📍 Place
Lahore
👑 Capital of 2 kingdoms and empires · 11 events here
The large dot is this place; small dots are places within 80 km.
Through time
👑 Ruled from here
c. 977 CE – c. 1186Ghaznavid EmpireCapital: Ghazni, later Lahore1799 – 1849Sikh EmpireCapital: Lahore
What happened here within 25 km
- c. 1,200 BCE ⚔ Battle of the Ten Kings · Early Vedic Communities
- 1186 ⚔ Ghurids take Lahore, ending the Ghaznavids · Ghurid Empire
- 1606 Execution of Guru Arjan Dev · Mughal Empire
- 1799 Ranjit Singh takes Lahore · Sikh Empire
- 1839 Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh · Sikh Empire
- 1849 ⚔ Punjab annexed · British East India Company
- 1928 Simon Commission boycotted · British Raj (Crown Rule)
- 1929 Purna Swaraj resolution at Lahore · British Raj (Crown Rule)
- 1931 Execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru · British Raj (Crown Rule)
- 1940 Lahore Resolution · British Raj (Crown Rule)
- 1965 ⚔ Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 · Republic of India