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Historical Events
Results 1 - 100 of 296
1098-06-03 - After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey
1371-09-26 - Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey
1402-06-20 - Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
1453-04-21 - Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1499-08-25 - Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians
1509-02-02 - The Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.
1516-10-28 - Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
1520-09-30 - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey
1521-08-28 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1521-09-28 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1521-09-29 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1522-12-25 - Turkish troops occupy Rhodos
1534-06-12 - Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples
1534-08-20 - Turkish admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1534-12-04 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1536-02-18 - France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel
1538-09-28 - Battle at Preveza: Turkish fleet under Barbarossa beats Spanish
1540-05-04 - Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1540-07-23 - Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary
1540-10-02 - Venice/Turkey signs peace
1541-08-26 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary
1542-08-28 - Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1543-08-05 - French & Turkish troops occupy Nice
1543-09-06 - French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1544-05-01 - Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1547-06-13 - King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman
1551-08-14 - Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli
1560-07-29 - Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
1565-09-08 - Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John
1571-05-20 - Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League
1571-10-07 - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet
1573-03-07 - Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1574-09-13 - Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis
1606-11-11 - Turkey & Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok
1620-05-17 - 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1621-06-19 - Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece
1621-10-09 - Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin
1654-05-13 - Venetian fleet under Adm Adeler beats Turkish
1663-09-25 - Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to Turkish invasion army
1664-01-21 - Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1664-05-14 - Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
1664-08-10 - Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vásvár
1672-10-18 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz
1676-10-27 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
1676-11-03 - Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
1683-03-31 - Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1683-07-16 - Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna
1683-09-03 - Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1683-09-12 - Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski
1687-08-12 - Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders
1690-10-08 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1697-09-11 - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power
1699-01-26 - Venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey
1700-07-13 - Russian-Turkish peace
1700-11-30 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1703-08-21 - Turkish army removes sultan Mustafa II
1713-07-27 - Russia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1714-11-22 - King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1718-08-21 - Emperor Karel VI, Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty
1724-06-23 - Russia & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1730-09-17 - Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees
1737-07-18 - Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
1738-05-27 - Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
1738-08-02 - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
1739-09-18 - Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1739-09-23 - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade
1739-10-03 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
1770-07-06 - Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1774-07-21 - Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War)
1774-07-21 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
1775-05-07 - Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
1784-01-06 - Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
1787-08-10 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1790-12-22 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1791-08-04 - Austria & Turkey sign Peace of Sistova
1792-01-09 - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1800-03-20 - French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo
1808-07-28 - Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey
1821-03-25 - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1826-04-10 - The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1826-06-10 - Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
1828-04-26 - Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1829-09-14 - Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
1831-03-29 - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
1833-07-08 - Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty
1839-07-01 - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey
1839-11-03 - Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1856-02-29 - Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
1862-06-30 - Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia: Confederate assault attack
1863-09-16 - Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1864-10-25 - Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS & Turkeytown, AL
1876-06-30 - Serbia declares war on Turkey
1876-07-03 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1876-12-23 - Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
1877-04-24 - Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
1877-04-24 - Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1878-02-02 - Greece declares war on Turkey
1878-03-03 - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
1878-06-04 - Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
1878-07-30 - Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 100 of 112
1441-02-09 - Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author (Mahbub al-kulub)
1494-11-06 - Sulayman I, the Great, sultan of Turkey (1520-66)
1524-05-30 - Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
1546-07-04 - Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95)
1566-05-26 - Mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603)
1590-04-18 - Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17)
1604-11-03 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22)
1612-07-27 - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad
1638-01-12 - Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austrian fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)
1642-01-02 - Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)
1642-08-01 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) [or Feb 25, 1643]
1643-02-25 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)
1657-11-11 - Guido Starhemberg, Austria earl/fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)
1664-06-05 - Mustafa II, sultan of Turkey (1695-1703)
1673-12-12 - Ahmed III, 23rd sultan (Turkey, 1703-30)
1696-08-02 - Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia
1699-01-02 - Osman III, sultan (Turkey)
1717-01-28 - Mustapha III, Sultan of Turkey (1757-74)
1761-12-24 - Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808)
1779-09-08 - Mustafa IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08)
1785-07-20 - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39)/Westernizer/reformer
1811-01-05 - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey)
1822-03-22 - Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education/Justice
1840-09-21 - Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876)
1840-12-11 - Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872)
1840-12-21 - Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan)
1844-11-03 - Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18)
1848-01-05 - Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet
1855-02-17 - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)
1861-02-02 - Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22)
1881-03-09 - Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician
1881-05-19 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1881-12-22 - Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician
1889-03-27 - Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
1889-04-20 - Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996)
1901-05-08 - Turkey Stearnes, baseball player (d. 1979)
1909-09-07 - Elia Kazan, Constaninople Turkey, director (Streetcar Named Desire)
1922-03-30 - Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
1924-01-27 - Rauf Denktasj, Turkish-Cypriot politician
1924-11-01 - Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey
1930-01-24 - Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer/multi-millionaire
1931-12-06 - Zeki Müren, Turkish actor, singer, and composer (d. 1996)
1937-09-07 - Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
1939-07-10 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1941-08-06 - Hubertus AGM "Bert" Andre, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit-Come Back)
1941-09-13 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
1941-11-21 - İdil Biret, Turkish pianist
1942-04-13 - Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer.
