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Lahore in History

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

12 records10 event labels8 people1585โ€“1999

Historical events in Lahore

1585

1585
Court Moves to Lahore
Akbar ยท Mughal Empire

Akbar transfers his court to Lahore for several years to supervise northwestern frontier affairs more closely.

1627

1627
Burial
Jahangir ยท House of Mogul

Buried in Shahdara Bagh, a suburb of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

1712

27 February 1712
Death of Bahadur Shah I
Bahadur Shah I ยท House of Mogul

Death of Bahadur Shah I

1799

1799
Capture of Lahore
Ranjit Singh ยท Military

Captures Lahore.

1799
Rule of Lahore
Ranjit Singh ยท Military

Captures Lahore.

July 1799
Capture of Lahore
Ranjit Singh ยท Government of India

Ranjit Singh takes Lahore and establishes it as the centre of his growing Sikh state.

1801

12 April 1801
Maharaja
Ranjit Singh ยท Government of India

Ranjit Singh assumes the title of Maharaja and establishes a sovereign Sikh monarchy centred on Lahore.

1846

9 March 1846
Treaty of Lahore
Duleep Singh ยท Sikh War, 1st

The Sikh government of the young Duleep Singh accepts the Treaty of Lahore after defeat in the First Sikh War.

9 March 1846
Treaty of Lahore
Gulab Singh ยท Sikh War, 1st

The Treaty of Lahore ends the First Sikh War and requires major territorial and financial concessions from the Sikh state.

1929

28 December 1929
Independence of India
Jawaharlal Nehru ยท Indian National Congress

The Lahore session under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru holds special significance as in this session "Poorna Swaraj" (complete independence) was declared as the goal of Indian National Congress

28 December 1929
Indian National Congress
Jawaharlal Nehru ยท Indian National Congress

The Lahore session under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru holds special significance as in this session "Poorna Swaraj" (complete independence) was declared as the goal of Indian National Congress

1999

21 February 1999
Declaration of Lahore
Atal Bihari Vajpayee ยท Government of India

Vajpayee and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sign the Lahore Declaration after Vajpayee's bus journey to Pakistan.

Provenance

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