Place, in time

What was happening in Delhi in 1526?

2 sourcesDrawn from Satya’s sourced local record.

Mughal Empire (1526): Formally dissolved after the Great Revolt; Bahadur Shah Zafar exiled to Rangoon Babur (1526): Founded Mughal rule after victory at the First Battle of Panipat. Qutb Minar (1220): Victory tower and minaret begun by the Delhi Sultanate; the tallest brick minaret in the world, already three centuries old when this slice opens.

What the record shows

• Mughal Empire (1526)polity
  Formally dissolved after the Great Revolt; Bahadur Shah Zafar exiled to Rangoon
• Babur (1526)person
  Founded Mughal rule after victory at the First Battle of Panipat.
• First Battle of Panipat (1526)event
  Babur's field guns and cavalry tactics destroy Ibrahim Lodi's much larger army. The Delhi Sultanate ends; Mughal rule begins.
• Battle of Khanwa (1527)event
  Babur defeats Rana Sanga's Rajput confederacy, securing the new empire's survival.
• Qutb Minar (1220)place
  Victory tower and minaret begun by the Delhi Sultanate; the tallest brick minaret in the world, already three centuries old when this slice opens.

Sources

• Curated ruler/event facts (project editors) (no public link on record) — editor-written from standard reference histories; pending per-fact primary citations
• Wikipedia (English) — tertiary; used for cross-checking and reader deep-links · CC-BY-SA 4.0 (text)

Local selection uses recorded points and capitals; it does not claim that a capital point proves territorial control of every nearby coordinate.

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