By 1722, his son Mahmud captured what is now Iran and declared himself as Shah of Persia.

Painda Khan's son fled to Iran and pledged the substantial support of his Barakzai followers to a rival claimant to the throne, Zaman's older brother, Mahmud Shah.

Mahmud Shah's first reign lasted for only two years before he was replaced by Shuja Shah.

The Afghans captured Isfahan ( Safavid capital ) and Mahmud became the new Persian Shah, known after that as Shah Mahmud.

In 1946, another of Zahir Shah's uncles, Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan, became Prime Minister and began an experiment allowing greater political freedom, but reversed the policy when it went further than he expected.

For the first thirty years he did not effectively rule, ceding power to his paternal uncles, Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan and Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan.

Only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah.

* Shah Mahmud overthrows his brother, Shah Shuja, as leader of the Muzaffarid tribe in Persia.

* Shah Mahmud Hotaki of Afghanistan goes insane.

* Shah Shuja regains rule of the Muzaffarid tribe in Persia after the death of his brother, Shah Mahmud.

Sikander Shah I is succeeded two months later by Mahmud II.

However the Ilyas Shahi dynasty was restored by Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah.

The territory Mir Muhammad Shah divided as follows Iskashim was given to Mir Khan ; Rushan to Shah Wali and Warduj to Mahmud Khan brother of Mir Ahmad Beg Kataghan.

In fact Badakhshan was now contested by again by Mir Yar Beg, Sikandar Shah, Shahzada Mahmud, Abdul Ghazi Khan and Shah Suliman Beg who were in exile at Tashkurghan under protection of Mir Wali.

Jirm to Sikandar Shah and Zardeo Sarghalan was given to Shahzada Mahmud.

His rival Mahmud Shah leaves without a struggle in October 1868.

Shah Alam was granted city status on 10 October 2000 with Dato ' Haji Abu Sujak Haji Mahmud as the first mayor.

Nadir Shah's devastating campaign against the Mughal Empire, created a void in the western frontiers of Persia, which was effectively exploited by the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I, who initiated the Otttoman-Persian War ( 1743 – 1746 ), in which the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah closely cooperated with the Ottomans and their ambassador Haji Yusuf Agha, these relations between the two great empires continued until Muhammad Shah's death in 1748.

His elder brother, the chief of the Barakzai, Fatteh Khan, took an important part in raising Mahmud Shah Durrani to the sovereignty of Afghanistan in 1800 and in restoring him to the throne in 1809.

– Mahmud Shah Durrani

A meeting of the group was held in August 2009 in Peshawar by members including Salim Saifullah Khan, Hamid Nasir Chattha, Humayun Akhtar Khan, Gohar Ayub Khan, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Muhammad Ali Durrani, Sumera Malik, Lala Nisar, Kashmala Tariq, Iqbal Dar and Omar Ayub Khan.

* Mahmud Shah Durrani, ruler of Afghanistan between 1801-1803 and 1809-1818

Mahmud Shah Durrani was the half-brother of his predecessor, Zaman Shah. On July 25, 1801, Zaman Shah was deposed, and Mahmud Shah ascended to ruler-ship.

King Mahmud Shah Durrani died in 1829.

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* Mahmud Shah Durrani

* Shahzada Kamran Durrani – was born into the Sadozai dynasty and was the son of Mahmud Shah Durrani

On 23 March 2006, Pakistani media reported that Ambassador Karamat was to be replaced by retired Major General Mahmud Ali Durrani.

Under Ahmad Shah Durrani the Kalhoras, now in a state of decadence, contended for possession of Dera Ghazi Khan, but Mahmud Khan Gujar appears to have been its real governor.

* Mahmud Shah Durrani, ruler of Afghanistan 1801-1803 & 1809-1818

* 1696 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1754 )

Ahmed voluntarily led his nephew Mahmud I ( 1730 – 54 ) to the seat of sovereignty and paid allegiance to him as Sultan of the Empire.

His sons were: Mustafa IV ( 1807 – 08 ) ( his son by Ayşe Seniyeperver ), Mahmud II ( 1808 – 39 ) ( his son by Naksh-i-Dil Haseki ), Murad, Nusret, Mehmed, Ahmed, and Süleyman.

A census was taken in the Ottoman Empire 1831-38 by Sultan Mahmud II ( 1808 – 1839 ) as a part of the reform movement Tanzimat.

* 1754 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1696 )

It was written in the Tarikh-i Firishta ( 1606 – 1607 ) that Nasir ud din Mahmud the ruler of the Delhi Sultanate presented the envoy of the Mongol ruler Hulegu Khan with a dazzling pyrotechnics display upon his arrival in Delhi in 1258 AD.

* 2012 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer ( b. 1957 )

* 1822 – First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.

* 1971 – Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer

* 1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.

Zheng He ( 1371 – 1433 ), formerly romanized as Cheng Ho and also known as Ma Sanbao and Hajji Mahmud Shamsuddin, was a Muslim Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Somalia and the Swahili coast, collectively referred to as the " Voyages of Zheng He " from 1405 to 1433.

* June 14 – June 15 – The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny of janissaries in Istanbul.

* December 28 – A Muslim Brotherhood member assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi

*** Mahmud II ( 1808 – 1839 )

* July 26 – Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer

* June 14 – June 15, 1826 – The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny of janissaries in Istanbul.

* September 17 – Mahmud I ( 1730 – 1754 ) succeeds Ahmed III ( 1703 – 1730 ) as Ottoman Emperor.

* December 13 – Osman III ( 1754 – 1757 ) succeeds Mahmud I as Ottoman Emperor.

* December 13 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1696 )