The Golden Era Mogul Empire

By msrfss
  • Apr 21, 1526

    Battle of Panipat

    Launches the empire into creation. Barbur the first Emperor of the Mogul Empire defeats the Sultanate of Delhi to start conquest of India.
  • Mar 17, 1527

    Battle of Khanwa

    Babur defeats the large army of the Rajput Princes to take control of the entirety of North of India.
  • Dec 26, 1530

    Death of the First Emperor

    Barbur dies and is succeed by his son Humayan.
  • Jul 11, 1543

    The Empire in Exile

    Leader of the Sher Shah Suri drives Humayan in exile in modern day Afghanistan, only seven years after the great Barbur died.
  • 1554

    The meeting of the Muslim Emperors

    While in exile Humayan is housed briefly by the Safavid Muslim Emperor in Persia.
  • Jul 23, 1556

    The reconquering of Mogul India

    Discord between Successors allows Humayan to reconquer northern India. This is after being in exile for 19 years.
  • Jan 17, 1557

    The Stairs are at it again!

    Not even a year after reconquering North India Humayan falls down the stairs and dies. He is succeeded by his 14 year old son Akbar, later known as Akbar the Great.
  • 1560

    Combining Central and Northern India

    Akbar defeats the princes of central India (modern Pakistan and Bangladesh) to consolidate he hold on Northern and Central India. This last about 20 years between the 1560's and 1570's.

  • The death of the Greatest Emperor

    Akbar dies of old age in 1605 and is succeeded by his son and lesser man Jahangir. Mind you this was the son who had tried to usurp the throne once already from his father.

  • The British start interfering!

    The Portuguese had been the largest trading company and Christian influence in India until the British defeated them and set up the first warehouse in India. The beginning of the end for the Mogul Empire.

  • The Ambassador arrives

    There hadn't really been any European Ambassadors in India prior to the arrival of Sir Thomas Roe from England. Even the Portuguese didn't have an ambassador they chose instead to send Priests with the hopes of converting the Emperor. This shift in Diplomacy cried more respect then disrespect as before.

  • Art in the Empire

    During the 1620's under the rule of Jahangir's rule, more like at the behest of Empress Nur Jahan, Mogul art scene reached a high point.

  • Death of the Emperor

    Jahangir dies and is succeed by his son Shah Jahan. This Emperor ruled beside his silent partner his wife and niece of Empress Nur Jahan.

  • The End of Religious Tolerance

    Shah Jahan ends religious tolerance and destroys several newly built Hindu temples to prove a point.

  • The most beautiful tomb

    Shah Jahan starts construction on the geometrical/symmetrical Taj Mahal for his favorite and second wife Mumtaz Mahal.

  • Overspending can lead to Imprisonment

    In 1658 Aurangzeb imprisoned his father for almost bankrupting the Empire on the amount of money he was spending on building the Taj Mahal. Aurangzeb imprisoned his father in the Red Fort in Agra where he could always seen the Taj Mahal until the day he died.

  • End of the Golden Era

    Although Aurangzeb imprisoned his father he was a wonderful Emperor. When he died in 1707 this marked the end of the Golden Era of the Mogul Empire and the start of it's decline at the hands of the British Empire.