Nadir Shah sacks Delhi
1739 · Event
Persian invader takes the Peacock Throne and Koh-i-Noor diamond; Mughal power broken.
On these timelines: Master, Persia and Iran, India
Around 1739
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)