Enlightenment · Middle East · Politics

1718

Treaty of Passarowitz

July 21, 1718

Austria and Venice signed peace with the Ottomans in a Serbian village. Austria gained Belgrade and northern Serbia; Venice lost the Morea. Ottoman diplomats took home a new fashion for tulips and French gardens. The era of Turkish advance into Europe was definitively over; the era of Turkish decline had begun.

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Before: April 30, 1716: Yoshimune Becomes Shogun
After: November 15, 1719: Accession of Muhammad Shah

Era

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

Sources

Wikipedia: Treaty of Passarowitz