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| 1809 |
| | Ranjit Singh, maharaja of the Punjab, agrees an eastern boundary between himself and the British in the Treaty of Amritsar | |
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| 1817 |
| | British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta | |
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| 1818 |
| | A leader of the Ismaili sect is granted, by the shah of Persia, the hereditary title of Aga Khan | |
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| 1819 |
| | The Sikh maharajah of the Punjab, Ranjit Singh, conquers Kashmir, beginning a century and a half of Sikh dominance in the region | |
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| 1820 |
| | The Eastern Question, concerning Turkey's ability to control its vast empire, becomes a persistent nineteenth-century theme | |
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| 1820 |
| | The first of the truces is made which will lead to the Trucial States, now known as the United Arab Emirates | |
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| 1830 |
| | Hokusai begins to publish his famous colour-printed views of Mount Fuji | |
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| 1831 |
| | Mameluke power ends with their suppression in Baghdad, following a massacre in Cairo twenty years earlier | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East | |
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| 1837 |
| | Zanzibar becomes the main place of residence of the sultan of Oman | |
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