Enlightenment · South Asia · Politics
1719
Accession of Muhammad Shah
November 15, 1719
Four Mughal emperors had died in twelve years; another, Muhammad Shah, Rangila, pleasure-loving and poetic, took the throne in Delhi. Under him the empire would suffer invasion, provincial breakaway, and the loss of the Peacock Throne. Yet Delhi's poets, Mir and Sauda, produced Urdu's golden age amid the collapse, as if compensating.
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Also in 1719 (3 other events on record)
- Robinson Crusoe Published · Europe · Culture
- Dzungar-Qing War Intensifies · Central Asia · War
- Battle of Glenshiel · Europe · War
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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