Hindus

adherent of the religion of Hinduism

12 dated entries naming Hindus, drawn from 12 separate years between 460 BCE and 2004 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

460 BCEPanini, Hindu Indian grammarian (b. 520 BC)source

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

12th century

1180Kambar, Indian Hindu poet and writer (d. 1250)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

1947August 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.source
1950January 14 – Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Hindu religious leadersource

21st century

2004May 22 – Manmohan Singh, a Sikh, is sworn in as India's first non-Hindu prime minister.source