Few facts about Dogra rule in Jammu and Kashmir

RULERS AND WARS :

1792 = Birth of Maharaja Gulab Singh

1808 = Maharaja Gulab Singh defended Jammu against Sikh.

1809 = Maharaja Gulab Singh enlisted in Ranjit Singh's army.

1812 = Raja Dhian Singh joins Sikh army.

1816 = Maharaja Gulab Singh conquer Multan for Sikh empire.

1816 = Maharaja Gulab Singh conquer Reasi.

1821 = Maharaja Gulab Singh conquered Rajouri from Aghar Khan.

1821 = Maharaja Gulab Singh conquered Kishtwar from Raja Tegh Muhammad Singh.

1821 = Maharaja Gulab Singh took part in the Sikh conquest of Dera Ghazi Khan.

1821 = Maharaja Gulab Singh captured and executed his own clansman, Dido Jamwal,

1821 = Maharaja Gulab Singh ousted Bhupendra Dev from Ramnagar

1821 = Maharaaja Gulab Singh conquered Kishtwar Raja Mohd Teg Singh surrendered  without any resistance

1822 = Maharaja Gulab Singh was confirmed as Raja of Jammu by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

1822 = Maharaja Gulab Singh was sent on an expedition against Azam Khan of Tihri on the   frontier. 

1822 = Raja Suchet Singh appointed as Raja of Samba.

1824 = Maharaja Gulab Singh captured the fort of Samartah.

1827 = Maharaja Gulab Singh defeated a horde 

of Afghan rebels led by the fanatic Sayyid Ahmed.

1827 = Raja Dhian Singh titled the raja of chibbal and bimbher.

1829 = Maharaja Gulab Ranbir Singh, born at Ramgarh 

1831-39 = Maharaja Gulab Singh got the jagir of the salt mines in northern Punjab, and  Punjabi towns       Bhera,                        Jhelum, Rohtas, and Gujrat.

1833 = Maharaja Gulab Singh  designated  Zorawar Singh  as 

Titular Raja of Bhadarwah and was termed as Chhota Raja.

1834 = Dogra army invaded Ladakh under Zorawar Singh

1841 = Zorawar Singh advanced up the Indus and conquered Rudok and Garo 

1841 = Zorawar Singh  with 5000 Dogras and Laddakhi with a pledge not to return to Leh till had conquered Lhasa. 

1841  = At a height of about sixteen thousand feet above sea level proved disastrous for Zorawar  Singh who died fighting.

1841 =  Both Dhian Singh, the ablest leader and Prime Minister of the Lahore Kingdom, and Suchet Singh c-o- c of Sikh army were brutally murdered. 

1842) by Diwan Hari Chand and Wazir Ratnu on behalf of Gulab Singh and Kalon Surkhan and Depon Pishy on behalf of Dalai Lama. By this treaty, the traditional boundary between Ladakh and Tibet 'as recognized by both sides since olden times,' was accepted as boundary between Jammu and Tibet. The village and area around Minsar near Mansarover lake which was held by the Rajas of Ladakh since 1583 was, however, retained by the Jammu government. 

1842 = Astore was occupied by Nathu Shah and Gaur Rahman was defeated. Though recalled for a short time, during which Gaur Rahman inflicted a defeat on the sikhs, Nathu Shah was sent back again, and successfully pacified the border, taking in marriage the daughters of Gaur Rahman, and of the Mirs of Hunza and Nagar Karim Khan,

1846 = Maharaja Gulab Singh was given full powers to negotiate on behalf of the Lahore Darbar

1846 = 16 march 1846 Kashmir valley was annexed in Dogra riyasat after paying Rs. 75 lacs,

1852 = A powerful force under Dewan Hari Chand, Colonel Buji Singh, Colonel Jowahir,and Dewan Thakurdas was despatched in the spring of 1852. As soon as the winter was over Chilas was surrounded and besieged.  1856, Maharaja Gulab Singh formally installed Ranbir Singh on the gadi and himself accepted the position of Governor of Kashmir Territories, 

1858 =  Died at the age of 66 Maharaja Gulab Singh was one of the most Remarkable men that India produced in the 19th century. There had been others in the eighteenth century, such as Haidar-Ali and Maha- raja Scindia, who, beginning their life in obscurity, founded kingdoms and dynasties. But his is the only case in nineteenth-century India where a man beginning as a petty official in a Court conquered kingdoms and territories and established himself as a Sovereign. In a century barren of historical achievement in India Gulab Singh stands out as a solitary figure of political eminence.  

1860 = Gilgit was finally added  in Dogra  kingdom.

1870 = Ponial, Yasin, Darel, Hunza and Nagar by the maharaja Ranbir Singh

1876 = Chitral also accepted his sovereignty of Dogra kingdom.

1877 = An agreement was reached with Maharaja Ranbir Singh for the establishment of a Political Agency at Gilgit.

1880 = Maharaja Ranbir Singh took up the construction of a cart road from Srinagar to Rawalpindi (Pakistan).

1885 = Maharaja Ranbir Singh passed away.

1895 = Raj Rajeshwar Maharaja Adhiraj Maharaja Hari Singh Bahadur, Inder Mahinder, Separ-Saltanat­i Inglishia, G.C.S. I, G.C.I.E, K.C.V.0, was born

1889 = when the Jhelum Valley Card Road, "the most wonderful mountain road in the world", from Kohala to Baramulla was completed. It was extended to Srinagar In 

1897.

1905 = Sri Pratap College established at Srinagar

1907 = Prince of Wales College, established at Jammu

1922 = Another great highway, the Banihal Cart Road, which connected Srinagar, the summer capital, with Jammu and the winter capital of the state was thrown open to the public.

1929 = marriage of boys and girls under 18 and 14 years respectively was forbidden.

1930 = A nationalist at heart, the Maharaja went to attend the First Round Table Conference at London in, and addressed it in the following words:

"As the Allies of Britain, we stand solidly by the British connection. As Indians and loyal to the land of our birth, we stand as solidly as the rest of our countrymen for our India's enjoyment of a position of honour and equality in the British Common- wealth".

1932 = Muslim conference formed under President Ship of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.

1934 = Maharaja Hari Singh sanctioned the creation of a Legislative Assembly called the Jammu and Kashmir Praja Sabha

1939 = Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah broke away from the Muslim Conference and established a new party, the National Conference.

1937 = The Department of Rural Development was established.

1943 = Maharaja Gulab Singh Hospital opened at Jammu.

1938 = The Jammu and Kashmir Bank was established and it took over the government treasury both at Srinagar and Jammu. 

1939 =  Hari Singh appointed Yuvraj Karan Singh, who at that time was hardly seven years old, as 2nd Lieutenant in the State Forces.

1940 = Jawaharlal Nehru's visit to Kashmir.

1941 = Maharaja Hari Singh helped the British during the Second World War with men and money. He also personally visited the Middle East to boost the morale of his men fighting on the front.

1944 = Maharaja Hari Singh again went abroad, and met a section of his troops in Persia.

1944 = Mohammad Ali Jinnah also visited Kashmir. Jinnah had been in Srinagar for about six weeks during which he made the futile bid to sell the two-nation theory to Sheikh Abdullah.

1949 = Dr. Karan Singh was appointed Regent by his father on the intervention of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Thereafter he was head of the Indian State of Jammu & Kashmir for the next eighteen years as Regent, as elected Sadar-i-Riyasat and lastly as Governor.