The political history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760) is the political
history of the contiguous historical regions of Mysore state and Coorg
province in west-central peninsular India, beginning with the fall of
the Vijayanagara Empire in 1565 and ending just before the rise of
Sultan Haidar Ali in 1761. After the Vijayanagara Empire's fall, the
Sultanate of Bijapur, the Sultanate of Golconda, the fledgling Maratha
empire, and the Mughal empire, invaded the region intermittently. By
the turn of the eighteenth century, the northwestern hills were being
ruled by the Nayaka rulers of Ikkeri, the southwestern, in the Western
Ghats, by the Rajas of Coorg, the southern plains by the Wodeyar rulers
of Mysore, Hindu dynasties all; whereas the eastern and northeastern
regions had fallen to the Muslim Nawabs of Arcot and Sira. Mysore's
expansions had been based on unstable alliances. When the alliances
began to unravel, political decay set in. The declining Mughal empire
raided the Mysore capital, Seringapatam, to collect unpaid taxes; the
neighbouring Raja of Coorg began a war of attrition with Mysore over
western territory; and soon, the Maratha empire invaded again and
exacted more concessions of territory. In the chaotic last decade of
this period, a little-known Muslim cavalryman, Haidar Ali, seized power
in Mysore.
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1306:
Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone near Perth.
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1409:
The Council of Pisa, an unrecognized ecumenical conference of the Roman
Catholic Church held in Pisa that attempted to end the Western Schism,
opened.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Pisa>
1634:
Lord Baltimore, his younger brother Leonard Calvert, and a group of
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1655:
Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan , the largest
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1802:
France and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Amiens, temporarily
ending the hostilities between the two during the French Revolutionary
Wars.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Amiens>
1807:
The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the
British Empire.
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A comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship
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and profession, but often with drastically different personalities or
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