His Imperial Majesty, The Sultan Abdlhamid II, Emperor of the Ottomans, Caliph of the Faithful, (AKA: Abdul Hamid II or Abd Al-Hamid II Khan Ghazi), (Ottoman Turkish: Abd'l-amd-i sn, Turkish: kinci Abdlhamit) (21/22 September 1842 - 10 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire. H.B. H.B. Abdlhamid commissioned thousands of photographs of his empire. The first part is based on the information provided by historians such as Kemal Paazade, Matraq Nasuh, Celalzade Mustafa elebi, Ramazanzade Kk Nianc Mehmed Paa, Hocazade Mehmed Efendi, and Mehmed Mecdi, as well as on the account of Hasan Beg, minister of foreign affairs (reislkttab) and H.B.s father. The Sultan presented large gift albums of photographs to various governments and heads of state, including the United States (William Allen, "The Abdul Hamid II Collection," History of Photography eight (1984): 11945.) The perfect way to take revenge was to ruin the marriage of Sultan favourite's daughter. birth: 22 September 1840, Ortaky, Beikta, Istanbul, Istanbul Eyalet, Ottoman Empire, birth: 31 May 1840, Istanbul, Istanbul Eyalet, Ottoman Empire, birth: 11 October 1840, Istanbul, Istanbul Eyalet, Ottoman Empire, birth: 1 November 1840, Istanbul, Istanbul Eyalet, Ottoman Empire, birth: 22 February 1841, Istanbul, Istanbul Eyalet, Ottoman Empire, birth: 14 October 1841, Istanbul, Istanbul Eyalet, Ottoman Empire. Abdul Hamid II agreed to the Kaiser's demands and sent Enver Pasha to China in 1901, but the rebellion was over by that time. Curiously, a marriage between her father and Mehmed Cahid's mother had been considered in the past. In Leila Tarazi Fawaz and C. A. Bayly (eds.). On 23 December 1876, under the shadow of the 1875 insurrection in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the war with Serbia and Montenegro and the feeling aroused throughout Europe by the cruelty used in stamping out the Bulgarian rebellion, he promulgated the constitution and its parliament.[1]. Biographies.net. He did not plan and express any goal in his accession speech, however he worked with the Young Ottomans to realize some form of constitutional arrangements[8] This new form in its theoretical space could help to realize a liberal transition with Islamic arguments, which could balance the Tanzimat's imitation of western norms. The government, restored by soldiers from Salonica, decided on Abdlhamid's deposition, and on 27 April his brother Reshad Efendi was proclaimed as Sultan Mehmed V. The Sultan's countercoup, which had appealed to conservative Islamists in the context of the Young Turks' liberal reforms, resulted in the massacre of tens of thousands of Christian Armenians in the Adana province.[15]. birth: 30 July 1856, Beikta, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. In early 1897 a Greek expedition sailed to Crete to overthrow Ottoman rule in the island.