Chronology

• 1807, May 29 — Selim III was deposed by the janissaries and incarceretaed in the Seraglio after the coup of 1807.
• 1808, July 28 — Selim III was murdered in the Seraglio.
• 1808, July 28 — Mahmud II ascended the throne after the coup of 1808.
• 1827, October 20 — The Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought on 20 October (O.S. 8 October) 1827, during the Greek War of Indepence 1821–1829), in Navarino Bay. Allied forces from Britain, France, and Russia decisively defeated Ottoman and Egyptian forces which were trying to suppress the Greeks, thereby making Greek independence much more likely. An Ottoman armada which, in addition to Imperial warships, included squadrons from the eyalets of Egypt and Tunis was destroyed by an Allied force of British, French and Russian warships.
• 1840, July 12 — Britain signed the London Agreement with the Ottomans, Russians, Austrians, and Prussians, promising to support the Sultan against Egypt in return for his agreement to close the Straits to warships in war and peace.
• 1841, February 13 — The Sultan issued a decree establishing Mehmed Ali Pasha as Governor of Egypt, with the position to remain  thereafter in the hands of his family.