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Oct 14, 1542
Akbar's Birth
"After his defeat in the hands of Sher Shah, Humayun fled from place to place to save his life. Suffering great hardship, he travelled through the deserts of Sindhu and at last reached as place named Amarkot. The Hindu King of that small kingdom gave him shelter out of kindness. It was at that place that Humayun’s wife Hamida Banu Begum gave birth to a son on 23 November 1542. That child was Akbar."
- Nivedita Mukherjee -
Feb 14, 1556
Akbar's Coronation
"AKBAR the great Mughal Emperor 1556 – 1605 was coronated at a place situated at a distance of 2 Kms East of Kalanaur. HUMAYUN, the father of Akbar, died on 26 January 1556 in Delhi in a fatal accident while climbing down the stairs of Din-I-Pannah library also known as Sher – Mandal. At the time of coronation, Akbar was only 13 years 3 months old. At the time of his father’s death he was accompanying his tutor BAIRAM KHAN and was staying at Kalanaur."
- NRI Commission of Punjab -
Nov 5, 1556
Second Battle of Panipat
"The second battle (Nov. 5, 1556) ended in a victory for Bayram Khān, the guardian of the young Mughal emperor Akbar, over Hemu, the Hindu general of an Afghan claimant who had proclaimed himself independent. It marked the restoration of Mughal power after the expulsion of the emperor Humāyūn by the Afghan Shēr Shah of Sūr in 1540."
- Encyclopedia Britannica -
Feb 6, 1562
Akbar's Marriage with Mariam-uz-Zamani
"Throughout his reign Akbar expanded the Mughal empire, using a combination of diplomacy, marriage alliances and military conquest. He allowed the Hindu Rajput rulers of Rajasthan to hold their territories if they accepted him as emperor, paid regular tribute, supplied troops when needed and agreed to marriage alliances. Where they resisted he did not refrain from massacres. In 1562 Akbar accepted the offer of marriage with a Rajput princess."
- Flinders Education -
Mar 17, 1563
Akbar's abolishing of Jizya and the Pilgrim Tax
"Akbar found that the pilgrim tax was morally wrong both because it was imposed on people who came “in search of the light of God” and because it was not uniform but arbitrary, variable according to the whim of the collector of the tax. He abolished the pilgrim tax all throughout his empire. Akbar also abolished jizya, the poll-tax which was imposed on the non-Muslims, for its imposition, to his mind, hindered emotional integration of his subjects into one united brotherhood."
- Important India -
Jan 16, 1572
Akbar's Conquest of Gujurat
"Gujarat was a prosperous province. It was regarded as the centre place of the trade with the western world. Akbar attacked Gujarat in person in 1572 A.D. He did not face any serious challenge and Ahmedabad was occupied by the Mughals after a minor battle. Akbar occupied territory as far as Cambay and occupied the fort of Surat. That completed the conquest of Gujarat."
- Jupiter Infomedia Ltd. -
Jan 1, 1576
Battle of Haldighati
"Mughal Emperor Akbar came to power in 1556, allying himself with the northwest rajputs. The new emperor soon adopted Indian ways of waging war from war Elephants to the Bagh Nakh, or "tiger claw". Rajput nobles were recruited, along with their peasant troops armies of up to half a million troops were mobilized. Akbar the Great spent almost all his reigning life at war." -
Akbar's Death
"Ten days after his sixty-third birthday, the greatest of the Great Moguls (or Mughals) died of dysentery in his capital of Agra. A ruler since his teens, Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar had brought two-thirds of the Indian sub-continent into an empire which included Afghanistan, Kashmir and all of present-day India and Pakistan. His subjects acclaimed him ‘Lord of the Universe"
- History Today