ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Punjab </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xpunjab.html"> <img src = "../banners/banpunjab.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on October 30th 2004, last revised on April 14th 2007</i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Punjab </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 325 B.C. <BR><BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Alexander the Great invaded Punjab <BR><BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1577 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Fifth Sikh Guru Ram Das founded city of Amritsar <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1584-1598 <BR><BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Lahore under Akbar temporarily functioned as the capital of the Mughal Empire; Akbar had <BR> Lahore Fort built. <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1699 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Militarization of Sikhism; formation of the Khalsa <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1707 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb had the Badshahi Masjid and the Alamgiri gateway to the fort built <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1709-1710 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Banda Singh briefly achieved Sikh independence from Mughal Empire <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1716 <BR><BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Banda Singh executed by Mughals; open Sikh resistance against Mughal rule <BR><BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1739-1747 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Nadir Shah's invasion; Persian rule <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1745-1756 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Period of uncertainty; Lahore saw 9 governors come and go <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1748-1769 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Ahmed Shah Abdali's 9 invasions of the Punjab <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1758 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Sikh capture of Lahore <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1763 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Foundation to Patiala Fort laid <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1764-1799 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Rule of the Sikh Misls <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1767 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Afghans retook Lahore <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1773 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Death of Ahmad Shah Abdali <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1783-1784 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Famine Year <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1793 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Afghans ousted from Lahore; Afghan army routed </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1795 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Afghan invasion of the Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1796-1797 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Afghan invasion of India </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1798 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Afghan invasion of the Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1799 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Ranjit Singh ascended to the throne; retook Lahore from the Afghans who had taken in in 1798; R.S. began a policy of expansion which resulted in the unification of the Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1803 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> an Earthquake struck Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1806, 1809 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Treaties of Lahore, between E.I.C. and Ranjit Singh, limiting the latter to the left bank of the Sutlej </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1808 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Patiala signed treaty with E.I.C. directed against Ranjit Singh </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1809 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> E.I.C. granted protection to <A HREF = "xnabha.html">Nabha</A>, Cis-Sutlej States </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1814 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> an Earthquake struck Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1827 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Succession struggle in <A HREF = "xjind.html">Jind</A>; interventon of E.I.C. forces </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1835 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Rebellion in <A HREF = "xjind.html">Jind</A>; intervention of E.I.C. forces </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1836 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> American Mission established in Ludhiana </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1837-1838 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Famine Year </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1839 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1840 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Death of Kharak Singh, son and successor of Ranjit Singh </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1842 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> an Earthquake struck Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1846 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First Anglo-Sikh War </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1848-1849 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Second Anglo-Sikh War; Punjab annexed by the E.I.C. </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1849 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Board of Administration of Punjab formed </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1852 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Protestant mission established in Amritsar </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1853 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Board of Administration abolished; Chief Commissioner appointed </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1853 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Lahore became capital of E.I.C.-adminitered Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1855 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Census : population of the Punjab 13,000,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1855-1870 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Construction of railroad connecting Delhi, Punjab and <A HREF = "xsindh.html">Sindh</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1856 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Introduction of the Criminal Code in force in Bengal Presidency </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1857-1858 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Sepoy Rebellion; Raja of Jind sided with the British </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1858 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Delhi territory on the right bank of the Jumna transferred to the Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1860-1861 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Famine in district between Sutlej and Jumna </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1862 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Cholera epidemic </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1865 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> an Earthquake struck Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1870-1876 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Completion of the Upper Bari Canal </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1874 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Peasant Rebellion in <A HREF = "xjind.html">Jind</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1876-1882 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Construction of the Sirhind Canal </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1882 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Opening of Punjab University </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1883 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Coal Mining begun at Dandot </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1884 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Census : population of the Punjab 21,860,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1895-1896 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Famine Year </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1897-1898 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Famine Year </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1899-1900 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Famine; the worst since the British had taken over the Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1900 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Lyallpur founded </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1901 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> North West Frontier Province established, separated from Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1905 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> the Plague killed 390,000 in the Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1905-1907 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Punjab Agitation (in response to <A HREF = "../russia/xrussia.html">Russia</A>'s defeat in 1905) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1909 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Elections for Punjab Legislative Assembly held; Minto Morley Reforms create separate electorates - Muslim, Non-Muslim </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1914-1918 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> World War I; 60 % of the British Indian troops came from the Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1915 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Mutiny in Ferozepur, Lahore, Rawalpindi </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1919 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Amritsar Massacre </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Shiromani Akali Dal founded </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1922 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Unionist Party founded </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1923 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Unionist Party won elections to Punjab Legislative Assembly </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1926 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Unionist Party won elections to Punjab Legislative Assembly </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1930 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Great Depression; the price for wheat, Punjab's major export product, dropped from 4.25 to 1.5 Rs. per maund </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1934 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Unionist Party won elections to Punjab Legislative Assembly </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1935 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Government of India Act </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1937 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Unionist Party won election of 1937, formed Government of Punjab </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1940 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Muslim League, at session in Lahore, raised demand to form a separate Muslim state of <A HREF = "xpakistan.html">Pakistan</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1944 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Price control for grain introduced </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1946 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Elections held in the Punjab; victory of the Muslim League; Unionist government resigned </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1947 <BR><BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Punjab partitioned into a larger western part, with Lahore, allocated to <A HREF = "xpakistan.html">Pakistan</A> (1947 population 18,800,000, and into a smaller eastern part, with Amritsar, allocated to <A HREF = "xindia.html">India</A> (1947 population 12,650,000) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1948 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Patiala, <A HREF = "xnabha.html">Nabha</A>, <A HREF = "xnalagarh.html">Nalagarh</A>, <A HREF = "xmalerkotla.html">Malerkotla</A>, <A HREF = "xjind.html">Jind</A>, <A HREF = "xfaridkot.html">Faridkot</A>, <A HREF = "xkapurthala.html">Kapurthala</A>, <A HREF = "xkalsia.html">Kalsia</A> joined the <A HREF = "xindia.html">Indian Union</A>, established PEPSU <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1948 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First Indo-Pakistani War </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1956 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> East Punjab was merged with Patiala and East Punjab States Union </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1958 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Rawalpindi became temporary capital of <A HREF = "xpakistan.html">Pakistan</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1961-1963 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Construction of Islamabad as <A HREF = "xpakistan.html">Pakistan</A>'s new capital </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1965 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Second Indo-Pakistani War </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1966 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Indian part of Punjab partitioned into <A HREF = "xharyana.html">Haryana</A>, Punjab; a third part of Punjab was added to <A HREF = "xhimachal.html">Himachal Pradesh</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1971 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Third Indo-Pakistani War </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1984 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Amritsar (Indian Punjab) : Operation Blue Star </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1998 <BR> </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Population of West Punjab (<A HREF = "xpakistan.html">Pakistan</A> section) 72,585,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR><BR><BR> </div> <div align="center"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; 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