Auspicious Incident

Auspicious Incident
	Part of Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire
Date	15 June 1826
Location	Ottoman Empire
Result	Janissary Corps disbanded and replaced with the Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	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". İslâm Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish).
^ "Janissary". britannica.com.
^ Goodwin, pp. 296–299.
^ Kinross, pp. 456–457
^ Shaw, pp. 19–20

[1] Kemal, Beydilli. "Vak'a-i Hayri̇yye". İslâm Ansiklopedisi (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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