Enlightenment · Africa · Politics

1681

Moulay Ismail Consolidates Morocco

1681

Sultan Moulay Ismail, ruling from his new capital at Meknes, deployed his fearsome Black Guard - an army of enslaved soldiers numbering over fifty thousand - to crush tribal rebellions and unify Morocco under Alaouite rule. He built palaces of staggering opulence, kept a harem of legendary proportions, and corresponded as an equal with Louis XIV.

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Before and after in Africa

Before: 1680: Dodo Confirmed Extinct on Mauritius
After: 1698: Oman Expels the Portuguese from East Africa

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1680: Asante Union Begins to Form
After: April 27, 1682: Peter the Great Becomes Tsar

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.