Timeline Monday 3 March 1924

Events on Monday 3 March 1924 3

• 1922 – 1924 Abolition of the Sultanate and Caliphate The Grand National Assembly abolishes the Ottoman Sultanate on 1 November 1922; Mehmed VI flees on a British warship on 17 November. His cousin Abdülmecid II becomes the last Caliph -- a purely religious role -- until the caliphate too is abolished on 3 March 1924. The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed on 29 October 1923 with Mustafa Kemal as its first president and Ankara as its capital. The abolition of the caliphate shocks the Muslim world; proposals for a new caliphate (in Egypt, India, Arabia) come to nothing. The 623-year Ottoman dynasty and the 1,300-year institution of the caliphate both end within 16 months.
• 1924 – 2025 Murayama Tomiichi (1924-2025) Died 17 October 2025, aged 101 Japanese politician who from 1994 to 1996 was the first Socialist prime minister of Japan since 1948.
• 1924 Ottoman Caliphate abolished Turkish Grand National Assembly ends the centuries-old Islamic caliphate On 3 March 1924 the Grand National Assembly of Turkey abolished the Ottoman Caliphate as part of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's secularizing reforms. The last caliph, Abdulmejid II, was exiled, ending an institution that had claimed religious authority over Sunni Islam for centuries.