Auspicious Incident

Auspicious Incident
	Part of Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire
Date	15 June 1826
Location	Constantinople and other cities of the Ottoman Empire
Result	Janissary Corps disbanded and replaced with the Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye.
Belligerents
Ottoman Government	Janissaries
Strength
Unknown	70,000 - 135,000
Casualties and losses
	Most of the Janissaries were killed, executed, exiled or imprisoned.

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.

^ Kemal, Beydilli. "VAK'A-i HAYRİYYE". islamansiklopedisi.org. (in Turkish)
^ "Janissary". britannica.com.
^ Goodwin, pp. 296–299.
^ Kinross, pp. 456–457
^ Shaw, pp. 19–20

[1] Kemal, Beydilli. "VAK'A-i HAYRİYYE". islamansiklopedisi.org. (in Turkish)

[2] "Janissary". britannica.com.

[Goodwin296-3] Goodwin, pp. 296–299.

[Kinross456-4] Kinross, pp. 456–457

[Shaw19-5] Shaw, pp. 19–20

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