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
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- US Constitution (1787)