* 1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.

The Sultan of Brunei visited Washington in December 2002.

In 1703 ( other sources say 1658 ), the Sultanate of Sulu received North Borneo from the Sultan of Brunei, after Sulu sent aid against a rebellion in Brunei.

Along with Sultan of Brunei Darussalam, Abdullah signed agreements devised to enhance cooperation in the economic, tourism and defense fields.

This issue was resolved along with several other disputes with the sealing and signing of letters of exchange by Abdullah and the Sultan Sultan Hasannal Bolkiah of Brunei at Istana Nurul Iman.

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

* 1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.

* 1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.

* October 4 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.

* September 7 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei ( b. 1914 )

* Sultan Muhammad Kanzul Alam ( Brunei )

* Sultan Muhammad Alam ( Brunei )

* Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II ( Brunei )

After Sultan Hassan, Brunei entered a period of decline, due to internal battles over royal succession as well as the rising influences of European colonial powers in the region, that, among other things, disrupted traditional trading patterns, destroying the economic base of Brunei and many other Southeast Asian sultanates.

In 1846, Brunei Town was attacked and captured by the British and Sultan Saifuddin II was forced to sign a treaty to end the British occupation of Brunei Town.

* The Brunei History Center-Located at Jalan Sultan next to the Royal Regalia building is the Brunei history center.

* Brunei Stamp Gallery-The recently opened Brunei Stamp Gallery is located inside the post office building in Jalan Sultan.

Higher educational institutes in Bandar Seri Begawan include Maktab Sains Paduka Seri Begawan Sultan ( Paduka Seri Begawan Sultan College of Science ), Institute Teknologi of Brunei ( Brunei Institute of Technology ), Maktab Jururawat Pengiran Anak Puteri Rashidah Sa ' adatul Bolkiah ( the only nursing college in Brunei ), Maktab Teknik Sultan Saiful Rijal ( Sultan Saiful Rijal Technical College ), Pusat Tingkatan Enam Katok and Pusat Tingkatan Enam Meragang ( Meragang Sixth Form Centre ).

In 1792, the first iron-cased rockets were successfully developed and used by Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, rulers of the Kingdom of Mysore in India against the larger British East India Company forces during the Anglo-Mysore Wars.

In alliance with the French in their struggle with the British, and in Mysore's struggles with other surrounding powers, both Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali used their French trained army against the Marathas, Sira, rulers of Malabar, Coorg, Bednur, Carnatic, and Travancore.

Tipu Sultan used many Western craftsmen, and this gun reflects the most up-to-date technologies of the time.

* Sultan in the original case of the Seljuk Turks who made the Caliphs of Baghdad their puppets ; later both styles were often used for absolute rulers in Nepal

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.

As Ternate did not have enough stock, the ship for which the men had stayed to prepare was used by the Sultan of Ternate to fill Ferdinand Magellan's last ship, which was the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

* 1803-The British Army develops the Congreve rocket based on weapons used against them by Tipu Sultan.

* Sultanic Highness-a rare, hybrid western-Islamic honorific style exclusively used by the son, daughter-in-law and daughters of Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt ( a British protectorate since 1914 ), who bore it with their primary titles of Prince (; ) or Princess, after 11 October 1917.

* in Nigeria most monarchies previously had native titles but when most in the north converted to Islam, Muslim titles were generally adopted such as Emir ; Sultan has also been used.

While the wall could hold against medieval attacks, Sultan Murad used bombards to supplement the usual siege engines and scaling ladders, leaving the Hexamilion in ruins by 10 December.

Additional actors included Seán G. Griffin as the Sultan ; Don Darryl Rivera as Iago ; and, playing Omar, Babkak, and Kassim – a trio of characters originally conceived by the film's creators but not used – Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Brian Gonzales, and Brandon O ' Neill.

* see Datu, one of the traditional Philippine noble titles used along with Datu, Lakan and Sultan, depending on the prestige and wealth of the nobleman.

He used a grand fleet with stately royal ships when meeting with other Scandinavian rulers, and actively sent letters and gifts to other European rulers ; his most far-reaching contact was achieved when he sent gyrfalcons with an embassy to the Sultan of Tunis.

The first car bomb may have been the one used for the assassination attempt on Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1905 in Istanbul by Armenian separatists, in the command of Belgian anarchist Edward Jorris.

Avedis was given the name of Zildjian ( Zilciyân ) by the Sultan Osman II ( from the Turkish word zil – cymbal, dji – maker-seller, ian – a common suffix used in Armenian last names which means ' son of ') and began an industry in 1623, the details of whose main product remained secret for generations.

Sultan Murad may have used futuwa groups as a model.

An emissary of Sultan Husayn ( r. 1722-32 ) to the court of Louis XV of France, on his way to the royal audience at Versailles, had in his retinue an officer holding his ḡalyān, which he used while his carriage was in motion ( Herbette, tr.

On a trip to Constantinople he gave a custom-engraved and gold inlaid revolver to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdülmecid I, informing him that the Russians were buying his pistols, thus securing a Turkish order for 5, 000 pistols ; he neglected to tell the Sultan he had used the same tactic with the Russians to elicit an order.

In Persian, the style Atabeg-e-Azam (' Great Atabeg ) was occasionally used as an alternative title for the Shah's Vazir-e-Azam ( Grand Vizier ), notably in 1834-35 for Mirza Abolghasem Farahani, Gha ' em Magham, in 1848-51 for Mirza Mohammed Taghi Khan, Amir-e Kabir, in 1906-07 for Mirza Ali Asghar Khan, Amin-ol Soltan, and finally in 1916 for a Qajar prince, Major-General Shahzadeh Sultan ' Abdu ' l Majid Mirza, Eyn-ol Douleh.

Tipu Sultan used carrier pigeons.

The holder of the title Sultan ( سلطان in Arabic ), was in later Arabic-Islamic dynasties originally the power behind the throne of the Caliph in Bagdad and it was later used for various independent Muslim Monarchs.

* Just Bey itself was part of the territorial title of the ruler, and also as a title used by all male members of the family ( rather like Sultan in the Ottoman dynasty ).

It featured the classic blue cross on a white field with the picture of St. George slaying the dragon, and was used from 1431 until 1639, when this privilege was greatly limited by the Sultan.