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Timeline of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is a time line of events during the lifespan of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey....

. The time line also includes the background events starting with the Sultan Abdulhamid II.

Legend
Military Career	Leadership during Independence Turkish War of Independence The Turkish War of Independence was a war of independence waged by Turkish nationalists against the Allies, after the country was partitioned by the Allies following the Ottoman Empire's defeat in World War I...	Presidency	Personal Life Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's personal life The achievements, personality, and personal life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk born to Ali Rıza Efendi and Zübeyde Hanım have been the subject of numerous studies. According to the Turkish historian Kemal H. Karpat, Atatürk's recent bibliography included 7,010 different sources. Atatürk's personal life...

1876	1 September	Accession of Abdulhamid II
1876	23 December	Promulgation of Ottoman constitution Kanûn-ı Esâsî Kanûn-i Esâsî The Ottoman constitution of 1876 was the first constitution of the Ottoman Empire. Written by members of the Young Ottomans, particularly Midhat Pasha, during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II , the constitution was only in effect for two years, from 1876 to 1878.A large part of the reason for the...
1877	19 March	Opening of first Ottoman parliament
1877	24 April	Russian troops enter Ottoman territory
1878	14 February	Ottoman parliament dissolved
	3 March	Russian victory confirmed by Treaty of San Stefano Treaty of San Stefano The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78... (Ayastefanos)
	13 July	Treaty of Berlin replaces Treaty of San Stefano
1880	Winter	Mustafa (Kemal Atatürk) born in Salonica
1881	24 May	New border with Greece. Thessaly ceded to Greece
1888		All Riza, Mustafa’s father, dies
1893		Mustafa enters military preparatory school in Salonica
1897		Greco-Ottoman War Greco-Turkish War (1897) The Greco-Turkish War of 1897, also called the Thirty Days' War and known as the Black '97 in Greece, was a war fought between the Kingdom of Greece and Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause was the question over the status of the Ottoman province of Crete, whose Greek majority long desired union...
1899	13 March	Mustafa Kemal enters infantry class of War College in Istanbul
1902	10 February	Commissioned Second Lieutenant, and enters Staff College
1903		Promoted First Lieutenant
1905	11 January	Passes out as Staff Captain and is posted for Fifth Army in Syria Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.... ; revives a secret opposition group in Damascus Damascus Damascus , commonly known in Syria as Al Sham , and as the City of Jasmine , is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo, both are part of the country's 14 governorates. In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major...
1906		Makes clandestine trip to Salonica
1907	20 June	Promoted Adjutant-Major
1907	13 October	Posted to Third Army Third Army (Ottoman Empire) The Ottoman Third Army was originally established in the Balkans and later defended the northern and eastern parts of the Ottoman Empire. Its initial headquarters was at Salonica. With the onset of World War I, it moved to Erzurum Fortress. The headquarters was moved to Susehir after the Battle... headquarters in Salonica
1908	22 June	Appointed to Inspectorate of Eastern Railways in Rumelia Rumelia Rumelia was an historical region comprising the territories of the Ottoman Empire in Europe...
	24 July	Young Turk Revolution Young Turk Revolution The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 reversed the suspension of the Ottoman parliament by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, marking the onset of the Second Constitutional Era...
	September	Mustafa Kemal travels to Tripoli Tripoli Tripoli is the capital and largest city in Libya. It is also known as Western Tripoli , to distinguish it from Tripoli, Lebanon. It is affectionately called The Mermaid of the Mediterranean , describing its turquoise waters and its whitewashed buildings. Tripoli is a Greek name that means "Three... and Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi is the second largest city in Libya, the main city of the Cyrenaica region , and the former provisional capital of the National Transitional Council. The wider metropolitan area is also a district of Libya... to re-establish CUP CUP The acronym CUP may refer to:* California University of Pennsylvania* Cambridge University Press* Canadian University Press, the press association of Canadian student newspapers* Candidatures d'Unitat Popular, a Catalan nationalist movement...
1909	13 January	Appointed chief of staff of i7th reserve division in Salonica
	13 April	Travels with his division to the outskirts of Istanbul; 31 March Incident 31 March Incident The 31 March Incident was a 1909 rebellion of reactionaries in İstanbul against the restoration of constitutional monarchy that had taken place in 1908. It took place on 13 April 1909...
	27 April	Abdülhamit II deposed and succeeded by Mehmet V; 31 March Incident 31 March Incident The 31 March Incident was a 1909 rebellion of reactionaries in İstanbul against the restoration of constitutional monarchy that had taken place in 1908. It took place on 13 April 1909...
1910	September	Visits French army manoeuvres in Picardy Picardy This article is about the historical French province. For other uses, see Picardy .Picardy is a historical province of France, in the north of France... ;
1910	September	Takes part in suppress of Albanian revolt
1911	15 January	Appointed to 5th army corps headquarters
	January	Commander 38th infantry regiment
	13 September	Posted to general staff in Istanbul;
