Auspicious Incident | |||||||
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Part of Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ottoman Government | Janissaries | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Unknown | 70,000[1]–135,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Most of the Janissaries were killed, executed, exiled or imprisoned.[2] |
The Auspicious Incident or Auspicious Event[3] (Ottoman Turkish: وقعۀ خيريّه, romanized: Vak'a-i Hayriyye, lit. 'Event of Fortune' in Constantinople; Vaka-i Şerriyye, "Event of Malignity" in the Balkans) was the forced disbandment of the centuries-old Janissary Corps by Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II on 15 June 1826.[4][5] Most of the 135,000 Janissaries revolted against Mahmud II, and after the rebellion was suppressed, most of them were executed, exiled or imprisoned. The disbanded Janissary corps was replaced with a more modern military force.
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