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Shah Jahan

1592 CE – 1666 CE

Retrace Shah Jahan's life across the map — 7 events in chronological order, from a cinematic flythrough to a full timeline.

Life journey

1. Battle of Lahira1634 CE
   The Battle of Lahira, also known as the Battle of Gurusar or the Battle of Mehraj, was fought between the Mughal Empire and Sikhs assisted by the Kangra State in 1631 or 1634.
2. Battle of Kartarpur1635 CE
   The Battle of Kartarpur occurred on 25 April 1635. It was the final major military engagement of Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh Guru, against the imperial forces of the Mughal Empire. Following previous Sikh victories in the Battle of Amritsar (1634) and Battle of Lahira, tensions between the Guru and Shah Jahan had reached a peak.
3. Mughal–Safavid War1637 CE
   The Mughal–Persian war (1637–1638) is a conflict which took place in 1638, between Safavid Empire of Persia and Mughal Empire of Hindustan. The main events were the Mughal victories of the Fall of Kandahar (1638) and the Siege of Bost (1638), which the additional capture of several smaller Afghanistan fortresses previously under the control of the Safavids. The war resulted in a decisive victory for the Mughals, especially marked by the surrender of Kandahar by Ali Mardan Khan.
4. Fall of Kandahar1638 CE
   The Fall of Kandahar (1638) refers to the recovery of the Kandahar fortress by the Mughal Empire from the Safavids, following the betrayal of Alimardan Khan, Safavid Governor of the region. After the formal remittance of the fortress to the Mughals on March 11 without a fight, a battle ensued in the region of Kandahar on open ground between Mughal forces and Safavid forces about a month later on April 11, resulting in a Safavid defeat. The fall of Kandahar was part of the Mughal–Safavid War (1637–1638), giving control of Kandahar to the Mughals for a period of about 10 years, until the Safavids recaptured it in the Siege of Kandahar (1648–1649), never to return again in the possession of the Mughals. The Siege of Bost (1638) followed in the summer of the same year 1638, ending in an important Mughal victory.
5. Siege of Bost1638 CE
   The Siege of Bost, from July 28 to September 3, 1638, was a siege of the fortress of Bost led by the Mughal Empire general Qulij Khan Turani sent by Shah Jahan, against the Safavids under Mihrab Khan, an Armenian ghulam of the ruler of Iran Safi of Persia. The siege was part of the Mughal–Safavid War (1637–1638), and followed the Fall of Kandahar in March 1638.
6. Capture of the ship The Bengali Prize1642 CE
   The Capture of The Bengali Prize, or the Seizure of The Bengali Prize, was a Danish capture and seizure of a larger Bengali vessel in late 1642 in the Bay of Bengal. The capture is known to be the first confrontation of the Dano-Mughal War, after the formal declaration of war.
7. Dano-Mughal War1642 CE
   The Dano-Mughal War, formally the Danish East India Company's War against the Mughal Empire, was a colonial and maritime conflict between the Mughal Empire and the Danish East India Company over trade commerce in the Bay of Bengal. Lasting from 1642 to 1698, the conflict has also been referred to by historians as the Dano-Bengali Thirty Years' War.

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