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New Ottoman Parliament building, Ciragan Palace, burns down. (Shaw, 287).
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- People’s Party is formed out of the CUP
- Ottoman Committee of Alliance also forms- Liberal Moderate forms
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revolt in Kosovo against Ottoman government (Hamilton and Herwig, 338).
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rebellion in Yemen against Ottoman government (Hamilton and Herwig, 339).
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Sultan Mehmet V visited Kosova to calm the situation in Albania (Shaw, 288)
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Turkish Society becomes Turkish Homeland Society, a movement of Turkish nationalism under Yusuf Akcura and Ahmet Agaoglu (Shaw, 289).
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Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha resigns due to failure of relations with Italy (Shaw, 290).
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Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire (Shaw, 290).
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Tripoli under Italian naval blockade (Shaw, 290).
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CUP becomes coalition government with members from opposition groups with Sait Pasha as Grand Vizier (Shaw, 290).
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Italy bombards Tripoli (Shaw, 290).
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Italy annexes Tripoli and Bengazi, but Ottoman guerilla forces remain on the interiors (Shaw, 290).
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Sultan Mehmed V dissolves Parliament in order to avoid investigation by the Liberal Union Party into whether the government was capable of defending Tripoli (Shaw, 291).
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Sait Pasha resigns as Grand Vizier following threats from the Group of Liberating Officers, who were trying to eliminate the CUP (Shaw, 291).
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Sultan Mehmed V dissolves Parliament, call for new elections in effort to restrict the CUP (Shaw, 292).
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Ottomans compromise with Albanians; revolt ends (Shaw, 293).
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Balkan war started by the Kingdom of Montenegro (Hamilton and Herwig, 340).
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Agreement made at Ouchy, near Lausanne, that Ottoman Empire would leave Tripoli and Cyrenaica and Italians would leave Dodecanese. Italians never leave. (Shaw 293)
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Albanian Declaration of Independence declared by a National Assembly of Muslims and Christians led by Ismail Kemal Vlora (Shaw, 297).
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CUP organizes “Raid of Sublime Porte” led by Enver Bey. Minister of war, General Huseyin Nazim Pasha shot in grand vizier's office by accident (Hamilton and Herwig, 340) and Mahmut Sevket Pasha becomes Grand Vizier (Shaw, 295).
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Kamil Pasha arrested on his return to Istanbul for offering government information to British (Shaw, 296).
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Treaty of London signed to end First Balkan War. Ottoman boundary is at the Midye-Enez line. (Shaw, 296).
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Mehmet Sait Pasha Grand Vizier, four CUP committee members become cabinet members, & CUP dictatorship begins (Shaw, 296).
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Mahmut Sevket Pasha assassinated (Fieldhouse, 17).
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Enver Bey joins the cabinet as Minister of War (Hamilton and Herwig, 341).
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Enver Pasha reaches out to German ambassador, Hans Baron von Wangenheim, for support (Hamilton and Herwig, 345).
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Ottoman alliance proposal submitted to German government same day that Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia (Hamilton and Herwig, 345).
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alliance treaty between Germany and Ottoman Empire signed by Wangenheim and Prince Said Halim (Hamilton and Herwig, 346).
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Ottoman Empire declares mobilization and neutrality simultaneously (Hamilton and Herwig, 346).
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Winston Churchill announces British will use England-built ships that belong to the Ottoman Empire (Shaw, 311).
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Enver Pasha assures Russian military in Istanbul that the mobilization is not aimed against Russia (Hamilton and Herwig, 346).
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Enver arranges for German ships to pass through “neutral” Ottoman waters (Shaw, 311). Prince Said Halim and the cabinet object this decision to Wangenheim (Hamilton and Herwig, 349).
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Ottoman Empire abolishes capitulations for all foreign powers (Hamilton and Herwig, 350).
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Cemal authorizes Admiral Souchon to attack Russian ships in the Black Sea (Hamilton and Herwig, 350-351).
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Ottoman Empire receives 2 billion kurus of gold from Germany to declare war. (authorized by Enver only) (Shaw, 312).
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Admiral Souchon bombards the Russian coast and destroys Russia's ships. (Shaw, 312).
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Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire (Hamilton and Herwig, 354).
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France and Britain declare war on Ottoman Empire (Shaw, 312).
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Sultan Mehmed V declares war on Russia in return and uses claimed role as caliph to ask all Muslims to join in Holy War against the Entente (Shaw, 312).
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Britain declares independence and protection of Egypt (Shaw, 312).
