Muhammad of Ghor assassinated on the Indus

1206

The Afghan sultan who had conquered northern India was murdered by Ismaili assassins while encamped on the banks of the Jhelum. His death shattered the Ghurid empire into fragments and left his Turkish slave-generals to fight over the Indian spoils, birthing the Delhi Sultanate from the wreckage. Without an heir, the empire he had built from Ghazni to Bengal dissolved overnight.