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Polity South Asia

Bengal

Attested 1492 CE – 1783 CE

Region in the eastern Indian subcontinent

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How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 5 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Bengal appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1492 CE 5 snapshots · 183 years unattested at the widest 1783 CE
1492 CE1500 CE1530 CE1600 CE1783 CE

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · South Asia

Taj Mahal

1632 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Mughal Conquests of India

1526 CE – 1707 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Hampi

1336 CE – 1565 CE

Polity · South Asia

India

Attested 1783 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Anglo-Maratha Wars

1775 CE – 1818 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Goa

1510 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Mughal Empire

1526 CE – 1857 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1492 CE and 1783 CE.

1500 CE Surat 1510 CE Goa 1526 CE Mughal Conquests of India 1526 CE First Battle of Panipat 1557 CE Mughal-Rajput Wars 1571 CE Fatehpur Sikri

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Royal Hill of Ambohimanga Landmark · Africa 1500 CE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Christopher Columbus Figure · Spain / Atlantic / Caribbean 1451 CE – 1506 CE Robben Island Landmark · Africa 1658 CE – still standing
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • BengalFile:Asia_terrain.jpg · Public domain
  • Taj MahalYann; edited by Jim Carter · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • HampiiMahesh · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of IndiaGovernment of India · Public domain
  • GoaSam 8393 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mughal EmpireJustus Perthes, Gotha./Charles Joppen · GFDL