Historical place archive

Quetta in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Quetta in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1839–1839

Historical events in Quetta

1839

March 1839
Invasion of Afghanistan
John Keane · Anglo-Afghan War, 1st

By late March 1839, the British forces had reached Quetta, crossed the Bolan Pass and begun their march to Kabul

Provenance

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