(22 August) The 22nd Ottoman Sultan, Mustafa II, was deposed after a janissary revolt in…

(18 August) The Sack of Shamakhi occurred when around 15,000 rebellious Sunni Lezgin tribesmen attacked and…

(18 August) After Baghdad surrendered, Seljuk Sultan Mas’ud deposed the Abbasid caliph Al-Rashid Billah and replaced…

(16 August) The Treaty of Allahabad was signed between the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and…

(11 February) Jalal al-Din Muhammad Akbar ascended the Mughal throne after his father’s death.

(1 February) The leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after…

(6 December) The Hindutva Nationalist groups demolished Baburi Masjid of Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India.

(29 October) The Indian public and research university, Jamia Millia Islamia, was established at Aligarh…

(28 September) The last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar ascended the throne. He was a…