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The following lists events that happened during 1903 in
Afghanistan.
The year passes quietly, without any internal disturbances, and nothing more is heard, or at least made public, about the attempt of Russia to establish direct intercourse between its own and the Afghan frontier officials for commercial purposes. The ''amir'' appoints his brother,
Sardar Nasrullah Khan, commander-in-chief, and he orders the construction of a line of fortified serais from
Dacca
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to
Kabul, from Kabul to
Kotal Manjan, in
Badakhshan, from Kabul to the Oxus, and from
Balkh
), named for its green-tiled ''Gonbad'' ( prs, گُنبَد, dome), in July 2001
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Bala Murghab
Bala Murghab (Persian/ ps, بالامرغاب) is a city in the Badghis Province of northwestern Afghanistan, located on the Murghab River. It is the district center for the Bala Murghab District. Bala Murghab is the largest city of Badghis Provin ...
, on the Russian frontier.
Incumbents
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Monarch –
Habibullah Khan
Events
Early 1903
The ''amir'' is compelled to abandon his project of forming a bodyguard of
Afridis owing to the jealousy which it excited, and those who were enlisted are disbanded and sent back to their homes, and their rifles are taken back from them.
* February 4 – Maj.
Henry McMahon, the British officer appointed to settle the boundary dispute between
Persia and Afghanistan, reaches the Helmand, and is joined by the Afghan commissioner on February 12. The work is said to proceed satisfactorily. A joint Afghan and British commission was appointed to demarcate the boundary between the two countries, from Nawa Kila, where
Richard Udny left off in 1895, to the Peiwar, where Mr. Donald began on the
Kurram side.
Late 1903
It is reported that the ''amir''s half-brother,
Mohammad Omar, is suspected of intriguing against him, and that there is a serious dispute between the ''amir'' and Mohammad Omar's mother about family jewels.
* late August – There is a severe outbreak of
cholera
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at Kabul, which proves fatal to more than one of the ''amir''s leading officials.
The ''amir'' himself remains in Kabul throughout the outbreak, doing his utmost to allay the alarm, and personally superintending sanitary reforms.
* October – Thirty-six sepoys are tried by court-martial at Kabul on charges of inciting to rebellion, and are put to death in the presence of all the troops.
* October 16 – The ''amir'' holds a great
durbar
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* Conference of Rulers, a council of Malay monarchs
* Durbar festival, a yearly festival in several towns of Nigeria
* Durbar floor plate, a hot-rolled structural steel that has been designed to give excellent slip resistance o ...
in honour of his accession, and speaks in praise of the mullahs, whom he is said to greatly favour generally.
Births
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Abdul Wahab Khan Tarzi Abdul Wahab Khan Tarzi (24 November 1903 – 20 January 1994) was an Afghan civil servant. He was born in Damascus in November 1903, and was educated at Oxford University. From 1925 to 1928, he served as director general of the Protocol Branch. ...
Deaths
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Sahibzada Abdul Latif
Sayyid Abdul Latif (1853 – July 14, 1903) or Sahibzada Abdul Latif among the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, was the Royal Advisor to Abdur Rahman Khan and Habibullah Khan, the father and son kings of Afghanistan between the late 19th century a ...
References
{{Year in Asia, 1903
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Years of the 20th century in Afghanistan
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1900s in Afghanistan