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Group: Tripolitania (Regency of Tripoli, Tripoli-in-the-West), Ottoman eyalet of
People: Louis XVI of France
Topic: Auspicious Incident (or Event), aka Massacre of the Janissaries
Location: Augusta Trevorum > Trier Rheinland-Pfalz Germany

Auspicious Incident (or Event), aka Massacre of the Janissaries

Years: 1826 - 1826

The Auspicious Incident (or Event) is the forced disbandment of the centuries-old Janissary corps by Ottoman sultan Mahmud II in June of 1826.

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”

— Paul Harvey, radio broadcast (before 1977)