Fall of Belgrade

August 22, 1717

Eugene of Savoy crossed the Sava under Ottoman fire and stormed Belgrade, ending the seventh Austro-Turkish war. The Treaty of Passarowitz that followed gave Austria its greatest Balkan extent. The Turks, humiliated, withdrew into the Tulip Era's sighs and silences. Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha turned Ottoman energies inward, cultivating gardens, printing presses, and a brief flowering of reform before the Janissaries ended it.