Hindu

9 dated entries naming Hindu, drawn from 9 separate years between 460 BCE and 1950 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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5th century BC

6th century

  • 550Hindu mathematicians give zero a numeral representation in a positional notation system.source

10th century

  • 967April 22 – The Cambodian temple Banteay Srei is consecrated and dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.source

11th century

  • 1006A major eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano on Java causes devastation throughout the centre of the island (which it covers with volcanic ash) and to the Javanese Hindu Mataram kingdom.source

14th century

  • 1339Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir, having defeated Kota Rani, Hindu queen regnant of Kashmir, in battle at Jayapur (modern Sumbal), asks her to marry him, but she commits suicide rather than do so; thus he takes over sole rule of Kashmir, beginning the Muslim Shah Mir Dynasty.source
  • 1366War continues between the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate in modern-day southern India.source
  • 1398December 17 – Timur defeats the last ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, which has been weakened after four years of civil war. Following his victory, Timur's Islamic troops sack the city of Delhi, and proceed to massacre hundreds of thousands of the state's Hindu inhabitants.source

16th century

  • 1565January 23 – Battle of Talikota: The Vijayanagara Empire, the last Hindu kingdom in South India, is greatly weakened by the Deccan sultanates.source

20th century

  • 1950January 14 – Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Hindu religious leadersource

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