Ruler · 1857 – 1881

Zainal Rashid Mu'adzam Shah II of Kedah

Lived 1857 – 1881. Sultan of Kedah of Kedah Sultanate, 1879 – 1881.

Wikidata's English label: Sultan Zainal Rashid Mu'adzam Shah II.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1857 – 1881; 24 years
In office: 2 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kedah Sultanate
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Sultan of Kedah

Kedah Sultanate · the 26th of 27 dated reigns · 1136 – 1943

22 before

Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah II1842 – 1845

Zainal Rashid Al-Mu'adzam Shah I of Kedah1843 – 1854

Ahmad Tajuddin Mukarram Shah of Kedah1854 – 1879

Zainal Rashid Mu'adzam Shah II of Kedah1879 – 1881

Abdul Hamid Halim of Kedah1881 – 1943

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1879 – 1881 · 2 years · came to it aged 22

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: poison

He was poisoned and died during detention in Ligor, Nakhon Si Thammarat on 22 September 1881 and was succeeded by his half-brother as, Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim.

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