The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb died at Ahmednagar in the year:

The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb died on 3 March 1707 at Ahmednagar, in the Deccan, at the age of about 88.

His last years:

• Aurangzeb spent his last years far from the capital, fighting the Marathas and other powers.
• Despite his age, he personally led campaigns and sieges of Maratha forts.
• The war drained the empire's treasury and resources, and he was unable to defeat the Marathas completely.
• In his last letters to his sons, he expressed regret and a sense of failure, writing that he had come alone and was going alone, and that he did not know who he was or what he had been doing.

His burial:

• In accordance with his wishes, he was buried in a simple, unroofed grave at Khuldabad, near Aurangabad (Maharashtra), near the dargah of the Sufi saint Shaikh Zainuddin Shirazi.
• His grave is open to the sky and is covered with earth, with a plant growing on it.
• He had asked that his funeral be paid for with money he had earned by sewing caps.

After his death:

• A war of succession broke out among his sons.
• His son Muazzam defeated his brothers (Azam Shah and Kam Bakhsh) and became emperor as Bahadur Shah I (1707-1712).
• The period after 1707 saw the rapid decline of Mughal power.
• Weak emperors, court factions and powerful nobles (such as the Sayyid brothers) dominated the court.
• Provinces such as Bengal, Awadh and Hyderabad became virtually independent.
• The Marathas, Sikhs and Jats expanded their power.
• Foreign invasions from Persia and Afghanistan weakened the empire further.

Historians' views:

Many historians regard 1707 as a turning point, marking the beginning of the decline of the Mughal empire.

Why not the other options?

• ✗1689 was the year Sambhaji was captured and executed.
• ✗1700 was during the Deccan wars.
• ✗1712 was the year of Bahadur Shah I's death.