February 25 1643

Ahmed II Sultan of Turkey was Born

Ahmed II Khan Ghazi was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 - 1695. Ahmed was born at Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I (1640 - 1648) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II in 1691.
Ahmed's best known act was to confirm Mustafa Koprulu as grand vizier. Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary. Durning the four years of his reign disaster followed on disaster, and in 1695 Ahmed II died at Edirne Palace, warn out by disease and sorrow.