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Events on Monday 22 June 1885 1
1844 – 1885Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi (1844-1885)Died 22 June 1885, aged 40Sudanese religious leader who declared himself the Mahdi and led a successful revolt against Egyptian and British rule, capturing Khartoum in January 1885. He died of typhus just months after his victory, and the Mahdist state he founded survived under his successor until its defeat by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1898.