Guru Ram Das Becomes Guru

Date: August 30, 1574 • Location: Rome, Italy

Guru Ram Das (pictured) became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual masters of Sikhism.

Guru Ram Das, sometimes spelled as Guru Ramdas, was the fourth of the ten Sikh gurus. He was born to a family based in Lahore. His birth name was Jetha, and he was orphaned at age seven; he thereafter grew up with his maternal grandmother in a village.