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| 1 July 1839 | Accession of Sultan Abdül Mejid 1st |
| Mai 1853 | Russia sends an ultimatum to the Ottoman, beginning of Crimean war. |
| 10 September 1855 | Fall of Sebastopol, end of Crimean War |
| 30 march 1856 | Treaty of Paris |
| 1861 | Accession of Sultan Abdül Aziz |
| 1863 | Foundation of Banque Ottomane |
| 1869 | Opening of Suez Canal |
| 30 May 1876 | Accession of Murad V |
| 1 September 1876 | Accession of Sultan Abülhamit II |
| 1876 1878 | War with Serbia and Russia |
| 19 April 1877 | Russia declares war to the Ottoman empire. |
| 3 March 1878 | Treaty of San Stefanos. Russia gains Kars. This is confirmed on 13 July by the treaty of Berlin |
| 1878 | Congress of Berlin: Serbia, Roumania, Bulgaria become independent. Bosnia Herzegovina occupied by Austria |
| 24 May 1881 | Thessaly ceded to Greece |
| 24 July 1908 | CUP forces Abülhamit II to introduce constitutional rules and in effect takes power (So called Young Türks revolution) |
| 27 April 1909 | Sultan Abülhamit II is deposed and replaced by Mehmet V |
| 1911 | Entrevue de Potsdam Guillaume II and Nicolas II: the Germans can proceed with the Bagdad bahn, Russia special interest in Persia are recognized by Germany |
| 8 October 1912 | 1st Balkan war, Salonica falls to Greece |
| 19 June 1913 | 2nd Balkan war, new Bulgarian frontier |
| 2 November 1914 | Russia declares wars on Ottoman Empire (followed by France and Britain) |
| January 1915 | Ottomans defeated by Russians at Sarikamis |
| 18 March 1915 | Beginning of Gallipoli battle |
| 9 January 1916 | Allies complete retreat from Gallipoli |
| 16 February 1916 | Russian forces takes Erzurum |
| 3 December 1917 | Brest-Litovsk treaty between Germany and Russian Bolsheviks. |
| 3 July 1918 | Sultan Mehmet V dies and is replaced by Vahdettin (Sultan Mehmet VI) |
| 30 October 1918 | Mudros Armistice between Ottomans and the Allies |
| 15 May 1919 | Greek forces occupies Izmir |
| 22 June 1919 | Mustafa Kemal meets the Nationalist commanders and issues first resistance proclamation |
| 27 December 1919 | Mustafa Kemal arrives in Ankara |
| 16 march 1920 | British troops compete occupation of Istanbul |
| 22 June 1920 | Greek troops cross Milne line and occupies western Anatolia. |
| 10 August 1920 | Treaty of Sèvres |
| 30 October 1920 | Kars captured from the Armenians, Victory confirmed by the treaty of Gümrü, 2 December 1920 |
| 10 July 1921 | Kütahya and Eskisehir captured by Greek forces |
| 13 October 1921 | Treaty of Kars |
| 20 October 1921 | French Turkish accord, French forces withdraw from Cilicia. |
| 26 August 1922 | Turkish troops launch decisive offensive against the Greeks. |
| 9 September 1922 | Turkish troops occupies Izmir |
| 23 September 1922 | Turkish troops enter the straights neutral zone |
| 17 November 1922 | Sultan Vahdettin flees from Istanbul |
| 24 July 1923 | Treaty of Lausanne |
| 2 October 1923 | Allies evacuates from Istanbul |
| 29 October 1923 | Turkish Republic proclaimed |
| 1 November 1928 | Latin alphabet and numerals is adopted by law |
| 27 may 1935 | International week-end adopted |
| 20 July 1936 | Montreux convention |
| 10 November 1938 | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk dies at 9h05 |
| 29 June 1939 | Hatay (formerly Sancak of Alexandretta) becomes part of Turkey. |
