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This happening is known as The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre. It took place in 1902 in Hanoi, which was a French colony at that time. At the beginning action was a success, but as the bounty was granted for every rat's tail, soon the town was occupied by rats with cut out tails, that were left alive for breeding, and there were more and more rat farms in the ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delhi#Early_history shows that the city was called Delhi (or Dilli) at least since the 12/13th century. Therefore, when Akbar assumed throne in 1556, the city would have been called Delhi. There are however more concrete sources than this simple extrapolation. Humayun Nama refers to the city as Delhi. You can read it ...