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**A.D.** 1483 Birth of Bābur (p. 3). 1489 (or earlier)¹ Birth of Farīd Khān (Sher Shāh) (p. 45). 1494 Bābur succeeds his father in Farghāna (p. 4). 1497 Bābur captures Samarqand (p. 4). 1504 Bābur occupies Kābul (p. 5). 1505, 1507 Bābur raids into India (pp. 5, 6, 10). 1508 Birth of Humāyūn (p. 5). 1511 Bābur seizes Samarqand again (p. 7). 1512 Bābur abandons attempts on trans-Oxiana (p. 8). 1516 ʿAskarī born. 1519 Bābur takes Bājaur (p. 10). Birth of Abu-ʼn-Nāsir Hindāl. 1520 Humāyūn appointed governor of Badakhshān (p. 43). 1525 Bābur leaves Kābul for India (p. 12). 1526 Humāyūn takes Hissār Fīrūza (p. 12). Battle of Pānīpat (p. 13). 1527 Battle of Khānua (p. 17). 1528 Chanderī taken (p. 17). 1529 Battle of the Gogra (p. 17). 1530 Death of Bābur and succession of Humāyūn (p. 18). 1531 Battle of Daunrūā (pp. 21 and 49). 1533 Rebellion of the Mīrzās (p. 22). 1534 Humāyūn moves to Gwalior (p. 22). 1535 Bahādur Shāh of Gujarāt defeated and flies to Māndū (p. 23). Capture of Chāmpāner (p. 25). 1536 ʿAskarī leaves Gujarāt (p. 26). Mālwā abandoned (p. 27). 1537 Death of Bahādur Shāh of Gujarāt (p. 28). Capture of Chunār (p. 29). 1538 Sher Khān defeats Mahmūd Shāh of Bengal (p. 29). Humāyūn enters Gaur (p. 30). 1539 Sher Khān defeats Humāyūn at Chausa and assumes sovereignty (pp. 33, 51). 1540 Humāyūn again defeated near Kanauj (p. 34). Humāyūn retreats towards Sind (p. 36). 1541 Humāyūn marries Hamīda Begam (p. 38). 1542 Birth of Akbar (p. 39). Death of Mahmūd Lodī (p. 49). Sher Shāh invades Mālwā (p. 52). 1543 Sher Shāh takes Rāisen (p. 53) and invades Rājputāna (p. 54). Humāyūn, defeated by Shāh Mīrzā Husain, leaves Sind (p. 40). 1544 Humāyūn arrives in Persia (p. 40). 1545 Death of Sher Shāh (p. 55). Succession of Islām Shāh (p. 58). Humāyūn takes Qandahār (p. 40) and Kābul (p. 41).