A.D.                        A.H.*

1726-65                 1139-79                 Muhammad ibn Sa‘ūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muqrin (39 years)†

1765-1803            1179-1218            ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Sa‘ūd (38 years)

1803-14                 1218-29                 Sa‘ūd ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz (11 years)

1814-18                 1229-33                 ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sa‘ūd (4 years)

1818-20                 1233-5                   Period of occupation by the forces of Muḥammad ‘Alī and ibn Mu‘ammar

1820                       1235                       Mishārī ibn Sa‘ūd ( a few months)

1820-4                   1235-40                 Countinuation of occupation by Muḥammad ‘Alī (4 years)

1824-34                 1240-9                   Turkī ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad (10 years)

1834                       1250                       Mishārī ibn ‘Abd  ar-Raḥmān (40 days)

1834-9                   1250-4                   Faiṣal ibn Turkī (firt time: 5 years)

1839-41                 1254-7                   Khālid ibn Sa‘ūd (2 years)

1841-3                   1257-9                   ‘Abd Allāh ibn Thunaiyān  (2 years)

1843-65                   1259-82                   Faiṣal ibn Turkī (second time: 22 years)

1865-71                   1282-8                     ‘Abd Allāh ibn Faiṣal (first time: 6 years)

1871-4                     1288-91                   Sa‘ūd ibn Faiṣal (3 years)

1874-6                     1291-3                     ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Faiṣal (first time: 2 years)

1876-87                   1293-1305               ‘Abd Allāh ibn Faiṣal (second time: 11 years)

1887-9                     1305-7                     Period of Āl ar-Rashīd (2 years)

1889-91                   1307-9                     ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Faiṣal (second time: 2 years)

1891-1902               1309-19                   Continuation of Āl ar-Rashīd rule (11 years)

1902-53                   1319-73                   King ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Sa‘ūd (51 years)

1953-64                   1373-84                   King Sa‘ūd (11 years)

1964-75                   1384-95                   King Faiṣal (11 years)

1975-                       1395-                       King Khālid

* Anno Hegirae, the Islamic era.

†The length of reign brackets is calculated on the basis of the Gregorian

calendar.