Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat
A 13-year-old ruler wins back northern India for the Mughals
The army of the 13-year-old Akbar defeated the general Hemu and restored Mughal rule in northern India. Akbar reigned for nearly half a century, united most of the subcontinent and pursued religious tolerance.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — 22 years earlier
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — 13 years earlier
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — 15 years later
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — 16 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — 9 years earlier
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — 1 year earlier
- 1569 Union of Lublin — 13 years later
Americas
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 24 years earlier
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 14 years earlier
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 11 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Michelangelo (aged 81)
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 26)
- Elizabeth I (aged 23)
- Akbar the Great (aged 14)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 13)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 9)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 72)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (aged 62)
- Charles V (aged 56)
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) (aged 51)