Ottoman & Khedivial · event 4 of 11

1811

The massacre of the Mamluks. Around 500 Mamluk leaders are invited to the Citadel and shot in a narrow passage as they leave, ending their power after five and a half centuries.

The Ottoman & Khedivial era

  1. 1517
  2. 1798
  3. 1805
  4. 1811
  5. 1830–1848
  6. 1869
  7. 1860s–1870s
  8. 1882
  9. 1902
  10. 1919
  11. 1922

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