Subcontinent · 1526
First Battle of Panipat
Babur's guns and cavalry beat a much larger army. Ibrahim Lodi was killed and the Mughal Empire began.
Key facts
- When
- 1526
- Where
- Panipat, Haryana, India
- Sides
- Babur vs Delhi Sultanate
- Commanders
- Babur vs Ibrahim Lodi
- Result
- Mughal victory
- Type
- Subcontinent
- Chapter
- 4. Al-Andalus and the Subcontinent
Who led it
- Babur1483 to 1530
A Timurid prince from Fergana who lost his homeland, took Kabul and then won north India at Panipat in 1526.
The wider picture: Three gunpowder empires
Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453. Selim I conquered Egypt in 1517 and the caliphate passed to the Ottomans. Suleiman won at Mohacs in 1526, and a second siege of Vienna failed in 1683. Further east, Safavid Iran and the Mughals of India ruled at the same time.
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