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On this day (3rd March, 1707), the Great Mughal Emperor Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad better known as Aurangzeb Alamgir, at the age of 88 years old, died of natural causes at his imperial war tent.

"Gradually unconsciousness crept on, his breathing became harder and harder, but such was the mastery of that indomitable spirit over his rosary and his lips to gasp out the remembrance of God, till about eight O clock when all was over. He had ever wishes to die on the blessed day of Friday, and the prayer had been granted by the gracious deity to one of his truest servants."

Credit: Mughal Imperial Archives