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Mughal Emperor

11 dated entries naming Mughal Emperor, drawn from 8 separate years between 1562 CE and 1764 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1562Mughal Emperor Akbar conquers Malwa, and its last Sultan, Baz Bahadur, flees.source

17th century

  • 1605October 27 – Akbar The Great, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)source
  • 1605October 27 – The 3rd Mughal Emperor, Akbar "the Great", dies of dysentery at Fatehpur Sikri in India.source
  • 1638March 22 – Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his sons capture the city of Kandahar from the Safavids.source
  • 1638May 13 – Construction begins on the Red Fort in Delhi (India) for Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan who is transferring his capital there from Agra.source

18th century

  • 1707June 8 – Less than three months after proclaiming himself to be the new Emperor of India, Muhammad Azam Shah and his three sons are killed in a battle by his troops led by his half-brother Muhammad Mu'azzamsource
  • 1719February 28 – Farrukhsiyar, the Mughal Emperor of India since 1713, is deposed by the Sayyid brothers, who install Rafi ud-Darajat in his place. In prison, Farrukhsiyar is strangled by assassins on April 19.source
  • 1719September 29 – Muhammad Shah is crowned as the 12th Mughal Emperor of India at Shahjahanabad (modern-day Delhi), 12 days after the death of Shah Jahan II from tuberculosis.source
  • 1724July 31 – The Hyderabad State is created in India, as Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah rewards his associate Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan. Qamar-ud-din becomes the first Nizam of Hyderabad. The princely state exists for more than 220 years, coming to an end after India's independence from Britain.source
  • 1725December 23 – Ahmad Shah Bahadur, 14th Mughal Emperor (d. 1775)source
  • 1764October 22 – Battle of Buxar: The British East India Company defeats the combined armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal, the Nawab of Awadh, and Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II.source

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