| A.D. | GENERAL CHRONOLOGY. | TRANSOXANIA. | DEHLY. |
| 1485 | Battle of Bosworth. — HENRY VII. King of England | BABUR ascends the throne of Ferghana in Transoxania at the age of twelve years | |
| 1488 | His succession is opposed by his uncles | Bheilole Lody dies. — SIKUNDUR LODY King | |
| 1491 | End of the dominion of the Moors in Spain | ||
| 1492 | Columbus discovers Hispaniola and Cuba | ||
| 1494 | ——— discovers the continent of America | The King of Joonpoor endeavours to recover his throne | |
| 1495 | The war carried into Bengal | ||
| 1497 | The Portuguese double the Cape of Good Hope | Babur occupies Samarkand | |
| 1498 | —— abandons Samarkand in order to occupy Ferghana, but loses both capitals | ||
| 1499 | —— retakes Samarkand from Sheebany Khan Oozbuk | ||
| 1500 | The Portuguese discover Brazil | —— evacuates Samarkand | |
| 1503 | —— is expelled from Transoxania by Sheebany Khan | ||
| 1504 | —— seizes on Kabul | ||
| 1505 | Dreadful earthquake at Agra | ||
| 1506 | —— unites with the ruler of Khorassan against the Oozbuks | Hunwuntgur and Nurwur taken from the Hindoos | |
| 1507 | —— attacks the Arghoons, Huzaras, and Khiljies | ||
| 1508 | The Prince Hoomayoon born | ||
| 1509 | HENRY VIII. King of England | ||
| 1510 | Shah Ismael of Persia attacks the Oozbuks, and Sheebany Khan is slain | Chundery occupied by Sikundur Lody, King of Dehly | |
| 1511 | Babur re-occupies Samarkand a third time | ||
| 1513 | The battle of Flodden | ||
| 1517 | Martin Luther begins to flourish | Babur is finally expelled from Transoxania, and retreats to Kabul | Death of Sikundur, and accession of IBRAHIM LODY |
| 1519 | —— invades India the first time, but retires | ||
| 1521 | Mexico conquered by Cortez | —— invades India a second time | |
| 1522 | Circumnavigation of the globe by Magellan | —— invades India a third time | |
| 1525 | —— invades India a fourth time | ||
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| 1526 | The Emperor Charles V. and Francis I. form the treaty of Madrid | BABUR defeats and slays Ibrahim Lody at the battle of Paniput, and lays the foundation of the empire of the Great Mogul | |
| 1527 | Great efforts made by the Indians to expel the Moguls. — The battle of Byana | ||
| 1528 | Babur occupies Chundery and Gualiar | ||
| 1530 | —— dies. — HOOMAYOON, King | ||
| 1533 | War between Hoomayoon and Bahadur Shah of Guzerat. — Battle of Agra | ||
| 1534 | The Protestant religion adopted in England | Bahadur Shah defeated. — Mando and Champanere taken, and Guzerat occupied by the Moguls | |
| 1535 | Insurrection in Bengal. — Bahadur Shah recovers Guzerat out of the hands of the Moguls, and is killed in an affray with the Portuguese at Diù | ||
| 1536 | Hoomayoon proceeds to Bengal — his brothers Hindal and Kamran rebel against him | ||
| 1537 | Exertions made by the Afghans to expel the Moguls | ||
| 1539 | Hoomayoon expelled from India. — SHEER SHAH SOOR, King. — Akbur, the son of Hoomayoon, born in the desert at Amerkote | ||
| 1542 | ———— seeks an asylum at the Persian court | ||
| 1543 | Copernicus dies | Sheer Shah conquers Malwa | |
| 1544 | ———— takes Runtunbhore | ||
| 1545 | Council of Trent opens | ———— besieges Kalunjur — is killed by the bursting of a shell. — SULIM SHAH SOOR, King | |
| 1546 | Martin Luther dies | ||
| 1547 | EDWARD VI. King of England | ||
| 1552 | MAHOMED SHAH SOOR ADILY, King. — Hoomayoon recovers Khorassan and Kabul from his brothers | ||
| 1553 | ————————— raises one Hemoo, a Hindoo shopkeeper, to the office of minister | ||
| 1554 | MARY Queen of England | Dissensions at the court of Dehly. — Hoomayoon is invited to resume the crown | |
