What the records say
- When
- 27 Aug 1896
- Kind
- War
- Coordinates
- 6.14° S, 39.34° E
- Description
- colonial war by the United Kingdom in East-Africa
Anglo-Zanzibar War
1896 military conflict in East Africa
The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history. The immediate cause of the war was the suspicious death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini on 25 August 1896 and the subsequent succession of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash.
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