Industrial Age · Middle East · Politics

1826

Auspicious Incident

June 15, 1826

Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II surrounded the mutinous Janissary corps in their Istanbul barracks and burned them inside. For four centuries the Janissaries had made and unmade sultans. Their destruction opened the way for a European-style army, and for the long reform program the Ottomans called the Tanzimat. Thousands of Janissaries were killed or exiled across the empire, and their military order was formally dissolved overnight.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: March 1, 1811: Muhammad Ali's Citadel Massacre
After: February 22, 1828: Treaty of Turkmenchay

Before and after in Politics

Before: December 26, 1825: Decembrist Uprising
After: July 6, 1827: Treaty of London on Greek Independence

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Auspicious Incident