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 CE: Gupta Empire
500 CE: Hunnic Invasion
510 - 650 CE: Vardhana Era
647 - 1192 CE: Rajput Period
713 - 1300 CE: Muslim Invaders (Arabs, then Turks) like Mohammed Ghori and Mahmud Ghazni
8th Century CE: Arabs capture Sind and Multan
1450 - 1700 CE: Mughal Rulers
1469 - 1539 CE: Guru Nanak Dev (1st Sikh Guru)
1539 - 1675 CE: Period of 8 Sikh Gurus from Guru Angad Dev to Guru Tegh Bahadur
1675 - 1708 CE: Guru Gobind Singh (10th Sikh Guru)
1708 - 1715 CE: Conquests of Banda Bahadur
1716 - 1759 CE: Sikh struggle against Moghul Governors
1739 CE: Invasion of Nadir Shah
1748 -1769 CE: Ahmed Shah Abdali's nine invasions
1762 CE: 2nd Holocaust (Ghalughara) from Ahmed Shah's 6th invasion
1764 - 1799 CE: Rule of the Sikh Misls
1799 - 1839 CE: Rule by Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Maharaja Ranjit Singh (b.1780, Crowned April 12, 1801, d.1839)
Kharak Singh (b.1801, d.1840), Eldest son of Ranjit Singh.
Nau Nihal Singh (b.1821, d.1840), Grandson of Ranjit Singh.
Sher Singh (b.1807, d.1843), Son of Ranjit Singh.
Duleep Singh (b.1838, Crowned 1843, d.1893), Youngest son of Ranjit Singh.
1849 CE: Annexation of Punjab - The British Empire annexed Punjab in c.1845-49 AD; after two Anglo Sikh Wars
1849 - 1947 CE: British Rule
1911 CE: Calcutta ceases to be capital of Indian Empire and Delhi is removed from Punjab and becomes new capital territory
1947 CE: Partition of India and thus Punjab into 2 parts. The Eastern part became the Indian Punjab and the Western part the Pakistan Punjab
1966 CE: Punjab in India divided into 3 parts on linguistic basis - Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjabi Suba (the present Punjab)
1984 CE: Operation Blue Star and its aftermath