The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.1711

c5.1711

| A.D. | |
| 1503 | Alphonso de Albuquerque erects the first European fortress in India at Cochin, and re-establishes the factory at Calicut. He settled a trade at Kulam and a factory at St. Thomé. |
| 1504 | H. 910. Amīr Barīd I succeeds his father Qāsim I as ruler of Bīdar: till H. 945=A.D. 1538.—PMD. 321. |
| | H. 910. ‘Alāu-d-Dīn, ‘Imād Shāhī, succeeds his father Fatḥ-Allāh of Berār.—PMD. 320. |
| | Naroji of Bikanīr succeeds his uncle Bhīkhaji; but dying the same year is in turn succeeded by his brother Laṅkharañji. |
| 1505 | 6th July, H. 911, 3rd Ṣafar. A terrible earthquake occurs at Agra.—EHI. iv, 465. |
| | H. 911. Death of Sayyid Muḥammad, Jaunpūrī, a son of Mīr Sayyid Khān of Jaunpūr. He claimed to be the Imām Mahdī or “Restorer of Islām.” His disciples still exist in India under the name of Ghair-Mahdvis.—BG. 240. |
| 1506 | H. 912. Dilshād, wazīr of Jām Nanda of Sindh, conquers Uchh.—EHI. i, 275. |
| | H. 912. Death of ‘Abdu-l-Ghafūr of Lahor, pupil of ‘Abdu-r-Raḥman Jāmī.—BOD. 3. |
| | Alphonso de Albuquerque, the founder of the Portuguese Eastern Empire, now commences a career on a larger scale, with a squadron of sixteen ships, having troops on board. He defeated the Zamorin of Calicut, formed a settlement at Goa, which he fortified, sailed to the Straits of Malacca, and took the place of that name in February, 1510, reduced the Molucca and Banda islands, at that time the gardens of the East for cloves, nutmegs, etc., and at last, in 1514, finally reduced Ormus, the chief seat of Persian commerce. In twelve years he raised the Portuguese Empire in India to the greatest height it has ever attained; all the principal emporia from the Cape to the China frontier, an extent of 12,000 miles of coast, being in his possession. |
| 1507 | H. 913. Sikandar II of Delhī, aided by Jalāl Khān, governor of Kalpi, invests the fort of Narwar.—EHI. iv, 466-7. |
| | May, H. 913, Muḥarram. Muḥammad Khān Shaibānī Uzbak invades Khurāsān. Amīr Zū-n-Nūn marches against him in support of Sultan Badī‘u-z-Zamān Mīrzā, but is defeated and slain, his son Shāh Beg Arghūn succeeding him as ruler of Qāndahār.—EHI. i, 304. |