guru Gobind Singh (10th Sikh Guru)
1708 - 1715: Conquests of Banda Bahadur
1716 - 1759: The Sikhs minority battles against Moghul Governors
1739: Invasion of Nadir Shah from Persia
1748 -1769: Ahmed Shah Abdali's (Durrani) nine invasions. The Sikhs and the Durrani empire in close competition for gaining control of the region.
1761 : The Third Battle of Panipat, between the Durrani Empire against the Maratha Empire.
1762: The 2nd Sikh holocaust, referred to as "Ghalughara" by Sikhs, from Ahmed Shah's 6th invasion
1764 - 1799: Rule by the Sikh Misls
1799 - 1839: Rule over Punjab by the minority community of Sikhs, led by Maharaja Ranjit Singh(born 1780, crowned April 12, 1801, died 1839).
Kharak Singh (1801--1840), Eldest son of Ranjit Singh.
Nau Nihal Singh (1821-1840), Grandson of Ranjit Singh.
Sher Singh (1807-1843), Son of Ranjit Singh.
Duleep Singh (born 1838, crowned 1843, died 1893), Youngest son of Ranjit Singh.
1849 : Annexation of Punjab - The British Empire annexed Punjab during 1845-49
1845-46: First Anglo- Sikh war between Sikh Empire and British East India Company
1848-49: Second Anglo- Sikh war
1849 - 1947: British India established
1911: Calcutta ceases to be capital of Indian Empire and Delhi is removed from Punjab and becomes new capital territory
1947 : Partition of British India thus Punjab into 2 parts the Eastern part (or two rivers) became the Indian Punjab and the Western majority part (3 rivers) the Pakistan Punjab
1966: Punjab in India divided into three parts on linguistic basis - Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjabi Suba (the present India Punjab)
1984: Operation Blue Star and its aftermath.
2001: 9/11 and its present aftermath in Pakistani Punjab.

 

[Ali-NZ]

After 30th October 2011: Punjab belongs to PTI only

 

[GreenMaple]

Thanks for sharing long and interesting history of Punjab.

 

[Desi_Action]

Quite interestingly ancient Hindu religious book, 'Rigveda' is also written in Punjab, which shows that Punjab is birth place of Hindu religion. While Sikh Guru Nanak was also a Punjabi.

 

[AbdulRehman]

Prior to independence, the Punjab extended across both sides of what is now the India-Pakistan border. Lahore was its capital. After independence, Shimla was chosen as the capital of state of Punjab.


Later in the 50s, the first planned city in India, Chandigarh, was built and it became the capital of Punjab.


Politically, then Punjab was torn into two between Pakistan and India in the partition of British India in 1947 .Pakistan was awarded 62% of the Punjab India was awarded the remaining 38% of the Punjab


In 1966, India's portion of the Punjab was again divided into three areas: Punjab, Haryana, and Himchal Pradesh .The northwest sections became the state of Punjab, the southeast area became the state of Haryana, and the hilly regions in the northeast went to the state of Himachal Pradesh.

 

[Desi_Action]

I think it was Baba Farid - a sufi from Chisti sufi order, who wrote poetry Punjabi language in shah-mukhi style. His poetry was perhaps first writing in Punjabi language, as well.