Person1483 – 1530

Babur

Also called: Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur

Founder of the Mughal Empire (r. 1526–1530), a descendant of Timur who overthrew the Delhi Sultanate at the Battle of Panipat

Son of Umar Shaikh, ruler of Ferghana, he succeeded his father at eleven. He took and lost Samarkand three times and, pushed back by the Uzbeks, moved to Kabul in 1504. He defeated Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat in 1526 and a Rajput coalition at Khanwa in 1527, winning northern India. His Turkic memoir, the Baburnama, records nature, gardens and people as well as war.

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1526 – 1857Babur Founds the Mughal Empireleader
Babur, a descendant of Timur, defeated Ibrahim Lodi of the Delhi Sultanate at the Battle of Panipat and founded the Mughal Empire.

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Ibrahim Lodi1526
Last sultan of Delhi of the Lodi dynasty (r. 1517–1526), killed fighting Babur at the Battle of Panipat

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Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own
Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence