Mughal Rule

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  • Jan 27, 1516

    Akbar the great comes to power

    Akbar the Great chided Philip for the anti-Protestant excesses of the Spanish Counter-reformation. Spain's Catholic inquisitors had by this time mostly rid the country of Muslims and Jews, so turned their murderous attentions to Protestant Christians instead, particularly in Spanish-ruled Holland.Although Philip II did not heed Akbar's call for religious tolerance, it is indicative of the Mughal emperor's attitudes towards people of other faiths.
  • Apr 21, 1526

    The battle of Painpat

    India's invader, Babur, was the scion of the great Central Asian conqueror-families; his father was a descendant of Timur, while his mother's family traced its roots back to Genghis Khan.
    His father died in 1494, and the 11-year-old Babur became the ruler of Farghana, in what is now the border area between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. However, his uncles and cousins fought Babur for the throne, Babur was not satisfied for long with ruling over Kabul and the surrounding districts alone,
  • Jan 5, 1531

    Humayun succeeds with difficulty

    When Babur swept down out of the valleys of Central Asia to conquer India, he was only one of a long line of such conquerors through history. However, his descendants, the Mughal emperors, built a long-lasting empire that ruled much of the subcontinent until 1868, and that continues to impact the culture of India to this day. Babur was descended from Genghis Khan.

  • Indian revolt

    Queen Elizabeth I granted the BEIC charter in 1600; it continued to exist until 1874, although it lost power over the British Raj in India in 1858.The BEIC began as a simple investment mechanism through which merchants and members of the nobility could pool their money and send ships to Asia in search of valuable cargoes of spices, silk, tea, and other goods. Over time, it developed into a quasi-governmental entity in its own right, with control over a large area and a large private army.

  • Fall of the dynasty

    East India trading company intefered with local political turmoil during England's industrial revolution.