	September	Volunteers for service against the Italians in Cyrenaica Cyrenaica Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya.Also known as Pentapolis in antiquity, it was part of the Creta et Cyrenaica province during the Roman period, later divided in Libia Pentapolis and Libia Sicca...
	27 November	Promoted Major
1912	11 March	Appointed commander of Derne sector in Cyrenaica; Italo-Turkish War Italo-Turkish War The Italo-Turkish or Turco-Italian War was fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Italy from September 29, 1911 to October 18, 1912.As a result of this conflict, Italy was awarded the Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania, Fezzan, and...
	8 October	First Balkan War First Balkan War The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success...
	8 October	Salonica falls to the Greeks
	24 October	Mustafa Kemal leaves Cyrenaica and returns to Istanbul
	25 November	Appointed director of operations of Straits Composite Force
1913	23 January	CUP seizes power Coup of 1913 Coup of 1913 The Coup of 1913 in the Ottoman Empire resulted in the grand vizier Kamil Pasha being driven from power and the replacement of Minister of War Nazim Pasha by İsmail Enver...
	24 March	Edirne Edirne Edirne is a city in Eastern Thrace, the northwestern part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. Edirne served as the capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1365 to 1453, before Constantinople became the empire's new capital. At present, Edirne is the capital of the Edirne... falls to the Bulgarians
	29 June	Second Balkan War Second Balkan War The Second Balkan War was a conflict which broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece, on 29 June 1913. Bulgaria had a prewar agreement about the division of region of Macedonia...
	21 July	Ottomans reoccupy Edirne
	29 September	Treaty of Istanbul fixes Turkish-Bulgarian frontier
	27 October	Mustafa Kemal appointed military attaché in Sofia Sofia Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
1914	1 March	Mustafa Kemal promoted Lieutenant-Colonel
	28 July	Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... declares war on Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans... ; beginning of First World War
	2 August	Ottoman Empire signs Ottoman-German Alliance Ottoman-German Alliance The Ottoman–German Alliance was established between the Ottoman Empire and the German Empire on August 2, 1914. It was this binding alliance that ultimately led the Ottoman Empire to enter the First World War on the side of the Central Powers.... .
	29 October	After Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau The pursuit of Goeben and Breslau was a naval action that occurred in the Mediterranean Sea at the outbreak of the First World War when elements of the British Mediterranean Fleet attempted to intercept the German Mittelmeerdivision comprising the battlecruiser and the light cruiser... Ottoman navy under German command shells Russian targets
	2 November	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... declares war on Ottoman Empire
	5 November	Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it.... declares war on Ottoman Empire
	5 November	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... declares war on Ottoman Empire
1915	20 January	Mustafa Kemal leaves Sofia to take up appointment as commander of 19th division for service in Battle of Gallipoli Battle of Gallipoli The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign or the Battle of Gallipoli, took place at the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, during the First World War...
	21 March	Allied navy fails to force the straits at Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign The naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War were mainly carried out by the Royal Navy with substantial support from the French and minor contributions from Russia and Australia. The Dardanelles Campaign began as a purely naval operation...
	27 April	Allied troops Landing at Anzac Cove Landing at Anzac Cove The landing at Anzac Cove was part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian and New Zealand forces on 25 April 1915. The landing, north of Gaba Tepe on the Aegean coast of the Peninsula, was made by soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and was the first... faced with Mustafa
	6 August	Final attempts made by the British at Battle of Sari Bair Battle of Sari Bair The Battle of Sari Bair , also known as the August Offensive, was the final attempt made by the British in August 1915 to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman Empire during First World War.The Battle of Gallipoli had raged on two fronts, Anzac and Helles, for three months since... faced with Mustafa
1919	April 30	Appointed the Inspector of the Ninth Army Troops.
	May 19	Kemal lands in Samsun.
	July 8	Mustafa Kemal resigns from the post of Inspector of Third Army and from the army.
	July 23	Kemal elected Chairman of Erzurum Congress.
1920	April 23	Kemal opens the Grand National Assembly (BMM) in Ankara.
1920	May 11	Kemal is condemned to death by the government in Istanbul.
1921	August 5	Appointed Commander - in - Chief by the Grand National Assembly.
	August 23	The battle of Sakarya begins with Turkish troops led by Mustafa Kemal.
	September 19	Kemal received the rank of Marshal and the title Gazi (Victor).
1922	August 26	Gazi Mustafa Kemal begins to lead Great Offensive from the hill of Kocatepe.
	August 30	Mustafa Kemal at the Battle of Dumlupınar.
	September 10	Enters Izmir.
	November 1	The Grand National Assembly abolish the Sultanate.
1923	January 14	Zubeyde Hanim dies in Izmir.
	October 29	Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey
	October 29	Elected first president.
1928	August 9	Speaks at Sarayburnu on the new Turkish Alphabet.
1932	July 12	Founds the Turkish Linguistic Society.
1934	June 16	The Grand National Assembly passes a law granting the surname "ATATÜRK".
1938	November 10	Passes away.

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