⚔ Conquest / annexation

Portuguese occupy Malé

1558 – present · 📍 Malé

Portuguese Malé

🗺 See the map in 1558

Where it happened.

Meanwhile (within 10 years)

  1. 1555 ⚔ Humayun recovers Delhi (Battle of Sirhind) · Mughal Empire
  2. 1556 ⚔ Second Battle of Panipat · Mughal Empire
  3. 1559 Drabya Shah founds the Gorkha kingdom · Gorkha Kingdom
  4. 1564 Akbar abolishes the jizya · Mughal Empire
  5. 1565 ⚔ Battle of Talikota · Tuluva Dynasty
  6. 1568 ⚔ Akbar takes Chittorgarh · Mughal Empire

Alive at the time

Srimanta Sankardev
c. 1449 – c. 1568
Assamese saint who founded Ekasarana Dharma and the sattras
Surdas
c. 1478 – c. 1583
Blind Bhakti poet of the Sursagar
Purandara Dasa
c. 1484 – c. 1564
Called the 'father of Carnatic music'
Tansen
c. 1500 – c. 1589
Musician at Akbar's court and one of the Navaratnas
Bairam Khan
1501 – 1561
Regent and guardian of the young Akbar
Gulbadan Begum
1523 – 1603
Babur's daughter who wrote the Humayun-nama
Rani Durgavati
1524 – 1564
Gond queen of Garha-Katanga who died resisting Akbar's army
Birbal
1528 – 1586
Minister and famed wit at Akbar's court

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