title: 1501 in India
text: # 1501 in India
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1501 in India.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Prabhat Ray, founder and ruler of the Jaintia Kingdom, 1500–1516
  * Miran Adil Khan II, Sultan of the Faruqi dynasty, 1457–1501
  * Rudra Pratap Singh, Raja of Orchha State, 1501-1531
  * Dhanya Manikya, Maharaja of Tripura, 1463-1515
  
  ## Events
  
  * The 2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500) left India in January
  * The 3rd Portuguese India Armada (Nova, 1501), funded by Bartolomeo Marchionni, landed in India in August
  * The Portuguese Armada fought the navy of the Zamorin of Calicut in the First Battle of Cannanore on 31 December
  * Pedro Álvares Cabral left India on 16 January and returned to Portugal with pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, mace, and cloves. The profits made from this trip were huge.
  * Guru Nanak made his first Udaasis, stopping in Gwarighat on the way back
  * Mallabairegowda built Devanahalli Fort
  * Rudra Pratap Singh founded Orchha State
  * Sikandar Lodi conquered Dholpur in Rajasthan
  * Portuguese tried to conquer Diu Island but failed
  * Dhanya Manikya constructed the Tripura Sundari Temple in Udaipur, Tripura
  * Nilakantha Somayaji wrote Tantrasamgraha, an important astronomical treatise
  * The Jain manuscript Devasanpada Kalpasutra was written
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Miran Adil Khan II, Sultan of the Faruqi dynasty
  * Ali-Shir Nava'i, who extensively influenced India, died on 9 February in Herat, Timurid Empire
  