1506 In India
Events from the year 1506 in India. Events * March – Battle of Cannanore (1506) * Siege of Anjadiva (1506) * The new city of Agra was founded Births * 7 April, Francis Xavier, Roman Catholic missionary active in India is born (dies 1555) Deaths See also * Timeline of Indian history References India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Battle Of Cannanore (1506)
The Battle of Cannanore took place in 1506 off the harbour of Cannanore in India, between the Indian fleet of the Zamorin of Calicut and a Portuguese fleet under Lourenço de Almeida, son of the Viceroy Almeida. The Indian fleet, consisting of about 200 ships equipped with cannons manufactured with the help of two Milanese Italians, was manned by Hindu, Arab, and Turkish crews. This encounter ended in a Portuguese victory. It was followed by another Portuguese success at the siege of Cannanore in 1507, but then a Portuguese defeat at the Battle of Chaul in 1508.''Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415–1580'' Bailey Wallys Diffie p.232''ff'/ref> See also * Portuguese India References {{coord missing, Kerala 1506 in India Cannanore Cannanore (1506) Portuguese in Kerala 1506 in Portugal Cannanore Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and a municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of t ...
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Siege Of Anjadiva (1506)
The Siege of Angediva in 1506 took place when the sultan of Bijapur ordered the capture of the fortress that the Portuguese had built on the island of Angediva, his domain.''The New Cambridge Modern History: The Reformation, 1520-1559'' Geoffrey Rudolph Elton p.66/ref> The island was explored on September 24, 1498 by Nicolau Coelho, a member of Vasco da Gama's expedition when he was on his way to Portugal after having Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India, discovered the sea route to India. Gama sent Nicolau Coelho to investigate the island with a boat. After disembarking on the island and sailing around it, Coelho returned to the flagship to inform Gama that on the island there were only the ruins of what seemed to him to be a church, some residents, a py, an aslacetic who lived in a cave, good water springs and a water tank. Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (; ; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and the first Europe ...
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Agra
Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is the fourth-most populous city in Uttar Pradesh and List of cities in India by population, twenty-third most populous city in India. Agra's notable historical period began during Sikandar Lodi's reign, but the golden age of the city began with the Mughals. Agra was the foremost city of the Indian subcontinent and the capital of the Mughal Empire under Mughal emperors Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. Under Mughal rule, Agra became a centre for learning, arts, commerce, and religion, and saw the construction of the Agra Fort, Sikandra, Agra, Sikandra and Agra's most prized monument, the Taj Mahal, built by Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his favourite empress. With the decline of the Mughal empire in the late 18th century, the ci ...
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Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: ''Franciscus Xaverius''; Basque: ''Frantzisko Xabierkoa''; French: ''François Xavier''; Spanish: ''Francisco Javier''; Portuguese: ''Francisco Xavier''; 7 April 15063 December 1552), venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Spanish Catholic missionary and saint who was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus. Born in Javier (Xavier in Old Spanish and in Navarro-Aragonese, or Xabier, a Basque word meaning "new house"), in the Kingdom of Navarre (in present-day Spain), he was a companion of Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits who took vows of poverty and chastity at Montmartre, Paris in 1534. He led an extensive mission into Asia, mainly the Portuguese Empire in the East, and was influential in evangelisation work, most notably in early modern India. He was extensively involved in the missionary activity in Portuguese India. In 1546, Francis Xavier proposed the establishment of the Goan Inquisition ...
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1555 In India
Events from the year 1555 in India. Events * June Francisco Barreto takes up the position of viceroy in Goa, Portuguese India * Muhammad Adil Shah reign as fourth ruler of the Sur dynasty ends (since 1554) Births * Keshavdas, Sanskrit scholar and Hindi poet, author of Rasik Priya, is born in Orchha (dies 1617) Deaths * 16 June – Pedro Mascarenhas, viceroy of Portuguese India dies (born 1470) * 5 November – Hemu (Hemu Vikramaditya), Hindu emperor of north India. See also * Timeline of Indian history This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. See also the list of governor ... References {{India-year-stub ...
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Timeline Of Indian History
This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. See also the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and Years in India. __NOTOC__ Pre-90th century BCE 90th–50th century BCE 50th–40th century BCE 30th century BCE- 20th century BCE 19th century BCE 18th century BCE 17th century BCE 16th century BC 15th century BCE 14th century BCE 13th century BCE 12th century BCE 11th century BCE 10th century BCE 9th century BCE 8th century BCE 7th century BCE 6th century BCE 5th century BCE 4th century BCE 3rd century BCE 2nd century BCE 1st century BCE 1st century 2nd century 3rd century 4th century 5th century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century ...
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1506 In India
Events from the year 1506 in India. Events * March – Battle of Cannanore (1506) * Siege of Anjadiva (1506) * The new city of Agra was founded Births * 7 April, Francis Xavier, Roman Catholic missionary active in India is born (dies 1555) Deaths See also * Timeline of Indian history References India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...