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Midhat Pasha, one of the leaders of the 30 May 1876 coup. One day before the coup, on May 29, 1876, the head of the Young Ottoman secret society, Midhat Pasha, serasker Hüseyin Avni Pasha, War School Minister Süleyman Pasha, Council of Military Chief Ahmed Pasha received a fatwa from the new sheikh al-Islam Hayrullah for the removal of the Sultan.
Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: The Committee of Union and Progress, a Young Turks organization, rebelled against the absolute rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II which resulted in the restoration of the Ottoman constitution of 1876 and marked the beginning of the Second Constitutional Era and multi-party politics in the Ottoman Empire.
The 1876–77 Constantinople Conference (Turkish: Tersane Konferansı "Shipyard Conference", after the venue Tersane Sarayı "Shipyard Palace") of the Great Powers (Austria-Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia) was held in Constantinople (now Istanbul) [1] from 23 December 1876 until 20 January 1877.
The Ottoman Ministry of Post was established in Istanbul on 23 October 1840. [56] [57] The first post office was the Postahane-i Amire near the courtyard of the Yeni Mosque. [56] In 1876 the first international mailing network between Istanbul and the lands beyond the vast Ottoman Empire was established. [56]
The April Uprising (Bulgarian: Априлско въстание, romanized: Aprilsko vastanie) was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876. The rebellion was suppressed by irregular Ottoman bashi-bazouk units that engaged in indiscriminate slaughter of both rebels and non-combatants (see Batak ...
Territorial extent of the Ottoman Empire in 1875, right before the Great Eastern Crisis The Batak massacre carried out by Ottoman irregular troops in Bulgaria (1876) The Avenger: An Allegorical War Map for 1877 by Fred. W. Rose, 1872: This map reflects the Great Eastern Crisis and the subsequent Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).
Sultan Abdul Hamid II (r. 1876–1909) began his reign with a loss in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), which caused one of the worst territorial losses in Ottoman history. [22] Although disastrous for the Ottoman Empire, the loss galvanized support for the Ottoman dynasty from Muslims outside of the empire. [22]
The Ottoman Empire was in decline by the early 19th century, and had lost much of the territory it had ruled over only a century earlier. However, the threat of the conservative, traditionalist Janissaries , the sultan's elite troops, prevented reforms from being enacted by more liberal rulers.