Ahmadnagar Sultanate
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Was a late medieval Indian Muslim kingdom located in the northwestern Deccan, between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur, ruled by the Nizam Shahi or Bahri dynasty.
Establishment
May 1490: The Ahmadnagar Sultanate was founded by Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I, who was the son of Nizam-ul-Mulk Malik Hasan Bahri. Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I was the governor of Junnar. After defeating the Bahmani army led by general Jahangir Khan on May 28, 1490, he declared independence and established dynastic rule over Ahmadnagar.
Chronology
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Expansion during the rule of Akbar the Great in the Mughal Empire.
August 1600: After the death of Chand Bibi in July 1600, Ahmadnagar was conquered by the Mughals, and Bahadur Shah was imprisoned.
January 1519: Borders of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate by 1518.
January 1522: The first Portuguese settlement at Chaul, a port town in India, took place in 1521.
January 1529: The Daulatabad fort is conquered by the Kandesh Sultanate.
December 1534: Growing apprehensive of the power of the Mughal emperor Humayun, Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat was obliged to sign the Treaty of Bassein with the Portuguese Empire. According to the treaty, the Seven Islands of Bombay, the nearby strategic town of Bassein and its dependencies were offered to the Portuguese. .
December 1534: The Treaty of Vasai (1534) was signed by Sultan Bahadur of Gujarat and the Kingdom of Portugal on 23 December 1534 while on board the galleon São Mateus. Based on the terms of the agreement, the Portuguese Empire gained control of the city of Vasai.
January 1535: In 1534, the Portuguese took the islands of Salsette from Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat.
January 1561: The Gujarat army defeated Miran Mubarak Khan II and took back Sultanpur and Nandurbar.
January 1567: Miran Muhammad Shah II was the ruler of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate, succeeding his father Miran Mubarak in 1566. Changiz Khan, a noble from Gujarat, took advantage of the transition of power and attacked Nandurbar, a territory under Ahmadnagar Sultanate's control, before advancing towards Thalner.
January 1575: In 1574 CE, Murtaza Nizam Shah of Ahmadnagar annexed Berar.
January 1575: Murtaza I, Sultan of Ahmadnagar, annexed Berar to his sultanate.
January 1601: Malik Ambar defied the Mughals and declared Murtaza Shah II as sultan at a new capital, Paranda.
Disestablishment
January 1637: In 1636, Aurangzeb, the Mughal viceroy of Deccan, finally annexed the Ahmadnagar Sultanate to the Mughal empire, after defeating Shahaji.