| 1555 | Protestants burned and otherwise persecuted in England | Hoomayoon crosses the Indus, and takes Dehly and Agra | |
| 1556 | Death of Hoomayoon. — AKBUR, King. — The Moguls are every where expelled, and fall back to Lahore | ||
| —— | Beiram Khan Toorkoman made regent. — Battle of Dehly, and final re-establishment of the Mogul dynasty | ||
| 1558 | Calais lost to England. — ELIZABETH Queen of England | ||
| 1559 | Mary Queen of Scotland married to the Dauphin of France | The King becomes jealous of Beiram Khan, who quits the court, and revolts | |
| 1560 | Popery abolished in Scotland | Beiram Khan is defeated, but pardoned | |
| 1561 | Mary arrives in Scotland | ———— is assassinated by a soldier on his road to Mecca | |
| 1562 | Akbur conquers Malwa. — Insurrection in Bengal. — Rebellion of Shah Abool Maaly | ||
| 1564 | Death of Calvin | The city of Agra enclosed by a wall of cut red granite | |
| 1566 | Revolt in the Dooab and Joonpoor. — Mahomed Hukeem Mirza, the King's brother, usurps the government of the Punjab | ||
| 1567 | Darnley murdered | ||
| 1568 | Mary Queen of Scotland flies to England | The sons of Mahomed Sooltan Mirza go into rebellion, and find protection in Guzerat | |
| 1569 | The Regent Murray assassinated | Runtunbhore taken by sap | |
| 1570 | William Prince of Orange proclaimed Stadtholder | ||
| 1572 | The massacre of St. Bartholomew's day | Akbur invades Guzerat — is vigorously opposed by the Mirzas, who are eventually expelled | |
| 1573 | —— establishes his power in Guzerat, and persuades the King to reside at Agra as a pensioner | ||
| 1574 | Africa invaded by Don Sebastian, King of Portugal | ||
| 1575 | War in Bengal and Behar, which leads to the final annexation of those kingdoms to Dehly | ||
| 1579 | Treaty of Utrecht | The King's brother, Mahomed Hukeem Mirza, occupies Punjab a second time, but is expelled | |
| 1580 | Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe | Moozuffur Shah, the ex-King of Guzerat, quits Agra, and makes efforts to regain his crown | |
| 1581 | The admirable Crichton dies | ||
| 1582 | The Earl of Gowrie seizes James VI. of Scotland | ||
| 1584 | Sir W. Raleigh discovers Virginia | Overtures made by Boorhan Nizam Shah II. to place him on the throne of Ahmudnuggur | |
| 1585 | Sixtus V. Pope | Akbur holds his court at Lahore, in order to watch the motions of Abdoolla Khan Oozbuk | |
| 1586 | Sir Philip Sidney dies | ||
| 1587 | Mary Queen of Scots beheaded | ||
| 1588 | The Spanish armada destroyed | ||
| 1589 | Henry IV. King of France | ||
| 1590 | The invasion and conquest of Sind by Akbur's general Mirza Khan, the son of Beiram Khan Toorkoman | ||
| 1592 | Presbyterianism established in Scotland | ||
| 1593 | Moozuffur Shah of Guzerat is defeated, and taken prisoner — he puts an end to his life with a razor | ||
| 1594 | Bank of England incorporated | A civil war at Ahmudnuggur, in which Akbur is solicited to take part | |
| 1595 | Moorad Mirza proceeds thither, and besieges Ahmudnuggur. — Peace is concluded. — Berar ceded to Akbur | ||
| 1596 | The English take Cadiz | ||
| 1597 | Death of Abdoolla Khan Oozbuk. — Ahmudnuggur again besieged and taken | ||
| 1599 | Akbur invades the Deccan | ||
| 1600 | The English East India Company first established | —— takes Asseer, and occupies Kandeish, Berar, and part of the country south of the Godavery | |
| 1603 | JAMES I. King of England | ||
| 1604 | Prince Daniel espouses the daughter of Ibrahim Adil Shah II. of Beejapoor. | ||
| 1605 | Gunpowder plot discovered | ———— dies. — Akbur dies | |