⚔ Battle

Battle of Rajmahal: Mughals take Bengal

1576 – present · 📍 Rajmahal
What it led to: Daud Khan Karrani was killed and Bengal became a Mughal province.

Mughal Empire

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Where it happened.

Meanwhile (within 10 years)

  1. 1568 ⚔ Akbar takes Chittorgarh · Mughal Empire
  2. 1571 Fatehpur Sikri founded · Mughal Empire
  3. 1573 ⚔ Akbar conquers Gujarat · Mughal Empire
  4. 1573 Muhammad Thakurufaanu frees the Maldives · Sultanate of the Maldives
  5. 1576 ⚔ Battle of Haldighati · Mewar (Sisodia)
  6. 1580 Akbar organises the empire into subahs · Mughal Empire
  7. 1582 Akbar's Din-i-Ilahi · Mughal Empire
  8. 1586 ⚔ Mughals annex Kashmir · Mughal Empire

Alive at the time

Surdas
c. 1478 – c. 1583
Blind Bhakti poet of the Sursagar
Tansen
c. 1500 – c. 1589
Musician at Akbar's court and one of the Navaratnas
Gulbadan Begum
1523 – 1603
Babur's daughter who wrote the Humayun-nama
Birbal
1528 – 1586
Minister and famed wit at Akbar's court
Tulsidas
c. 1532 – c. 1623
Author of the Ramcharitmanas
Abdul Qadir Badayuni
c. 1540 – c. 1615
Historian who wrote the Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh
Abul Fazl
1551 – 1602
Author of the Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
1556 – 1627
Poet of the Rahim ke dohe and general of Akbar

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