1942-08-22 - Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1943-01-02 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television producer (d. 1999)
1944-11-11 - Kemal Sunal,Turkish actor
1945-08-22 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
1945-09-01 - Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
1945-10-18 - Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player
1946-02-12 - Ajda Pekkan, Turkish singer
1948-10-14 - Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
1950-03-05 - Eugene Fodor, Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
1952-07-28 - Monique van de Ven, Dutch actress (Turkish Fruit)
1952-10-06 - Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
1953-10-04 - Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor
1954-02-26 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
1954-06-05 - Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
1954-06-21 - Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
1954-07-13 - Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
1954-09-15 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
1957-07-07 - Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact)
1958-01-09 - Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
1964-12-04 - Sertab Erener, Turkish singer
1967-01-23 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria, Turkish weight lifter (Oly-gold-1988)
1967-03-04 - Kubilay Türkyılmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer
1967-11-20 - Teoman, Turkish rock singer
1968-08-25 - Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
1968-11-24 - Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
1970-02-16 - Serdar Ortac, Turkish popstar
1970-04-14 - Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer
1970-08-24 - Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer
1971-09-01 - Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
1971-09-29 - Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
1972-04-12 - Sebnem Ferah, Turkish singer
1972-10-17 - Tarkan, Turkish singer
1973-01-12 - Hande Yener, Turkish singer
1973-05-29 - Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
1973-07-14 - Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1973-08-25 - Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director
1974-10-31 - Muzzy Izzet, Turkish footballer
1975-08-07 - Koray Candemir, Turkish singer
1975-08-17 - İlhan Mansız, Turkish footballer
1976-03-26 - Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress
1976-07-14 - Yesim Cetin, Miss Turkey Universe (1997)
1976-08-01 - Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer
1977-04-05 - Sevilay Ozturk, Miss Universe-Turkey (1996)
1977-06-28 - Harun Tekin, Turkish musician, Mor ve Ötesi
1978-12-12 - Evren Genis, Turkish composer
1978-12-24 - Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer
1979-03-19 - Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
1979-05-12 - Erdinç Saçan, Turkish-Dutch politician
1979-05-26 - Mehmet Okur (Memo), Turkish basketball player
1979-06-29 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1980-03-30 - Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter
1980-06-16 - Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 83 of 83
1030-04-30 - Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies
1063-09-04 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad
1072-12-15 - Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
1260-10-23 - Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
1397-06-15 - Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity
1403-03-08 - Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42
1421-05-26 - Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies
1451-02-03 - Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies
1495-02-25 - Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35
1501-01-03 - Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59
1512-05-26 - Bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies
1520-09-21 - Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies
1520-09-22 - Selim I, captured Baghdad/Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), dies at 53
1566-09-05 - Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71
1571-10-07 - Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle
1574-12-13 - Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50
1579-06-30 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
1595-01-16 - Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies
1601-08-19 - Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies
1603-12-22 - Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37
1617-11-22 - Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17), dies
1622-05-20 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies
1639-01-20 - Mustapha I, sultan of Turkey (1622-23), dies
1640-02-09 - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27
1657-09-26 - Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer, dies at 48
1661-10-31 - Mehmed Koprulu, Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies
1676-10-30 - Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies
1683-12-25 - Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed
1691-08-19 - Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle
1693-01-06 - Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey), dies at 51
1695-02-06 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95), dies
1702-09-22 - Hoessein Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (peace of Karlowitz), dies
1703-12-29 - Mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39
1712-04-10 - Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1754-12-14 - Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58
1757-10-30 - Osman III, sultan of Turkey (1754-57), dies
1774-01-21 - Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56
1808-07-29 - Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies
1808-11-16 - Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29
1839-07-01 - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53
1871-09-07 - Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies
1888-12-02 - Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
1895-05-25 - Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Justice, dies at 73
1904-08-29 - Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies
1913-01-23 - Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated
1918-07-02 - Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies
1922-07-21 - Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered
1922-08-04 - Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40
1926-05-15 - Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies
1926-05-16 - Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
1929-08-22 - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74
1938-11-10 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
1944-01-14 - Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74
1961-09-17 - Adnan Menderes, PM of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62
1963-06-03 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
1964-01-09 - Halide Edib Adevar/Salih, Turkish feminist (Handan), dies at about 80
1968-12-01 - Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
1972-05-06 - Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Left-wing Political Activist (b. 1947)
1972-06-13 - Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
1973-12-25 - İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman (b. 1884)
1975-10-24 - Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris
1981-02-26 - FC Terborgh, [Reijnier Flaes], lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at 79
1991-03-16 - Wim van den Brink, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien), dies
1991-09-13 - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1993-01-24 - Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (Cumhuriyet Murder), dies
1993-04-17 - Turgut Özal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65
1993-09-04 - Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered
1994-09-29 - Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered
1995-01-11 - Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59
1996-11-03 - Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)
1997-04-05 - Alparslan Turkes, Turkish politician (MHP), dies
1999-02-01 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (b. 1943)
2000-07-03 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2002-07-13 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
2003-10-16 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
2003-11-20 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
2004-08-15 - Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
2006-11-05 - Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister (b. 1925)
2007-01-19 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
2007-07-04 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
2007-11-30 - Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)
2008-05-10 - Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
2008-07-05 - Hasan Doğan, 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (b. 1956)
