Today Importance - 17th May
17-May-1498
Chief of naval operations Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)- I, Portuguese guide, showed up in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in Calicut, Kerala with three ships and was the first Westerner to sail from Europe to India.
17-May-1540
Sher Shah defeated Humayun a second time at Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh. Battle of Kanauj
17-May-1775
The Marathas were defeated at the Battle of Aras by Colonel Keating in the First Anglo-Maratha War.
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