Late Middle Ages · South Asia · Religion
1469
Guru Nanak Born in Talwandi
April 15, 1469
In a Punjabi village, a son was born to a Hindu tax collector of the Khatri caste. He would grow up hearing both Hindu bhajans and Muslim qawwali, disappear at age thirty into a river for three days, and emerge declaring that there was no Hindu and no Muslim. Sikhism's founder had begun his mission.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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