Timeline October 1092

Events in October 1092 3

• 1018 – 1092 Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092) Died 14 October 1092, aged 74 Nizam al-Mulk was the powerful Persian vizier who administered the Seljuk Empire for three decades under Alp Arslan and Malik-Shah I, founding the network of Nizamiyyah madrasas. He was stabbed to death near Nahavand while travelling in the sultan's retinue, in what is widely regarded as the first assassination carried out by the Nizari Ismaili order later known as the Hashashin. His death removed the chief stabilizing force in Seljuk government weeks before the sultan himself died.
• 1092 Omar Khayyam's patron Nizam al-Mulk is assassinated The Seljuk grand vizier is murdered Nizam al-Mulk, the grand vizier who had brought Khayyam to court, was assassinated in October 1092. His death was the first in a series of events that ended Khayyam's peaceful years.
• 1092 Coup in Valencia triggers El Cid's siege Al-Qadir assassinated, Ibn Jahhaf seizes the city The qadi Ibn Jahhaf led an uprising in Valencia that killed its ruler al-Qadir, a client of the Castilian warlord Rodrigo Diaz, known as El Cid, and installed a government allied with the Almoravids. El Cid responded by laying siege to the city to restore his influence over it. The siege would continue for roughly two years before Valencia fell to him in 1094.