* The Indian Ocean in World History: Educational Website Interactive resource from the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center

* 1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms ; modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.

* 1940 – Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman

In an effort to curb the Dhofar insurgency, Sultan Qaboos expanded and re-equipped the armed forces and granted amnesty to all surrendering rebels while vigorously prosecuting the war in Dhofar.

Since his accession in 1970, Sultan Qaboos has balanced tribal, regional, and ethnic interests in composing the national administration.

In November 1996, Sultan Qaboos presented his people with the " Basic Statutes of the State ", Oman's first written " constitution ".

Perhaps most importantly, the Basic Statutes provide rules for setting Sultan Qaboos ' succession.

In December 2000, Sultan Qaboos appointed the 48-member Majlis Al Dowla, or State Council, including five women, which acts as the upper chamber in Oman's bicameral representative body.

In 1986, Oman's first university, Sultan Qaboos University, opened.

Current Sultan of Oman, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Sa ’ id Al ‘ Bu Sa ’ id holds an extraordinary amount of power.

In November 1991, Sultan Qaboos replaced the 10-year-old State Consultative Council with the Consultative Assembly ( Majlis al-Shura ) to systematize and broaden public participation in government.

Sultan Qaboos Street

In the Muscat area, this highway is known as Sultan Qaboos Street, and it is the trunk road running through the city.

* Port Sultan Qaboos, Muttrah

When Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said assumed power in 1970, Oman had limited contacts with the outside world, including neighbouring Arab states.

Ties with the United Kingdom have remained very close under Sultan Qaboos.

In 1974 and April 1983, Sultan Qaboos of Oman made state visits to the United States.

** Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a palace coup by his son, Qaboos.

The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said al Said, criticized Gamal Abdel Nasser and his pan-Arab ideology in private discussions with American officials, which were released by Wikileaks, claiming Nasser deliberately used inflammatory speeches and rhetoric to make his people stupid, and accused Nasser of having " set the region back " and holding a position of " anti-everything.

H. M. Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said, the current Sultan of Oman from the Al Said dynasty.

Category: Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation laureates

*: Member First Class of the Order of Sultan Qaboos ( 10 January 2012 )

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.

Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah also introduced organizational forms that gave Ismāʿīlī communities the means to structure and regulate their own affairs.

In 1886 Said Ali bin Said Omar, Sultan of Bambao, signed an agreement with the French government that allowed France to establish a protectorate over the entire island of Ngazidja ( Grande Comore ; protectorates were also established over Ndzwani ( Anjouan ), and Mwali ( Mohéli island in French ) the same year.

Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan were the first to introduce modern Cannons and Muskets, their army was also the first in India to have official uniforms.

For the numerous styles in past and present monarchies, in most cases commonly-though often not quite accurately-rendered as King or Emperor, but also many other ( e. g. Grand duke, Sultan ), see Prince, princely state and monarchy.

The Sultan also had a retinue of wazirs ( ministers ), legal experts, commanders, royal eunuchs, and assorted hangers-on at his beck and call.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (), and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi ( 30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273 ), was a 13th-century after whose death in 1284 Rumi's younger and only surviving son, Sultan Walad ( died 1312 ), favorably known as author of the mystical Maṭnawī Rabābnāma, or the Book of the Rabab was installed as grand master of the order.

The Ming Court was also influenced by reports of misbehaviour of Portuguese elsewhere in China, and by the deposed Sultan of Malacca seeking Chinese assistance to drive the Portuguese out of Malacca.

He was the son of Orhan I and the Valide Sultan Nilüfer Hatun ,( whose name means Water lily in Persian ) daughter of the Prince of Yarhisar or Byzantine princess Theodora Kantakouzene ( also named Nilüfer ), who was of ethnic Greek descent

Murad IV was born in Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ahmed I ( 1603 – 17 ) and the ethnic Greek Valide Sultan Kösem Sultan ( also known as Mahpeyker ), originally named Anastasia.

He also became a financial adviser to the then Sultan of Brunei Omar Ali Saifuddien III, in 1966.

Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates has also expressed interest in sponsoring an inter-oceanic canal project.

Politics of Oman takes place in a framework of an absolute monarchy whereby the Sultan of Oman is not only head of state, but also the head of government.

In the early nineteenth centuries, continuing bloody conflict involved not only the Al Khalifa, the Al Jalahima, and the Iranians but also the Omanis under Sayyid Said ibn Sultan Al Said, the nascent Wahhabis of Arabia, and the Ottomans.

The Sultan also played a role in protecting the Jewish subjects of his empire for centuries to come.

He also allowed Hürrem Sultan to remain with him at court for the rest of her life, breaking another tradition — that when imperial heirs came of age, they would be sent along with the imperial concubine who bore them to govern remote provinces of the Empire, never to return unless their progeny succeeded to the throne.

There were also divisions within the family over who should succeed Crown Prince Sultan.

Selim II ( Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى Selīm-i < u > s </ u > ānī, Turkish: II. Selim ; 28 May 1524 – 12 December / 15 December 1574 ), also known as " Selim the Sot ( Mest )" or " Selim the Drunkard "; and as " Sarı Selim " or " Selim the Blond ", was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574.

Tipu Sultan ( November 1750, Devanahalli – 4 May 1799, Seringapatam ), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore.

* April 8 – Sultan Iskandar of Johor, also the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ( d. 2010 )

* Constantinople's Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ) is completed during the rule of Ahmed I.

Minute descriptions of Hebron were recorded in Stephen von Gumpenberg ’ s Journal ( 1449 ), by Felix Fabri ( 1483 ) and by Mejr ed-Din It was in this period, also, that the Mamluk Sultan Qa ' it Bay revived the old custom of the Hebron " table of Abraham ," and exported it as a model for his own madrasa in Medina.