Enlightenment · Middle East · Politics

1677

Kara Mustafa Appointed Grand Vizier

1677

Sultan Mehmed IV elevated his ambitious brother-in-law Kara Mustafa Pasha to the office of Grand Vizier. Kara Mustafa dreamed of sacking Vienna and marching to the Rhine. Within six years he would lead the largest Ottoman army ever assembled to the gates of the Habsburg capital - and lose everything, including his head.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: 1666: Sabbatai Zevi Converts to Islam
After: January 26, 1699: Treaty of Karlowitz

Before and after in Politics

Before: September 19, 1676: Bacon's Rebellion
After: 1678: Popish Plot Fabricated

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.