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1865–70
 
Abdallah ibn Faysal ruled as Saudi emir (first reign).  1
 
1868–71
 
Azzan ibn Qays ruled Oman and Muscat.  2
 
1870–75
 
Sa’ud ibn Faysal ruled as Saudi emir, after deposing his brother Abdallah.  3
 
1871
 
Ottoman forces occupied Hasa from the Saudis, as part of a new policy of Ottoman expansion in Arabia.  4
Sheik Abdallah al-Sabah of Kuwait accepted Ottoman authority over his country.  5
 
1871–83
 
Turki ibn Sa’id ruled Oman and Muscat.  6
 
1872
 
Ottoman forces occupied Asir and most of Yemen, and set up an Ottoman administration for the area, backed by a large military presence.  7
 
1875–89
 
Abdallah ibn Faysal ruled as Saudi emir (second reign).  8
 
1877
 
Treaty of commerce between Muscat and the Netherlands, granting Dutch nationals extraterritorial rights.  9
 
1880, Dec. 22
 
An agreement between the sheik of Bahrain and Britain, in which the sheik surrendered his external sovereignty to Britain. This was the first in a series of such agreements that over the next 26 years brought the sheikdoms along the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf into a British quasi-protectorate system.  10
 
1882, May
 
The ruler of Hadramawt signed a treaty surrendering his external sovereignty to Britain.  11
 
1883–1913
 
Faysal ibn Turki ruled Oman and Muscat.  12
 
1888
 
A British protectorate established in Hadramawt.  13
 
 
 
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