J & K. CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS.

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS (HISTORY) FROM AD 544-55- TILL  AD 1746

                     DATE                                   EVENT                                REMARKS

   AD  544-550                  Reign of Mihirakula                         White Hun Dynasty

                                                                                                                        (Cruel King)

                 AD  631-633                   Visit of Hieun Tsiang

                 AD  699-736                   Reign of Lalitaditya                         Karkota Dynasty

                 AD  699-736                   Famous Martand temples built

                 AD  751-782                   Reign of King Jayapida                 Karkota Dynasty

                 AD  855/6-883                Reign of Avantivarman                  Utpala Dynasty

                 AD  866/6-883                City Avantipura designed.             Reign of Avantivarman

                                                     City Suyyapur present day 

Sopore designed by architect

Suyya.

                 AD  887-902                   Reign of Sankaravarman                Utpala Dynasty

                 AD  902-904                   Reign of King Gopalavarman                  -do-

                 AD  904-906                   Reign of Queen Sugandha                       -do-

                 AD  948-949                   Reign of King Sangramadeva                  -do-

 (for few months)

                 AD  950-958                   Reign of King Ksemagupta                     -do-

                 AD  980/1-1003              Reign of Queen Didda wife of                -do-

                                                      King Ksemagupta

                 AD  1003-28                   Reign of King Sangrama Raja        Lohara Dynasty

                 AD  1015-1021                Unsuccessful attempt by Sultan

                                                      Mahmud of Gazni to annex

 Kashmir

                 AD  1028-63                   Reign of King Ananta                       Lohara Dynasty

                 AD  1081                        King Ananta kills himself by

         suicide

                 AD  1063-89                   Reign of King Kalasa                     Lohara Dynasty

                 AD  1089-1101               Reign of King Harsa                                -do-

                 AD  1101                        Harsa was killed

                 AD  1101-11                   Reign of King Uccala                     Second Lohara Dynasty

                 AD  1112-20                   Reign of King Sussala                              -do-

                 AD  1120-21                   Short Reign of King Bhiksakara            -do- 

                 AD  1121-28                   King Sussala reinstalled & ruled            Second Lohara Dynasty  

                 AD 1123                        Great Famine in Kashmir

                 AD  1144                        Invasion by King Bhoja. Capture of

                                                          King Lothana

                 AD  1148-49                   Kalhana writes Rajatarangini                 River of Kings

                 AD  1420-70                   Rise of Sikandar (or)                              Rise of Muslim Rule

                                                         Zainul-abedin 

   

                 AD  1532                        Mirza Haider general of Sultan              Rise of Mughals

                                                       Humayun invades Kashmir and rules it till his death for 11 years.

                 AD  1586                        Akbar annexes Kashmir.                        Incorporation of

                                                         Yusuf Shah submits himself to              Kashmir in Mughal

                                                         Akbar.                                                           domination.

                 AD  1587-1589              Yaqub Chak son of Yusuf Shah                Chak Dynasty

                                                     crowns himself King of Kashmir.

                 AD  1589                        Yaqub Chak defeated by Akbar                                         

                 AD  1589-1597               Akbar visits Kashmir thrice.                 

                 AD  1605                        Jahangir ascends throne of Mughal       Develops 700 gardens                                                                                                           Emperor.                                                of which Shalimar and                                                                                                                                                                       Nishat are very famous

                 AD  1627                        Jahangir’s son Shajehan ascends

                                                       throne

                 AD  1658                        Aurangazeb ascends Mughal throne      The last Mughal emperor to rule

 Kashmir   

                 AD  1700                        Strand of beard of Prophet Mohammed installed in Hazratba

                 AD  1707                        Death of Aurangazeb                            

                 AD  1719                        Muhammad Shah ascends Mughal

         Throne                           

                 AD  1720                        Major Shia-Sunni riots in Kashmir                                

                 AD  1723                        Severe famine hits Kashmir                              

                 AD  1738                        End of Mughal rule in Kashmir

                 AD  1746                        Devastating flood and famine hits

                                       Kashmir in which three quarters of

 its people perished.       

            

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