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The Mughal Empire
1526 – 1756
Key events
| 1526 · Panipat | First Battle of Panipat |
| 1527 · Khanwa | Battle of Khanwa |
| 1529 · Ghaghra river | Battle of the Ghaghra |
| 1530 · Agra | Death of Babur; Humayun succeeds |
| 1535 · Champaner | Humayun takes Mandu and Champaner |
| 1539 · Chausa | Battle of Chausa |
| 1540 · Kannauj | Battle of Kannauj |
| 1541 · Rohtas | Rohtas Fort begun by Sher Shah |
| 1545 · Kalinjar | Death of Sher Shah at Kalinjar |
| 1555 · Sirhind | Humayun recovers Delhi (Battle of Sirhind) |
| 1556 · Panipat | Second Battle of Panipat |
| 1564 · Agra | Akbar abolishes the jizya |
| 1565 · Talikota | Battle of Talikota |
| 1568 · Chittorgarh | Akbar takes Chittorgarh |
| 1571 · Fatehpur Sikri | Fatehpur Sikri founded |
| 1573 · Ahmedabad | Akbar conquers Gujarat |
| 1576 · Haldighati | Battle of Haldighati |
| 1576 · Rajmahal | Battle of Rajmahal: Mughals take Bengal |
| 1580 · Fatehpur Sikri | Akbar organises the empire into subahs |
| 1582 · Fatehpur Sikri | Akbar's Din-i-Ilahi |
| 1586 · Srinagar | Mughals annex Kashmir |
| 1591 · Hyderabad | Charminar built |
| 1600 | East India Company chartered |
| 1601 · Asirgarh | Asirgarh falls to Akbar |
| 1604 · Amritsar | Adi Granth installed at Harmandir Sahib |
| 1605 · Agra | Death of Akbar |
| 1606 · Lahore | Execution of Guru Arjan Dev |
| 1611 · Machilipatnam | English factory at Masulipatnam |
| 1612 · Suvali near Surat | Battle of Swally |
| 1615 · Ajmer | Sir Thomas Roe at Jahangir's court |
| 1628 · Agra | Shah Jahan becomes emperor |
| 1632 · Agra | Taj Mahal construction begins |
| 1653 · Agra | Taj Mahal completed |
| 1658 · Delhi | Aurangzeb becomes emperor |
| 1671 · Saraighat, Guwahati | Battle of Saraighat |
| 1674 · Raigad | Shivaji crowned Chhatrapati |
| 1690 · Sutanuti | Job Charnock founds Calcutta |
| 1699 · Anandpur Sahib | Guru Gobind Singh founds the Khalsa |
| 1707 · Ahmednagar | Death of Aurangzeb |
| 1739 · Karnal / Delhi | Nadir Shah sacks Delhi |
Key terms
- Jagir
- An assignment of revenue — the way most Mughal mansabdars were paid. (NCERT Class 12, Peasants, Zamindars and the State)
- Jangal
- Dense forest — in Mughal times huge swathes of it, or of scrubland (kharbandi), covered eastern, central and peninsular India. (NCERT Class 12, Peasants, Zamindars and the State)
- Mansabdari
- The Mughal military-cum-bureaucratic system of ranks (mansabs) that ran civil and military affairs. (NCERT Class 12, Peasants, Zamindars and the State)
- Peshkash
- A form of tribute collected by the Mughal state. (NCERT Class 12, Peasants, Zamindars and the State)
- Raiyat
- The term Mughal-era Indo-Persian sources most often used for a peasant. (NCERT Class 12, Peasants, Zamindars and the State)
- Zamindar
- A rural magnate: the Ain-i Akbari records how the Mughal state regulated its relationship with the zamindars. (NCERT Class 12, Peasants, Zamindars and the State)
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Years are from YugMap’s records; dates marked c. are approximate. Printed from yugmap.com.