Vasco da Gama sails from Europe to India via the route that goes south of the African continent. 16th century AD Islam is the leading religion in the Taklamakan region. Babur (Zahir ud-Din Muhammad) founds the Mughal dynasty on the Indian subcontinent and becomes its first emperor. He is ...
of complete years elapsed since the king’s consecration. But the earlier existence of a reckoning of duration of reigns anddynastiesis evidenced by the testimony of the Greek historianMegasthenes, who in 302bcwas the ambassador ofSeleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Empire, to the court...