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Events from the year 1526 in India.

Incumbents

21 April – The First Battle of Panipat is fought. Babur becomes Mughal emperor, invades northern India and captures Delhi, beginning the Mughal Empire, which lasts until 1757.^[1]
Date unknown – The Siege of Sambhal occurs.
Date unclear – The Siege of Calicut.^[2]
Henrique de Meneses ends his governance of Portuguese India
Lopo Vaz de Sampaio begins his governance of Portuguese India (which ends in 1529)
Bahadur Shah of Gujarat first reign as sultan of Gujarat Sultanate begins (ends 1535)^[3]

^ "First Battle of Panipat (1526) | Panipat, Haryana | India". Retrieved 29 January 2023.
^ Mathew, K. M. (1988). History of the Portuguese Navigation in India, 1497-1600. Mittal Publications. ISBN 978-81-7099-046-8.
^ Farhat Hasan (11 November 2004), State and locality in Mughal India: power relations in western India, c. 1572-1730Volume 61 of University of Cambridge oriental publications, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-84119-1, ... Bahadur Shah was the son of Muzaffar Shah (1511-26), an important ruler of the Gujarat Sultanate ... In 1526, when Bahadur Shah formally ascended the throne of Gujarat ...

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