Abdication of Ahmed III

Date: October 1, 1730 • Location: Athens, Greece

Ahmed III is forced to abdicate as the Ottoman sultan.

Ahmed III was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1703 to 1730. He was a son of sultan Mehmed IV and Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at Hacıoğlu Pazarcık, in Dobruja. He succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of his brother Mustafa II (1695–1703). Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha and the Sultan's daughter, Fatma Sultan directed the government from 1718 to 1730, a period referred to as the Tulip Era.