Akbar transfers his capital from Agra to…

Akbar transfers his capital from Agra to his new city of Fatehpur Sikri in 1570.

A remarkable achievement in both planning and execution, the design for the new city includes magnificent palace buildings and halls of state together with several architectural conceits, such as a courtyard transformed by its paving into a gigantic functional chessboard, and the Diwan-i-Am, a five-storied pavilion the stepped tiers of which diminish in scale as they rise toward a kiosk on top.

He personally directs the building of the Jami Masjid (Great Mosque) in 1571, which stretches some five hundred and forty feet (one hundred and sixty-five meters) in length and contains an ornate tomb for Chishti.

The Great Mosque complex contains the elaborate marble tomb of Salim and a triumphal gateway memorializing Akbar's military triumphs.