Timeline Tuesday 27 April 1909

Events on Tuesday 27 April 1909 2

• 1909 Ottoman countercoup and deposition of Abdulhamid II Conservative uprising crushed, sultan removed from power On 13 April 1909 conservative soldiers and religious students revolted in Istanbul against the Young Turk government, an episode known as the 31 March Incident. Loyalist troops from Salonica suppressed the rising, and on 27 April 1909 the parliament deposed Sultan Abdulhamid II, replacing him with his brother Mehmed V. The event cemented the Committee of Union and Progress's control over the Ottoman Empire.
• 1909 Adana massacre Mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Cilicia Beginning on 14 April 1909, mobs and irregular troops killed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Armenians and Assyrians in and around Adana in the Ottoman Empire. The violence erupted amid political instability following the Young Turk countercoup and continued for roughly two weeks. It is regarded as a major precursor to the Armenian Genocide of 1915.