26 Centuries of Gold
1604 OTTOMANS Ahmed II

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Ahmed I (احمد اول‎ Aḥmed-i evvel) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the end of the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth Ottoman rulers would no longer execute their brothers upon accession to the throne. He also built the Blue Mosque, which is still in business today. The sultan attended the breaking of the ground with a golden pickaxe.

Ahmed I renewed trade treaties with England, France and Venice. In July 1612, the first ever trade treaty with the Dutch Republic was signed. See our 1612 Netherlands ducat of Utrecht. He expanded the capitulations given to France, specifying that merchants from Spain, Ragusa, Genoa, Ancona and Florence could trade under the French flag.