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Ahmed I

Ahmed I, the fourteenth Ottoman sultan and son of Mehmed III, born at Manisa in 998/1590 and succeeded in 1012/1603. He built the Sultan Ahmed mosque at the Atmeydani in Istanbul, and died in 1026/1617 after a two-month illness.

Reign · Ottoman Empire · no. 6 in the chain · 1603–1617 CE

Ruled the caliphate

Events of the reign

Battle of Braşov

Draft card for the Battle of Braşov in 1603, Mózes Székely's defeat and death at the hands of the Ottoman allies; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Kaffa (1616)

Draft card for the Battle of Kaffa in 1616, the Cossack raid on the Ottoman port and its repulse; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Salmas (1616)

Draft card for Battle of Salmas (1616); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Samarkand (1613)

Draft card for Battle of Samarkand (1613); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Sasu

Draft card for the Battle of Sasu in 1612, the Moldavian victory over the Ottoman army; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Tashiskari

Draft card for the Battle of Tashiskari in 1609, the Georgian victory over the Ottomans in Kakheti; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Tsitsamuri

Draft card for the Battle of Tsitsamuri in 1615, the Georgian rising against Safavid rule; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Urmia

Draft card for the Battle of Urmia in 1605, Shah Abbas's victory over the Ottoman army; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Capture of Cambarão

Draft card for the Capture of Cambarão in 1614, the Persian victory over the Portuguese in the Gulf; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Capture of La Mámora (1614)

Draft card for the Capture of La Mámora in 1614, the Spanish seizure of the Moroccan port; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Celali Revolts

Draft card for the Celali Revolts of the late sixteenth century, Anatolia's great risings against the Ottoman state; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Kakheti rebellion (1615)

Draft card for Kakheti rebellion (1615); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Kalenderoğlu plunders Bursa

Jelali bands threatened Bursa from 1003/1595, and in 1017/1608 Kalenderoğlu came to plunder the city.
Expulsion of the Moriscos from al-Andalus

Al-Maqqari records the near-contemporary expulsion of the Moriscos 'in this recent era, in the year 1017': thousands landed at Fez, Tlemcen and Tunis, robbed on the roads by Arabs — the Tunis-bound mostly prospered; those settled at Sale by the Maghreb sultan fortified its castle, built palaces and became famed for jihad at sea — the corsairs of Sale.
The Long War

Draft card for the Long War between the Ottomans and the Habsburgs on the Hungarian frontier from 1593 to 1606; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Serbian–Ottoman Wars

Draft card for the Serbian–Ottoman wars of 1352–1913, the centuries of Serb–Ottoman conflict; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Buda

Draft card for the Siege of Buda in 1603, the Habsburgs' renewed attempt in the Long War; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Dimdim

Draft card for the Siege of Dimdim in 1609–1610, the Safavid reduction of the Kurdish Bradost emirate; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Esztergom (1605)

Draft card for the Siege of Esztergom in 1605, the Ottoman capture of the city in the Long Turkish War; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Ganja

Draft card for the Siege of Ganja in 1606, Shah Abbas I's recapture of the city from the Ottomans; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Kandahar

Draft card for the Siege of Kandahar of 1605–1606, the Safavid defense against the Mughals; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Shamakhi (1607)

Draft card for Siege of Shamakhi (1607); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Van (1605)

Draft card for Siege of Van (1605); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Erivan (1616)

Draft card for Siege of Erivan (1616); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Transylvanian–Ottoman War (1612-1613)

Draft card for Transylvanian–Ottoman War (1612-1613); its sources are not yet checked on the page.

The museum record for this caliph