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5 July
Sunday Hijri 20 Muharram 1448 AH
By the Gregorian calendar 5 July
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15176 July
Keys of the Kaaba presented to Sultan Selim I in Cairo
On 6 July 1517, at the imperial council in Cairo, Abu Numayy, son of Sharif Barakat of Mecca, presented the keys of the Kaaba and gifts to Sultan Selim I. The sultan formally took Mecca and Medina under his protection; from Selim onward, Ottoman sultans bore the title "Servant of the Two Holy Sanctuaries".