Ottoman history in October

1 October

• 1918 · Damascus (City) — The Ottomans withdrew at the end of September 1918; on 1 October Australian units of the British army entered the city.

2 October

• 1923 · Istanbul (City) — The occupying forces left on 2 October 1923; on 6 October the Turkish army entered Istanbul.

3 October

• 1540 · Nafplio (City) — Under the Ottoman-Venetian treaty of 3 October 1540 the town and its fortress were ceded to the Ottomans.
• 1739 · Treaty of Belgrade (Treaty) — Habsburg Monarchy, Ottoman Empire

4 October

• 1727 · Treaty of Hamedan (Treaty)

7 October

• 1571 · Battle of Lepanto (Naval battle) — Holy League victory
• 1918 · Beirut (City) — The Ottomans withdrew; on 7 October 1918 French forces occupied the area.

9 October

• 1911 · Yemeni revolt (Imam Yahya) (Revolt) — Ahmed İzzet Pasha raised the siege of Sanaa; under the agreement of 13 October 1911 the Zaydi highlands, including Sanaa, were left to the …

12 October

• 1596 · Eger (City) — On Mehmed III's campaign, after three weeks of fighting, the garrison surrendered on 12 October 1596.

13 October

• 1789 · Smederevo (City) — In the last Austro-Turkish war the city surrendered on 13 October 1789.

14 October

• 1787 · Ochakiv (1787) (Naval battle)

15 October

• 1638 · Baghdad (City) — On Murad IV's campaign the city was retaken after a forty-day siege that began on 15 October 1638.

16 October

• 1529 · Siege of Vienna (1529) (Siege) — Habsburg victory

18 October

• 1672 · Treaty of Buchach (Treaty)
• 1912 · Treaty of Ouchy (Treaty)

20 October

• 1448 · Battle of Kosovo (1448) (Battle) — Ottoman victory
• 1827 · Battle of Navarino (Naval battle) — Allied victory
• 1921 · Treaty of Ankara (1921) (Treaty)

21 October

• 1603 · Tabriz (City) — The Ottomans held the city until 21 October 1603, when Shah Abbas retook it.

23 October

• 1912 · Battle of Kumanovo (Battle) — Serbian victory

24 October

• 1596 · Battle of Keresztes (Battle) — Ottoman victory
• 1912 · Skopje (City) — The Serbs occupied the city on 23–24 October 1912; the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest gave it to Serbia.
• 1912 · Kırklareli (City) — In the Balkan War the Bulgarians occupied the town on 24 October 1912; it was liberated on 21 July 1913.

26 October

• 1912 · Thessaloniki (City) — Governor Hasan Tahsin Pasha surrendered the city to the Greeks on 26 October 1912; the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest confirmed it.

27 October

• 1689 · Skopje (City) — Austrian general Piccolomini occupied the city on 25–27 October 1689 and it burned; the next year Koca Halil Pasha and the Crimean khan Selim Giray recovered it.

28 October

• 1918 · Kirkuk (City) — After British attacks began on 28 October 1918 the Ottoman troops evacuated the city and withdrew to Altınköprü.

30 October

• 1920 · Kars (City) — In Kâzım Karabekir's Eastern campaign the city was retaken on 30 October 1920; the treaties of Moscow and Kars (1921) confirmed it.

Dates are given as in the sources; dates before 1582 are mostly Julian. Event dates come from Wikipedia infoboxes, city events from the city articles of the TDV Encyclopedia of Islam.