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Mughal Emperor

22 dated entries naming Mughal Emperor, drawn from 16 separate years between 1530 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

  • 1530Babur's death ends his reign as Mughal emperor, and is succeeded by Humayun.source
  • 1556January 27 – Humayun, 2nd Mughal Emperor (born 1508)source
  • 1562Mughal Emperor Akbar conquers Malwa, and its last Sultan, Baz Bahadur, flees.source
  • 1586February 16 – In what is now Buner District, Pakistan, Kalu Khan leads his Yousafzai-Afghan Lashkar to defeat the Mughal Army at the Karakar Pass in the Afghan-Mughal War, annihilating them by the 10s of thousands and inflicting one of the greatest defeats in Mughal history to Emperor of India Akbar the Great known as Battle of the Malandari Pass.source

17th century

  • 160515 October – End of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar (reigned since 1556).source
  • 160515 October – Akbar, Mughal Emperor died in the age of 63 in Agra, Mughal India.source
  • 1605October 27 – Akbar The Great, Mughal emperor (born 1542)source
  • 1605October 27 – The 3rd Mughal Emperor, Akbar "the Great", dies of dysentery at Fatehpur Sikri in India.source
  • 1613Amar Singh Rathore, a Rajput nobleman affiliated with the royal house of Marwar, and a courtier of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, on 11 Decembersource
  • 1618November 3 – Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor of India (died 1707)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
  • 1643October 14 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (died 1712)source
  • 1666January 22 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (born 1592)source

18th century

  • 1707March 3 – Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (born 1618)source
  • 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
  • 1712February 27 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (born 1643)source
  • 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 (died 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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