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| 1609 |
| | | The Blue Mosque, commissioned by Ahmed I, begins to rise in Istanbul like a twin to the nearby Santa Sophia | |
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| 1660 |
| | | On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary | |
|  | First page of Pepys's diary
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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| 1717 |
| | | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, observing the Turkish practice of inoculation against smallpox, submits her infant son to the treatment | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A border incident at Balta, in the southern Ukraine, sparks a war between Russia and Turkey that will last six years | |
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| 1774 |
| | | In the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji, ending the recent Russo-Turkish war, the Ottoman empire cedes the Crimea to Russia | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The Eastern Question, concerning Turkey's ability to control its vast empire, becomes a persistent nineteenth-century theme | |
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| 1841 |
| | | The Straits Convention, agreed between the European powers and Turkey, is a concerted attempt to prop up the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The Russian tsar, Nicholas I, calls Turkey 'the sick man of Europe' | |
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| 1852 |
| | | France demands that Turkey should end Russia's exclusive control of the Christian Holy Places in the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Russia insists that her exclusive rights over the Holy Places are enshrined in the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji | |
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