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| 1806 |
| | | Karageorge captures Belgrade and wins a limited independence for Serbia within the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1813 |
| | | The Turks recapture Belgrade and sell thousands of Serb women and children into slavery | |
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| 1821 |
| | | An uprising in Greece against Turkish rule is followed by the massacre of several thousand Muslims | |
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| 1827 |
| | | The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion | |
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| 1827 |
| | | Britain, France and Russia, supporting Greek independence, defeat the Turkish and Egyptian fleets at Navarino | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Muhammad Ali, officially viceroy for the Turkish sultan, establishes his own ruling dynasty on the throne of Egypt | |
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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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| 1852 |
| | | France demands that Turkey should end Russia's exclusive control of the Christian Holy Places in the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1853 |
| | | Russia occupies two Ottoman principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, on the west coast of the Black Sea | |
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| 1853 |
| | | In the expectation of British and French support, the Ottoman sultan declares war on Russia - launching the Crimean War | |
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