The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.1662

c5.1662

1475 5th December, H. 880, 6th Sha‘bān. Birth of Khalīl Khān, fourth son of Maḥmūd Baiqarah, and eventual successor as Muẓaffar Shāh II. Firishtah gives the date of his birth as 20th Sha‘bān, H. 875.—BG. 200. BF. iv, 79. H. 880 (880-905 on coins). Ghiyāṣ Shāh, Khaljī of Mālava, succeeds his father Maḥmūd Shāh I: till A.D. 1500.—BMC., Muhammadan States, Int. liii. H. 880. Khondamīr, the historian, born at Hirāt. He was the son of Amīr Khāwand Shāh (Mirkhand) and author of the Khulāsatu-l-Akhbār (H. 904), the Ḥabību-s-siyar, etc. Compelled in H. 933 = A.D. 1526-7 to quit Hirāt, he visited Hindustan with Maulānā Shihābu-d-Dīn and Mīrzā Ibrāhīm Qānūnī, arriving at Agra 4th Muḥarram, H. 935 (18th September, 1528). He remained at Bābar's court and died in H. 942 (A.D. 1535) on an expedition to Mandū on which he had accompanied the Emperor.—BOD. 217. H. 880. Death of Shaikh Shāh ‘Ālim of Gujarāt, son of the Sayyid Burhānu-d-Dīn Bukhārī.—BG. 198.