Songhai Founder Sunni Ali Takes Throne
1460
The warrior king of Gao seized the crumbling Mali Empire's northern lands and began forging the Songhai state that would dominate West Africa for a century. He was a brutal ruler, a cavalry genius, and a man deeply suspicious of Muslim scholars, whom he periodically expelled and recalled according to mood.
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Also in 1460 (4 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.