Ottoman Istanbul · event 52 of 66

July 1839

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 of Istanbul.

The Ottoman era

  1. 29 May 1453
  2. 1455
  3. 1458
  4. 1459
  5. 1463
  6. 3 May 1481
  7. 10 September 1509
  8. 1520
  9. 1543
  10. 1550
  11. 7 September 1566
  12. 1574
  13. 1583
  14. 1595
  15. 1597
  16. 1603
  17. 1604
  18. 1616
  19. 1617
  20. 1622
  21. 1623
  22. 1640
  23. 8 August 1648
  24. 18 August 1648
  25. 1648
  26. 24 July 1660
  27. 1660
  28. 1665
  29. 14 July 1683
  30. 1687
  31. 8 November 1687
  32. 22 June 1691
  33. 6 February 1695
  34. 26 January 1699
  35. 1703
  36. 21 July 1718
  37. 20 September 1730
  38. 28 September 1730
  39. 1749
  40. 13 December 1754
  41. 1755
  42. 30 October 1757
  43. 1760
  44. 1769
  45. 21 January 1774
  46. 1778
  47. 1789
  48. 29 May 1807
  49. 1807
  50. 1821
  51. July 1832
  52. July 1839
  53. 1843
  54. 1845
  55. 1853
  56. 1856
  57. 25 June 1861
  58. 1861
  59. 1876
  60. 1877
  61. 1878
  62. 1908
  63. 1909
  64. 3 July 1918
  65. 1919
  66. 1922

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