Territorial change
Open on the mapPunjab (Sikh Empire): Non-state territory → United Kingdom (conquest)
1849 · Punjab (Sikh Empire)
What the records say
- When
- 1849
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Punjab (Sikh Empire)
- Coordinates
- 31.00° N, 73.50° E
- Process
- conquest
- Type
- Conquest (armed force)
- Pop
- 9153209
- Area km2
- 151536
- Gaining
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Sikh Empire
Empire on the Indian subcontinent, 1799–1849
The Sikh Empire was a regional power based in the Punjab region of South Asia. It existed from 1799, when maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore, to 1849, when it was defeated and annexed by the British East India Company following the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
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- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation