Mahdist War / Fall of Khartoum
1881–1899 · Event
Sudanese Islamist revolt led by Muhammad Ahmad, the self-declared Mahdi; defeated General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 and was finally crushed at Omdurman.
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Around 1881
- German unification (1871)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Pablo Picasso (1881)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)