Fall of Diriyah
Ibrahim Pasha's army destroys the first Saudi state
In 1818 the Egyptian army of Ibrahim Pasha, son of Muhammad Ali, took Diriyah, capital of the Wahhabi emirate, after a six-month siege. Emir Abdullah bin Saud was sent to Istanbul and executed and the town was razed — the end of the first Saudi state.
Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
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Europe
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- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — 14 years earlier
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 4 years earlier
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo — 3 years earlier
- 1816 Year Without a Summer — 2 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1807 Treaties of Tilsit — 11 years earlier
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 6 years earlier
- 1812 Battle of Borodino — 6 years earlier
Africa
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 20 years earlier
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 14 years earlier
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 13 years earlier
- 1830 France invades Algiers — 12 years later
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 17 years later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 3 years earlier
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 1 year earlier
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 1 year later
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 13 years later
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — 21 years later
Americas
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — 15 years earlier
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — 1 year earlier
- 1821 Mexican independence — 3 years later
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — 4 years later
- 1823 Monroe Doctrine — 5 years later
Alive at the time
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 69)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 49)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 48)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 35)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 19)
- Charles Darwin (aged 9)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 9)
- Karl Marx (aged 0)
- James Watt (aged 82)
- George III (aged 80)