{"slug": "sikhs", "label": "Sikhs", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhs", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q582779", "qid": "Q582779", "description": "Religious group", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [1539, 2004], "span_label": ["1539 CE", "2004 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}], "also_known_as": ["Sikh", "Sikh people"], "related": [{"slug": "hindus", "label": "Hindus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lahore", "label": "Lahore", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ahmad-shah-durrani", "label": "Ahmad Shah Durrani", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mughal-empire", "label": "Mughal Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "afghanistan", "label": "Afghanistan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pakistan", "label": "Pakistan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-raj", "label": "British Raj", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "punjab", "label": "Punjab", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1539, "year_label": "1539 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 7 – Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the Sikhs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366494992#July–September", "title": "1539", "revid": 1366494992, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1552, "year_label": "1552 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 26", "text": "March 26 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364394581#January–March", "title": "1552", "revid": 1364394581, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1581, "year_label": "1581 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Guru Arjan Dev becomes the fifth Guru of Sikhs, succeeding his father Guru Ram Das.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362478489#Date_unknown", "title": "1581", "revid": 1362478489, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1745, "year_label": "1745 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – In Amritsar in India's Punjab region, the Sikh parliament (the Sarbat Khalsa) votes for a major reorganization of the Sikh nation's army, the Dal Khalsa, with 25 cavalry regiments and support troops under the command of General Nawab Kapur Singh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353016128#October_–December", "title": "1745", "revid": 1353016128, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1746, "year_label": "1746 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 – Zakariya Khan Bahadur, the Mughal Empire's viceroy administering Lahore (in what is now Pakistan), orders the massacre of the city's Sikh people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360271173#January–March", "title": "1746", "revid": 1360271173, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1752, "year_label": "1752 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – The Kingdom of Afghanistan, under the rule of Ahmad Shah Durrani, recaptures the city of Lahore four years after its capture by the Sikhs of Punjab.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362993688#April–June", "title": "1752", "revid": 1362993688, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1762, "year_label": "1762 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 5", "text": "February 5 – The Great Holocaust of the Sikhs is carried out by the forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali in Punjab. In all, around 30,000 men, women and children perish in this campaign of slaughter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806393#January–March", "title": "1762", "revid": 1340806393, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1897, "year_label": "1897 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 12", "text": "September 12 – Battle of Saragarhi: Twenty-one Sikhs of the 36th Sikhs regiment of the British Indian Army defend an army post to the death, against 10,000 Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen, in the Tirah Campaign on the Northwest frontier of the British Raj (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362850810#September", "title": "1897", "revid": 1362850810, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – The greater Indian subcontinent, with a mixed population of Hindu, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Zoroasters, Jews, Christians, Muslims and others formed by the Partition of India, gains independence from the British Empire, as the Dominion of India. 190 years British rule (1757–1947) in India comes to an end.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#August", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769014#October", "title": "1987", "revid": 1372769014, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2004, "year_label": "2004 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – Manmohan Singh, a Sikh, is sworn in as India's first non-Hindu prime minister.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373088592#May", "title": "2004", "revid": 1373088592, "section": "Events › May"}}]}