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Sikh gurus

gurus of Sikhism

9 dated entries naming Sikh gurus, drawn from 9 separate years between 1479 CE and 1699 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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15th century

  • 1479May 5 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)source

16th century

  • 1534September 24 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)source
  • 1574August 30 – Guru Ram Das becomes the fourth of the Sikh gurus.source
  • 1595June 19 – Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (d. 1644)source

17th century

  • 1606May 30 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth of the Sikh gurus (executed) (b. 1563)source
  • 1644February 28 – Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (b. 1595)source
  • 1661October 6 – Guru Har Krishan becomes eighth of the ten Sikh gurus, and at age 5 the youngest, following the death of his father Guru Har Rai.source
  • 1675November 11 – Guru Teg Bahadur, ninth of the Sikh gurus, is executed by Mughal rulers, proclaiming that he prefers death rather than disavowing the right of Hindus to practice their own religion. He is succeeded by Guru Gobind Singh, who becomes the tenth Guru.source
  • 1699April 13 – The 10th Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, creates the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib.source