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Events on Monday 15 May 1876 1
1876Suppression of the Bulgarian April UprisingOttoman irregulars crush a Bulgarian revoltAn uprising by Bulgarian nationalists against Ottoman rule that began on April 20, 1876, was crushed within weeks by irregular Ottoman troops, with massacres at Batak and other villages killing thousands of civilians. News of the atrocities, publicized in Britain by William Gladstone, turned European opinion against the Ottoman Empire and helped trigger the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.