⚔ Battle
Battle of Diu
1509 – present · 📍 Diu
Portuguese naval victory over a Gujarati-Mamluk fleet.
What it led to: Portuguese naval supremacy in the Arabian Sea was established.
Where it happened.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1504 Sikandar Lodi founds Agra · Lodi Dynasty
- 1505 Portuguese reach Sri Lanka · Kingdom of Kotte
- 1509 Krishnadevaraya's accession · Tuluva Dynasty
- 1510 ⚔ Portuguese capture Goa · Portuguese Estado da Índia
Alive at the time
Kabir
c. 1440 – c. 1518
Bhakti poet-saint of Varanasi known for his dohas
Srimanta Sankardevc. 1449 – c. 1568
Assamese saint who founded Ekasarana Dharma and the sattras
Vasco da Gamac. 1460 – c. 1524
Portuguese navigator who reached Calicut in 1498
Guru Nanak1469 – 1539
Founder of Sikhism and the first Sikh Guru
Malik Muhammad Jayasic. 1477 – c. 1542
Author of the Awadhi epic Padmavat
Surdasc. 1478 – c. 1583
Blind Bhakti poet of the Sursagar
Purandara Dasac. 1484 – c. 1564
Called the 'father of Carnatic music'
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu1486 – 1534
Bhakti saint of Bengal who inspired Gaudiya Vaishnavism
🕸 Connections 27 links
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🗂 Era 1
- Modern IndiaPart of this era
⏳ Periods 1
- European Maritime PowersBelongs to this period
🏛 Kingdoms & empires 12
- Portuguese Cochin 1503 – 1663Part of it
- Portuguese Bassein & Bombay 1534 – 1739Part of it
- Portuguese Diu 1535 – 1961Part of it
- Portuguese Malé 1558 – 1573Part of it
- Portuguese Daman 1559 – 1961Part of it
- Portuguese Hooghly 1579 – 1632Part of it
- Sultanate of the Maldives 1153 – 1968Existed at the same time (456 years)
- Malla Dynasty of Nepal 1201 – 1769Existed at the same time (264 years)
- Ahom Kingdom 1228 – 1826Existed at the same time (321 years)
- Mewar (Sisodia) 1326 – 1949Existed at the same time (444 years)
- Vijayanagara Empire 1336 – 1646Existed at the same time (141 years)
- Kingdom of Mysore 1399 – 1950Existed at the same time (445 years)
👑 Rulers 1
- Afonso de Albuquerque 1509 – 1515Ruled it
👤 People 2
- Vasco da Gama c. 1460 – c. 1524Lived under it
- Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552Lived under it
⚔ Events 2
- Battle of Diu 1509Happened in it
- Portuguese capture Goa 1510Happened in it
📍 Places & sites 1
- Basilica of Bom Jesus, Goa 1605A place of this polity
🔧 Technology 3
- The first printing press September 1556Made or discovered in this time
- Jantar Mantar observatory early 18th centuryMade or discovered in this time
- The first passenger train 16 April 1853Made or discovered in this time
📄 Research 2
- Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia Sanjay Subrahmanyam · 1997Research on this topic
- The Portuguese, the port of Basrur, and the rice trade, 1600-50 Sanjay Subrahmanyam · 1984Research on this topic
📚 Books 2
- Our Pasts I, II & III (Classes 6–8) NCERTRecommended reading
- Themes in Indian History, Parts I–III (Class 12) NCERTRecommended reading