Installed as a constitutional monarch without real political authority following the Young Turk Revolution, Mehmed V reigned while power was held by the Committee of Union and Progress. Incapable of directly steering the nation through the disastrous Balkan Wars and World War I, he was compelled to declare a holy war (Jihad) against the Allies in 1914 as Caliph. He passed away in July 1918, shortly before the final collapse and defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the Great War.
Timeline
Category
Element
Year
Mehmed V
1844
Birth of Mehmed V (Period: November 2, 1844, Location: Istanbul, Turkey)
1909
31 March Incident (Age: 64 years old, Period: April 1909, Location: Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Istanbul))
Accession of Mehmed V (Age: 64 years old, Period: April 27, 1909, Location: Constantinople (present-day Istanbul))
1911
Italo-Turkish War (Age: 66 years old, Period: 1911–1912, Location: Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in North Africa, Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea, etc.)
1912
First Balkan War (Age: 67 years old, Period: 1912–1913, Location: Balkan Peninsula, especially around Macedonia, Thrace, and Albania)
1913
Second Balkan War (Age: 68 years old, Period: 1913, Location: Balkan Peninsula, especially Macedonia and Thrace)
1913 Ottoman coup d'état (Age: 68 years old, Period: January 23, 1913, Location: Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), Ottoman Government Building)
1914
World War I (Age: 69 years old, Period: 1914–1918 (during the reign of Mehmed V), Location: Caucasus, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Macedonia, etc.)
Entry into World War I and declaration of Jihad (Age: 69 years old, Period: November 1914, Location: Ottoman Empire)
1915
Armenian Genocide (Age: 70 years old, Period: 1915–end of World War I, Location: Various parts of the Ottoman Empire, especially eastern Anatolia and the Syrian region)
Repulse of Allied forces in the Battle of Gallipoli (Age: 70 years old, Period: 1915–1916, Location: Gallipoli Peninsula, around the Dardanelles Strait)
1918
Death of Mehmed V (Age: 73 years old, Period: July 3, 1918)
Unknown
Marriage (Mehmed V, Kamures Kadın, Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)
Marriage (Mehmed V, Dürrüaden Kadın, Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)
Marriage (Mehmed V, Mihrengiz Kadın, Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)
Marriage (Mehmed V, Nazperver Kadın, Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)
Marriage (Mehmed V, Dilfirib Kadın, Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)
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