1556

Akbar Wins the Second Battle of Panipat

November 5, 1556

Bairam Khan, regent for the teenage Akbar, crushed the Hindu general Hemu on the same plain where Babur had conquered thirty years earlier. A chance arrow pierced Hemu's eye at the decisive moment. Mughal rule in northern India was restored and would not be seriously challenged for over a century.

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Also in 1556 (5 other events on record)

Akbar Takes the Mughal Throne · South Asia · Politics
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Cranmer Burned at Oxford · Europe · Religion
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Charles V Retires to Yuste · Europe · Politics

Before and after in South Asia

Before: May 22, 1546: Death of Sher Shah Suri
After: 1557: Akbar's Uncle Bairam Khan Regent

Before and after in War

Before: October 2, 1552: Ivan the Terrible Takes Kazan
After: August 10, 1557: Spanish Bankruptcy and Saint-Quentin

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Panipat