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As a result of the Young Turk Revolution, Abdul Hamid II was deposed and his brother Mehmet V was made the Sultan. Other key achievements of the revolution were reinstatement of the Parliament [...]
In the month of May, the ministers of Abdulaziz overthrew him from the throne and Murad V became the Sultan, albeit only for three months. During his reign, two Grand Viziers of the Ottoman [...]
The Beylerbeyi Palace was commissioned by Sultan Abdulaziz and the construction of the palace began. It served as a summer residence and a place for the entertainment of visitors to the empire.
The construction of the Buyuk Mecidiye Camii, also known as the Ortakoy Mosque, was ordered by Sultan Adbulmecid I. The Turkish meaning of the name of this mosque is Grand Imperial Mosque of [...]
Valide Sultan Bezmialem, mother of Abdulmecid I, ordered the construction of the first Galata Bridge atop the Golden Horn. It was then known as the Cisr-i Cedid or New Bridge.
This was the year in which Sultan Abdulmecid I commissioned the construction of the Dolmabahce Palace which became the primary center of administration for the Ottoman Empire.
Abdulmecid I took over as the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire following the death of his father Mahmud II. He is considered by historians as the ruler who kick-started the modernization of the city [...]
Under the reign of Mahmud II, the Greeks began their quest to gain independence from the Ottoman Empire with assistance from other European superpowers.
In one of the shortest reigns by a Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa IV took over the reins of the empire from his cousin, Selim III, for a year before he was killed in 1808 by the orders of [...]
Sultan Selim III was compelled to give way his throne to his cousin Mustafa IV due to pressure from the Janissaries. He eventually lost his life to an attack by a group of assassins in 1808.
Sultan Mustafa III died at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and his brother and another son of Ahmed III, Abdul Hamid I became his successor to the Ottoman imperial throne.
Mahmud I ordered the construction of the famous Nuruosmaniye Mosque in this year. It was the first mosque in Istanbul to use the Baroque style of architecture.
The Patrona Halil Revolt, which was in opposition to the reforms introduced by Ahmed III, took place on this day and brought an end to the Tulip Era of the Ottoman Empire.
