An Ottoman Sultan Was Dethroned TWICE in One Day in 1908! 👑⚡😱

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[00:00:00]Notes of history.

[00:00:02]A sultan experienced history's shortest reign ever.

[00:00:05]March 31st, 1909, Mehmed V woke up a sultan that morning.

[00:00:09]But before evening came, he was dethroned by a military coup. His reign lasted only 13 hours.

[00:00:15]After the uprising known as the 31 March incident, Parliament gathered in emergency session. They refused to approve Mehmed's ascension to the throne.

[00:00:23]That same afternoon, Sultan Reshad ascended to the throne. Mehmed V went down in history as the half-day sultan.

[00:00:31]This sultan, who doesn't even appear fully in history books, remains one of the Ottoman Empire's strangest stories.