Death of Guru Gobind Singh

October 7, 1708

The tenth and last human Guru of the Sikhs, having fought the Mughals for years and lost his four sons to them, died near Nanded of wounds from a Pathan assassin. Before dying he declared that henceforth the Guru Granth Sahib, the scripture itself, would be the eternal guru. A religion of the book was fully born.