Beginnings of reform: 

1776 Naval Engineering School

Selim III (1796-1807)

Nizam-i Jedid Army

1826 destruction of Janissaries

Problems:

1820 Greek uprising---1832 Greek independence

1828 War against Russia; treaty limits Ottoman sovereignty on Straights 

1830 French conquest of Algeria

1831 Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali takes Syria (to 1841)

 

Tanzimat: reordering 1839-1876

Military

military training abroad 1820s

Modern Army, Prussian training, 1830s

Military schools

 

Government

from tax farming to salaried tax collectors

strengthen central control over provinces

Inspectors

Census

training for government offices

Legislative Council

Translation school (1830s)

education for Sultan

Diplomatic corps reform

Hatt-i Sherif (guarantees of property)

 

Crimean War 1853-56

Islahat Fermani 1856

Land reform 1858

Ending slavery, 1870s

Constitution, 1876

Sultan Abdul Hamid II, 1876-1908

 

EGYPT

1760s Egyptian self-rule by Mamluks

1799 Napoleon invaded Egypt; Ottomans and British united to evict French in 1801

1805 Egyptian autonomy under Muhammad Ali (d. 1844)

waqf

commercial crops

state control of land

industrialization

1815 new style army conscription

1831 military schools

public education

1832 medical schools

Saint-Simonians

 

Military conquests:

1810s Arabian penninsula

1820 on Ottoman side vs. Greeks

1831 Palestine, Syria

1841 defeated by Anglo-Ottoman forces

 

dynasty of rulers with title Khedive