Died 1858-12-17.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death

Figure timeline
Mustafa Reşid Pasha was an Ottoman Turkish statesman and diplomat, known best as the chief architect behind the imperial Ottoman government reforms known as Tanzimat.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
politics · Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier (1800–1858) · politician · diplomat · writer · envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary · grand vizier · foreign minister · minister · also Mustafa Reşid Paşa, Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Mustafa Reşit Paşa, Koca Mustafa Reşit Pasha, Paşa
Born 13 March 1800 · Died 17 December 1858 · Q1330145
21 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
1 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
Died 1858-12-17.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1857–1858).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1856–1857).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
By Britain and France with very little consultation with Ottoman officials
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1854–1855).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
To restore the privileges inside the Ottoman Empire that Russia had enjoyed for centuries, used Reşid Pasha, who he thought to be favorable to Christians due to the Rose Garden Edict of 1839 but was currently out of offi
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1852–1852).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Established an Academy for Sciences, Endjümen-i Daniş, which had been modeled on a French academy
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1848–1852).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mustafa Reşid Pasha served as Grand Vizier from 1846 to 1852
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sublime Porte established several middle schools as well as a school for teachers in 1848
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reşid ordered for the establishment of an archival system in the Sublime Porte, called the Hazine-yi Evrak
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
During Reşid Pasha's first two terms as Grand Vizier, the Tanzimat Reforms were at their peak
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Created the Meclis-i Maarif, a committee of education that was designed to reduce the ulema's influence on education, essentially creating a secular system of learning
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1846–1848).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reşid Pasha renamed the new army, which had replaced the Janissaries after their fall in 1826, the Asakir-i Nizamiye-i Şihane
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
His son Abdulmecid rose to the throne with completely different ideals from his father; unlike his father, who focused on creating a stronger and more powerful throne, Abdulmecid wanted to enact liberal reforms to bring
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
As well as given the title of pasha, Reşid Pasha returned again to London in order to form a defensive alliance against Muhammad Ali and his Egyptian forces
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
With the task of regaining Algeria from the recent French occupation
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1800-03-13.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mustafa Reşid entered public service at an early age and rose rapidly, becoming ambassador to France (1834) and to the United Kingdom (1836), minister for foreign affairs (1837), and once again ambassador to the United K
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connections