Mahmud of Ghazni invades India
1001–1027 · Event
Seventeen raids extract massive plunder and devastate temples in north India.
On these timelines: Master, India
Around 1001
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- The Tale of Genji written (1008)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- William the Conqueror (1028)
- The Tale of Genji (1008)
- Almoravid Empire founded (1050)