Timeline | Before 1800 to After 1930 | TüRKIYE | MUSIC, LITERATURE, DANCE AND FASHION
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1831
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
11 November: The first newspaper in Ottoman Turkish, Takvim-I Vekayi, published by the state.
1840
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
3 July: The first newspaper in Ottoman Turkish published by a private individual, Cerîde-I Havâdis (Journal of News), begins to appear in İstanbul as a weekly, published by an English journalist, William Churchill.
1855
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
Ahmed Cevdet Paşa, historian, jurist and conservative Tanzimat reformer, completes the first volumes of Târih-I Cevdet (History of Cevdet), which deals with Ottoman history, 1774–1826.
1859
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
İbrahim Şinasi completes his stage comedy Şâir Evlenmesi (Marriage of a Poet), the first theatre play written by an Ottoman Turkish author.
1860
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
October: Journalists İbrahim Şinasi and Agah Efendi publish the first private Muslim newspaper Tercümân-ı Ahvâl (Interpreter of Events).
1868
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
29 June: Namık Kemal and Ziya Paşa publish oppositional weekly newspaper in London, where they had fled to.
1870
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
Ahmed Mithat Efendi (1844–1912), who introduced the novel from the Ottoman community begins to publish Letaif-I Rivayat (Finest Stories), which includes long stories and novellas.
1875
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
Publication of the novel Taaşşuk-u Talat ve Fitnat (The Romance of Talat and Fitnat) by Şemseddin Sami (1850–1904). This book is considered to be the starting point of the Ottoman novel.
1891
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
Ahmed Vefik Paşa dies. Besides his administrative positions, he is regarded as a precursor of Turkish cultural nationalism and remembered also for contributing to the development of Western theatre in the empire by translating French plays.
1892
Türkiye | Music, Literature, Dance And Fashion
Fatma Âliye (1862–1939), female novelist and publisher, publishes Muhâdarât (Reminiscence). Her feminist attitude was apparent in her rejection of marriage for economic reasons, believing in the need for women to join the workforce.
