Kamat's Potpourri: Chronology of Mogul Kings (original) (raw)

1483 Babur is born in Fergana

1526 Babur defeats Ibrahim, the sultan of Delhi at Panipat

1530 Death of Babur and Humayun assumes power

1540 Afghan Leader Sher Shah defeats Humayun and seizes the empire

1555 Humayun re-conquers Delhi

1556 Humayun dies, young Akbar is enthroned

1562 Akbar, a free thinking Muslim, marries Padmini, a Hindu princess of powerful kingdom Rajaputana

1564 Akbar abolishes Jizya, a tax on non-Muslims

1605 Death of Akbar and succession of son Jahangir

1617 Revolt in the Southern states of the empire breaks out. Jahangir sends son Khurram to pacify them. Khurram received the title of Shah Jahan.

1627 Jahangir dies and Shah Jahan assumes the throne, crushing his rivals

1631 Shah Jahan's queen Mamtaz dies during childbirth; Shah Jahan commissions the building of her tomb, the Taj Mahal

1658 Shah Jahan's son Aurangajeb executes his brothers, imprisons his father and ascends to the throne of Delhi.

1666 Death of Shah Jahan

1679 Jijya is re-imposed; Aurangjeb's accesses into Deccan

1707 Aurangjeb dies

1739 Invading Persians massacre Delhi

Weak Mogul Empire Collapses. The Europeans establish themselves in India after 1857 riots

1862 Bahadur Shah II the last of the Mogul rulers dies. India becomes a British Colony.