Dauda was a Sultan of

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who reigned from 1421 to 1438.; i
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The dates of Dauda's reign are based on the interpretation of the Kano Chronicle, which listed the length of reign (in years and months) of rulers up to

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, who was known to have died on 8 September

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after having " ruled Kano 27 years and 8 days". Abdullahi's predecessors were Osumanu ("9 years and 10 months"), Ibrahim Dabo ("27 years and 3 months and 9 days"),

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("13 years") and

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("27 years"), with the lengths of rule totaling 883 years before 1882 to the first ruler,

Bagauda Daud Dan Bawo, also known as Bagauda or Yakano, was the first King of Kano, in what is now northern Nigeria, reigning from 999 to 1063. He established a dynasty which would go on to rule the state for over 800 years. According to the ''Kano Chro ...

, whose rule of "66 years" would thus have begun in AD 999

Biography in the ''Kano Chronicle''

Below is a biography of Dauda from

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's 1908 English translation of the ''

Kano Chronicle The ''Kano Chronicle'' (Arabic: تاريخ أرباب هذا البلاد المصممة كان; ''The history of the masters of this country it was designed'') is an Arabic-language manuscript that lists the rulers of Kano. Summary The ''Kano ...

''.

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