Auspicious Incident

Auspicious Incident
Part of Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire
Date15 June 1826
Location
Istanbul 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[1]–135,000
Casualties and losses
Most of the Janissaries were killed, executed, exiled or imprisoned.[2]
A janissary musketeer. The entire janissary corps was disbanded during the Auspicious Incident.

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.

  1. ^ Kemal, Beydilli. "Vak'a-i Hayri̇yye". İslâm Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish).
  2. ^ "Janissary". britannica.com.
  3. ^ Goodwin, pp. 296–299.
  4. ^ Kinross, pp. 456–457
  5. ^ Shaw, pp. 19–20