Year Date and Month Event
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Towards the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century Iqbal's ancestors migrated from Kashmir and settled down in Sialkot, in Mohalla Khatikan.

1877 9 November
Iqbal was born in Sialkot.

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He obtained his early education in the maktab of Maulana Ghulam Hasan and Allama Syed Mir Hasan.

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He was admitted to Mission High School, Sialkot.

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"While he was at school he started composing verses." (Sir Abdul Qadar).

1891 *
As a student of Mission High School, Sialkot, he passed the Anglo-Vernacular Middle School Examination from the Punjab University. 1892

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Started composing verses in a regular way. His ghazal was published in the November issue of Zaban, Delhi; This ghazal is so far considered his earliest published ghazal.

1893 *
He went to Gujrat to take the Entrance (High School) Examination.