Instead the sultan's cousin Khalid saw an opportunity and got to the palace first declaring himself the sultan instead and barricaded himself inside with around 3,000 of his loyal followers.
Circassian women, from the Caucasus Mountains and in great demand for the Turkish sultan's harem, were inoculated as children in parts of their bodies where scars would not easily be seen.
The Ottoman sultan, Abdul Hamid II, ordered the sarcophagi exhumed, placed on rails and carried down to the Mediterranean coast, where they were sent by ship to Istanbul.
The sultan of Brunei, the presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan, the Thai prime minister and the South Korean National Assembly speaker will also attend the Games' opening ceremony.
The British then installed their loyal puppet as the sultan and Zanzibar remained a British protectorate for the next 67 years without another violent uprising again.