{"slug": "janissary", "label": "Janissary", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130263", "qid": "Q130263", "description": "a member of an elite Ottoman military unit (active 1363–1826)", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1446, 1688], "span_label": ["1446 CE", "1688 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Janissaries"], "related": [{"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sultan", "label": "Sultan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "grand-vizier-of-the-ottoman-empire", "label": "Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "october", "label": "October", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thebes-greece", "label": "Thebes, Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mehmed-ii", "label": "Mehmed II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "murad-ii", "label": "Murad II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantine-xi-palaiologos", "label": "Constantine XI Palaiologos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "murad-iv", "label": "Murad IV", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "suleiman-the-magnificent", "label": "Suleiman the Magnificent", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "murad-iii", "label": "Murad III", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1446, "year_label": "1446 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October", "text": "October – Murad II, who recently became the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire after his son Mehmed II was forced by the Janissaries to abdicate, invades Attica, forcing Constantine XI to return Thebes to the duchy of Athens, and remove the tribute imposed in 1444. Murad II imposes his own tribute.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360566332#October–December", "title": "1446", "revid": 1360566332, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1541, "year_label": "1541 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 21", "text": "August 21 – The Janissaries of Suleiman the Magnificent besiege Buda, wounding Wilhelm von Roggendorf, who dies from his wounds on the way to Komárno a few days later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361813253#July–September", "title": "1541", "revid": 1361813253, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1591, "year_label": "1591 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – Serdar Ferhad Pasha is appointed the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Murad III, replacing Koca Sinan Pasha following a revolt of the Janissaries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358075583#July–September", "title": "1591", "revid": 1358075583, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1622, "year_label": "1622 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – Ottoman Sultan Osman II is strangled by rebelling Janissaries, who revolted when they heard rumours that Osman II was planning to move against them.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366857889#April–June", "title": "1622", "revid": 1366857889, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1638, "year_label": "1638 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 27", "text": "June 27 – Patriarch Cyril of Constantinople is deposed for high treason, strangled and thrown into the sea by Janissaries, on Ottoman Sultan Murad IV's command.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352457236#April–June", "title": "1638", "revid": 1352457236, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1688, "year_label": "1688 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 23", "text": "February 23 – Abaza Siyavuş Pasha, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, is assassinated by the Janissaries, the Turkish troops who had placed him in power in September, after the new Sultan fails to make payment of an expected bonus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373154069#January–March", "title": "1688", "revid": 1373154069, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}