ON THIS DAY
- Battles & Sieges
- 1526 (500 years ago) (21 April) The Timurid forces under Babur defeated the armies of Ibrahim Lodi of the Lodi dynasty in the Battle of Panipat. This victory of Babur marked the fall of the Delhi Sultanate and the beginning of the Mughal Empire in India.
- Deaths
- 1938 (88 years ago) (21 April) Noted Muslim thinker, philosopher, and celebrated Urdu and Farsi poet, Allama Muhammad Iqbal died in Lahore, British India.
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