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Sikh gurus

gurus of Sikhism

13 dated entries naming Sikh gurus, drawn from 11 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.

Also written as Sikh Guru, Sikh Gurus, Sikh guru in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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15th century

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

16th century

  • 1534September 24 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (died 1581)source
  • 1539Guru Angad Dev becomes second guru of Sikhism.source
  • 1552Guru Amar Das becomes third guru of Sikhism (until 1554)source
  • 1574August 30 – Guru Ram Das becomes the fourth of the Sikh gurus.source
  • 15741 September – Guru Amar Das, 3rd Sikh gurusource
  • 1595June 19 – Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (died 1644)source

17th century

  • 1606Guru Arjan, first martyr of Sikh faith and the fifth of the ten Sikh Gurus, died on 30 May in Lahoresource
  • 1606May 30 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth of the Sikh gurus (executed) (born 1563)source
  • 1644February 28 – Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (born 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

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