Editing Osman II (section)

===Great winter of 1621===
Following the murder of [[Şehzade Mehmed (son of Ahmed I)|Şehzade Mehmed]] on 12 January 1621, a heavy snow started falling in Istanbul. The people of Istanbul were drastically affected by the cold, which increased local violence on 24 January, more so than the palace murder. This is the biggest natural disaster that concerns the capital in Osman's four-year short reign. Bostanzade Yahya Efendi, one of those who lived through this cold, remarked that the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus were covered with ice from the end of January to beginning of February: "Between Üsküdar and Beşiktaş, the men walk around and go to Üsküdar.{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2015|p=213}} They came from Istanbul on foot. And the year became a gala (famine).{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2015|p=213}}

It was snowing for 15 days, that the frosts were frozen from the severity of the cold, but the river was open between Sarayburnu and Üsküdar.{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2015|p=213}} For this natural disaster, thirty thousand froze between Üsküdar and Istanbul from the cold," said Haşimi Çelebi, "The road became Üsküdar, the Mediterranean froze a thousand thirty".  As a result of the inconvenience of the Zahire ships, there was a complete famine in [[Istanbul]], and 75 [[dirhams]] of bread jumped to one [[akche]], and the oak of the meat to 15 akches.{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2015|p=213}}