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The Canon · No. 059
Sikhism
Sikhi
1469 CE – present · Dharmic / Indian · Living · Punjab; large diaspora in the UK, Canada, US, Australia
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1469 CE Guru Nanak born.
- 1499 CE His revelation and the beginning of his four long journeys.
- 1577, 1604 CE Amritsar founded; the Golden Temple built with doors on all four sides to signify openness to all; the Adi Granth installed.
- 1606 CE Guru Arjan martyred by the Mughal emperor Jahangir. The community begins to arm.
- 1675 CE Guru Tegh Bahadur executed in Delhi for defending the right of Kashmiri Hindus — not Sikhs — to practise their religion. Sikhs regard this as a martyrdom for religious freedom as such.
- <strong>1699 CE</strong> Guru Gobind Singh founds the Khalsa at Anandpur, initiating five volunteers and then asking them to initiate him. Surnames Singh (lion) and Kaur (princess) adopted to erase caste names.
- 1708 CE Guru Gobind Singh dies, declaring the Guru Granth Sahib the eternal Guru.
- 1799–1849 CE The Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
- 1849 CE British annexation of Punjab.
- 1919 CE Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar.
- 1947 CE Partition cuts Punjab in two; Sikhs suffer enormous casualties and mass displacement.
- <strong>1984 CE</strong> Operation Blue Star — the Indian Army assaults the Golden Temple complex. Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards; anti-Sikh pogroms follow in Delhi and elsewhere, killing thousands.
- 2012 CE Oak Creek gurdwara shooting, Wisconsin.
- Present Turbaned Sikhs remain among the most frequent victims of anti-Muslim hate crime in the West, through mistaken identity.
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