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Uttar Pradesh

1805 CE
395 BCE1997 CE
3 polities active
Mughal Empire
Era unknown

1526 – 1857

Ruler

Unknown

Capital

Shahjahanabad (Delhi)

now Delhi

1648 – present

Maratha Confederacy
Era unknown

1674 – 1818

Ruler

Unknown

Capital

Raigad

now Raigad Fort

1674 – present

Sikh Empire
Era unknown

1799 – 1849

Ruler

Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Maharaja Ranjit Singh

24 years old

Maharaja

12 April 1801 – 27 June 1839

Capital

Lahore

1799 – present

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Events

  • Ashoka's Conversion to Buddhism

    Ashoka adopts Buddhism and the policy of Dhamma after the Kalinga War.

    Ashoka's Conversion to Buddhism

    261 BCE

Places

  • Agra

    Mughal capital, home to the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort.

    Agra

    1504
  • FS

    Planned capital built by Akbar, a masterpiece of Mughal architecture.

    Fatehpur Sikri

    1571
  • Kannauj

    Imperial capital of Harsha and prize of the medieval tripartite struggle.

    Kannauj

    4th century
  • Mathura

    Ancient sacred city, birthplace of Krishna and a Kushan art centre.

    Mathura

    6th century BCE
  • Sarnath

    Site where the Buddha delivered his first sermon, near Varanasi.

    Sarnath

    5th century BCE

Districts

Agra2 places
  • Aligarh
  • Allahabad
  • Ambedkar Nagar
  • Auraiya
  • Azamgarh
  • Baghpat
  • Bahraich
  • Ballia
  • Balrampur
  • Banda
  • Bara Banki
  • Bareilly
  • Basti
  • Bijnor
  • Budaun
  • Bulandshahr
  • Chandauli
  • Chitrakoot
  • Deoria
  • Etah
  • Etawah
  • Faizabad
  • Farrukhabad
  • Fatehpur
  • Firozabad
  • Gautam Buddha Nagar
  • Ghaziabad
  • Ghazipur
  • Gonda
  • Gorakhpur
  • Hamirpur
  • Hardoi
  • Jalaun
  • Jaunpur
  • Jhansi
  • Jyotiba Phule Nagar
  • Kannauj
  • Kanpur Dehat
  • Kanpur Nagar
  • Kansiram Nagar
  • Kaushambi
  • Kheri
  • Kushinagar
  • Lalitpur
  • Lucknow
  • Mahamaya Nagar
  • Maharajganj
  • Mahoba
  • Mainpuri
  • Mathura1 place
  • Mau
  • Meerut
  • Mirzapur
  • Moradabad
  • Muzaffarnagar
  • Pilibhit
  • Pratapgarh
  • Rae Bareli
  • Rampur
  • Saharanpur
  • Sant Kabir Nagar
  • Sant Ravi Das Nagar(bhadohi)
  • Shahjahanpur
  • Shrawasti
  • Siddharth Nagar
  • Sitapur
  • Sonbhadra
  • Sultanpur
  • Unnao
  • Varanasi1 place