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Appendix 3 – Chronological Summary

A.D.
1556 Battle of Panipat: Akbar king of Delhi.
1560–2 Jaunpur, Malwa, Burhanpur annexed.
1567 Akbar storms Chitor.
1569 Founding of Fathpur-Sikri.
1572–3 Gujarat annexed.
1574 The Hall of Worship built at Fathpur-Sikri.
1575 Conquest of Bengal.
1582 Todar Mal makes a new assessment of lands.
1587 Kashmir, 1592 Sind, 1594 Kandahar annexed.
1599 Conquest of Ahmadnagar in the Deccan.
1600 Conquest of Asir in Khandesh.
1600 Incorporation of the first East India Company.
1605 Death of Akbar.
1609–11 Hawkins at the court of Jahangir : English factory at Surat.
1615–18 Sir Thomas Roe’s embassy to Jahangir.
1616 Shah Jahan’s campaign in the Deccan.
1622 Kandahar taken by Persia, recovered 1637, lost again 1648.
1623 Pietro della Valle in India.
1624 Rebellion of Shah Jahan against Jahangir and Nur Jahan.
1627 Death of Jahangir.
1631 Suppression of the Portuguese at Hugli.
1635 Shah Jahan reduces Bijapur to tributary dependence.
1638 Mandelslo at Agra.
1640 Manrique in India.
1646 Death of Nur Jahan.
1648 Completion of the Taj Mahal at Agra.

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1648 New Delhi, Shahjahanabad, built.
1648 Sivaji raids the Konkan.
1649–52 Aurangzib fails to recover Kandahar from the Persians.
1655 Aurangzib viceroy in the Deccan.
1656 Golkonda attacked; Bidar and Kulbarga annexed.
1658 War of succession : battle of Samugarh.
1659 Accession of Aurangzib: death of Shah Jahan, 1666.
1659–66 Bernier at the court of Aurangzib.
1665 Tavernier in India.
1666 Suppression of Portuguese pirates in Arakan.
1671 Sivaji sacks Surat : Marathas supreme in the Deccan.
1672 Satnami rebellion in Mewat.
1676 Reimposition of the jizya, or poll-tax.
1680 War with the Raj puts.
1681 Aurangzib takes Command against the Marathas.
1686 Fall of Bijapur, and 1687 of Golkonda.
1695 Gemelli Careri at Aurangzib’s camp in the Deccan.
1707 Death of Aurangzib.
1708 Revolt of the Sikhs.
1738 The Marathas advance to Delhi.
1739 Nadir Shah sacks Delhi.
1748 Afghan invasion under Ahmad Shah routed at Sirhind.
1756 Ahmad Shah sacks Delhi.
1757 Battle of Plassey: Clive defeats the Nawab.
1761 Battle of Panipat : defeat of the Marathas.
1764 Battle of Baxar: the Great Moghul becomes a pensioner of the East India Company.

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