Emirate of Kano

This article is about the specific polity Emirate of Kano and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Kano was a precolonial polity located in northern Nigeria. The Sultanate of Kano replaced by the Kano Emirate, subject to the Sokoto Caliphate.

Establishment

January 1808: The Sultanate lasted until the Fulani jihad in 1805 and the assassination of the Last Sultan of Kano in 1807. The Sultanate was then replaced by the Kano Emirate, subject to the Sokoto Caliphate.

Chronology

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1. Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate

Was a British military expedition that led to the fall of the Sokoto Caliphate and its partition between Great Britain and Germany.

1.1.British conquest of the Kano Emirate

The Kano Emirate, in northern Nigeria, was conquered by the British after a military expedition.

March 1903: Kano Vizier Ahmadu Mai Shahada and much of the Kano Cavalry was ambushed and defeated by British forces at Katarkwashi (Battle of Kano, 1903). The Vizier died, and the 7th emir of Kano was exiled. The British made Kano an important administrative centre and kept most of the Emirates institutions in the form of the Kano Emirate Council subject to the British Colony of Northern Nigeria.