Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Afghan state
1747 · Event
After Nadir Shah's assassination, the Pashtun commander Ahmad Shah is chosen king at Kandahar and builds the Durrani Empire, the origin of modern Afghanistan.
On these timelines: Master, India, Persia and Iran
Around 1747
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)