Akbar the Great Dies

October 27, 1605

In Agra, the illiterate Mughal emperor who had built an empire from Kabul to the Deccan, invited Jesuits and Hindus to debate religion in his House of Worship, and abolished the tax on non-Muslims, died at sixty-three. His son Jahangir, a poet and opium addict, inherited the most tolerant court in Asia.