The Sikh Empire was a state originating in the Indian subcontinent, formed under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who established an empire based in the Punjab. The empire existed from 1799, when Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore, to 1849, when it was defeated and conquered in the Second Anglo-Sikh War.It was forged on the foundations of the Khalsa from …

Ranjit Singh's Sikh Empire. Badshahi Mosque with damaged minarets during Sikh rule. Mughal Emperor Jehangir's mausoleum in Shahdara, Lahore. Twelve Sikh misls joined into one to form a new empire and sovereign Sikh State ruled by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Ranjit Singh was crowned on 12 April 1801 at Lahore. The 1740s were years of chaos, and the ...

The Sikh Empire (1799–1846) was established in the Punjab region of India. The empire collapsed when its founder, Ranjit Singh, died and its army fell to the British. During the same period, the Maratha Empire (also known as the Maratha Confederacy) was a Hindu state located in present-day India. It existed from 1674 to 1818, and at its peak ...

The Sikh Empire spanned a total of over 200,000 sq mi (520,000 km 2) at its zenith. After Ranjit Singh's death in 1839, the empire was severely weakened by internal divisions and political mismanagement. This opportunity was used by the East India Company to launch the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars. The country ...

Chhota Ghallughara (Punjabi: ਛੋਟਾ ਘੱਲੂਘਾਰਾ [tʃʰoʈɑ kə̀lːuɡɑ̀ɾɑ], "Smaller Massacre") was a massacre of a significant proportion of the Sikh population living in the region around present-day city of Lahore situated in Pakistani Punjab and the state of Punjab, India by the Mughal Empire in 1746. Mughal army killed an estimated 7,000 Sikhs in these attacks ...

The North Sea Empire, also known as the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire was the personal union of the kingdoms of England, Denmark and Norway for most of the period between 1013 and 1042 towards the end of the Viking Age. This ephemeral Norse-ruled empire was a thalassocracy, its components only connected by and dependent upon the sea.. The first king to unite all three …

Sikhism is the predominant religion in the Indian state of Punjab, where roughly 60% of the state population follows it, but Sikh communities exist on every inhabited continent, with the largest total emigrant populations being in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.Countries with the largest proportion of Sikhs include Canada (2.1%), India (1.7%), New Zealand (0.9%), …

The Oyo Empire was a powerful Yoruba empire of West Africa made up of parts of present-day eastern Benin and western Nigeria (including Southwest zone and the western half of Northcentral zone). It grew to become the largest Yoruba-speaking state and rose through the outstanding organizational and administrative skills of the Yoruba people, wealth gained from trade, and a …

The Korean Empire (Korean: 대한제국; Hanja: 大韓帝國; RR: Daehan Jeguk; MR: Taehan Jeguk; lit. Great Korean Empire) was a Korean monarchical state proclaimed in October 1897 by Emperor Gojong of the Joseon dynasty.The empire stood until Japan's annexation of Korea in August 1910.. During the Korean Empire, Emperor Gojong oversaw the Gwangmu Reform, a …

The misls (derived from an Arabic word meaning 'equal') were the twelve sovereign states of the Sikh Confederacy, which rose during the 18th century in the Punjab region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and is cited as one of the causes of the weakening of the Mughal Empire prior to Nader Shah's invasion of India in 1738–1740.. The misls formed a commonwealth that …