Akbar began reign in 1556 after Humayuns death, Bairam Khan

Akbar (Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar, 15 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), also known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal ...

At the time of Humayun's death on 27 January 1556, Bairam Khan was leading a campaign against Sikandar Shah Suri in Punjab (in present-day India) as the then Prince Akbar's ataliq (guardian) and sipahsalaar (commander-in-chief) of the Mughal army.

He was the son of 2nd Mughal Emperor Humayun. Akbar is considered one of the greatest emperors in Indian history. Akbar grew up in a Hindu household and was born in a fortress of local Hindu ruler of Amarkot (modern-day Umerkot, Sindh, Pakistan). Akbar became the de jure (by Law) king in 1556 at ...

His father, Humayun (ruled 1530–1540 and 1555–1556), was driven from the throne of India in a series of decisive battles by the Afghan, Sher Shah Suri. After more than 12 years of exile, Humayun regained his sovereignty, though he held it for only a few months before his death in 1556.

The transition of 1560 was a transfer from regency to personal monarchy. After Bairam’s dismissal, power did not instantly pass to a fully independent emperor. Maham Anga, her son Adham Khan, Shams al-Din Atga Khan and competing nobles struggled ...

Akbar's guardian, Bairam Khan, concealed his death to prepare for Akbar's succession. Akbar succeeded Humayun on 14 February 1556,[28] while in the midst of a war against Sikandar Shah to reclaim ...

Bairam Khan’s attempt to centralize authority, though ultimately resisted by the nobility, established an important precedent for Akbar’s later efforts to assert imperial control over the aristocracy. The tensions that emerged during the regency between central power and noble autonomy would define much of Akbar’s early reign.

When Akbar was officially proclaimed emperor on 3 Rabīʿ II 963/14 February 1556, the prospects were not promising for a long or successful reign. Sekandar Sūr was still a threat in the Panjab; other Afghan chiefs held most of the Gangetic plains; and the Hindu minister-general Hēmū made his own bid for power by taking Delhi from the Mughals in October, 1556. But under the exceptionally able and loyal regent Bayrām Khan, the Mughals rallied to defeat Hēmū decisively at the second battle of Panipat on 2 Moḥarram 964/5 November 1556; with the constant threat of an Afghan revival hanging over them, the older Mughal nobles accepted the irksome burden of central administration and control as the price for their share in continued Mughal rule over the Asian subcontinent.

During the first few years of Akbar’s reign (c. 1556 – 1560 CE), Bairam Khan acted as his regent.