Enlightenment · Middle East · Politics

1747

Ahmad Shah Durrani Founds Afghanistan

January 1, 1747

After Nader Shah's murder, his twenty-five-year-old Pashtun cavalry commander, Ahmad Shah Abdali, took the Koh-i-Noor and a tribal assembly at Kandahar took him as their shah. He renamed himself Durrani, the pearl of pearls, and built an empire stretching from the Amu Darya to Delhi. Modern Afghanistan dates its birth to that gathering.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: January 1, 1744: First Saudi State
After: 1751: Nader Shah's Empire Dissolves

Before and after in Politics

Before: July 9, 1746: Ferdinand VI of Spain Ascends
After: October 18, 1748: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

Era

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

Sources

Wikipedia: Ahmad Shah Durrani