List of sultans of Brunei

This is a list of sultans of Brunei.
Sultans
+ Sultans of Brunei since 1368  Name Reign start Reign end Notes1Muhammad Shah / Awang Alak Betatar13631402Established the Sultanate.2Ahmad / Awang Pateh Berbai140814253Sharif Ali / Sultan Barkat (Blessed Sultan)14251432No direct genealogical relation to predecessor, but was selected as he was the son-in-law of the previous sultan (Ahmad) and was well versed in Islam.4Sulaiman14321485Son of the previous sultan, Sharif Ali. Abdicated to allow his son Bolkiah to become sultan.5Bolkiah / Nakhoda Ragam (The Singing Captain)14851524Son of the previous sultan, Sulaiman.6Abdul Kahar15241530Son of the previous sultan, Bolkiah7Saiful Rijal15331581Nephew and adopted-son of the previous sultan, Abdul Kahar. Castile War broke out between Brunei and Spain.8Shah Berunai15811582Eldest son of Sultan Saiful Rijal9Muhammad Hassan15821598Younger brother of Shah Berunai.10Abdul Jalilul Akbar1598165911Abdul Jalilul Jabbar1659166012Muhammad Ali16601661Strangled by his successor Abdul Hakkul Mubin, sparking the Brunei Civil War.13Abdul Hakkul Mubin16601673Started the Brunei Civil War by killing his predecessor Muhammad Ali and was in turn killed by Muhyiddin who succeeded him as Sultan.14Muhyiddin16731690Son of Abdul Jalilul Akbar who avenged the death of his father-in-law Muhammad Ali by killing Abdul Hakkul Mubin, thus ending the Brunei Civil War.15Nasruddin1690171016Hussin Kamaluddin17101730He ruled for the second time between 1737 and 1740.17Muhammad Alauddin17301737Instructed Datu Imam Yaakub to write the Silsilah Raja-Raja Berunai or the Genealogy of the Sultans of Brunei.18Omar Ali Saifuddin I1740177819Muhammad Tajuddin17781807Ordered Khatib Abdul Latif to inscribe Batu Tarsilah or Stone Tablet.20Muhammad Jamalul Alam I1804180421Muhammad Kanzul Alam1807182622Muhammad Alam1826182823Omar Ali Saifuddin II18281852Brunei ceded some territories of Sarawak to James Brooke. Brunei ceded Labuan to the British.24Abdul Momin185229 May 1885Brunei ceded northwestern part of Borneo to the British. The declaration of Amanat took place in 1884 that vowed not to cede more Brunei territories to foreign powers.25Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin29 May 188510 May 1906United Kingdom established protectorate over Brunei in 1888.26Muhammad Jamalul Alam II10 May 190611 September 1924The Sultan's reign was a short one. An outbreak of malaria claimed his life as well as three members of his family.27Ahmad Tajuddin11 September 19244 June 1950Japanese occupation of Brunei took place.28Omar Ali Saifuddien III4 June 19505 June 1966Signed the Brunei Constitution of 1959. Abdicated voluntarily in favor of his eldest son, Hassanal Bolkiah. Became Brunei's first Defence Minister after independence in 1984.29Hassanal Bolkiah5 June 1966IncumbentBrunei regained independence from the United Kingdom in 1984.

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