Renaissance · South Asia · Culture
1631
Mumtaz Mahal Dies
June 17, 1631
Shah Jahan's beloved wife Arjumand Banu Begum, the Mughal empress he called Mumtaz Mahal, died giving birth to their fourteenth child in a military camp on the Deccan. The grief-stricken emperor would spend the next two decades building her a marble tomb at Agra beside the Yamuna, creating the monument the world would come to know as the Taj Mahal.
In context
Also in 1631 (3 other events on record)
- Battle of Breitenfeld · Europe · War
- Sack of Magdeburg · Europe · War
- First Newspaper in France · Europe · Culture
Before and after in South Asia
Before and after in Culture
- Before: 1625: Hals Paints the Laughing Cavalier
- After: 1632: Taj Mahal Begun
Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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