the terms of the truce, the Pasha in charge of the fortress agreed to remove his police from the town and return them into the fortress, and the Serbian prime minister, Ilija Garašanin, in turn, guaranteed their safety during the move. Bombardment On 17 June, the Pasha summoned the consuls to the fortress and while they were still underway, 56 fortress cannons began to shell the Serb town (varoš) of Belgrade, in an event known in historiography as the bombardment of Belgrade (). The attack began 9 o'clock, the time when two Serb victims of the past incident had a ceremonial funeral, lasted until the afternoon and did a great deal of material damage. About 50 civilians and soldiers died, about 20 houses were burnt down, and another 357 damaged. The cause of the bombing is unknown. Some sources suggested that the bombardment was ordered by the Pasha, triggered by Serbians firing muskets at the fortress. British Longworth, on the other hand, concluded that the bombardment was "the mere result of panic and false alarm". It is concluded that the dissatisfied Turkish soldiers pushed Ašir-paša, the Ottoman commander, to bomb the town. The bombing ended when the British Consul-General Longworth intervened. Great Powers intervention Prince Mihailo Obrenović III, who was in Šabac at the time, returned to Belgrade immediately. During July of the same year, in Kanlıca, near Constantinople, the negotiations about the independence of Serbia started, with the participation of France, England, Russia and Austria. It was decided that the Turkish population must leave Serbia and, during the following year, more than eight thousand Turks were displaced. The Porte agreed to entrust some of the towns to Mihailo: first Belgrade, then Kladovo, Smederevo and Šabac, and then many more. In 1867, Duke Mihailo obtained the keys of the Belgrade fortress, and the ceremony was held on 6 April on the Kalemegdan. Aftermath and legacy Police Day on 12 June commemorates the actions of the Gendarmery during the incident, serving as the official professional holiday of the Police of Serbia and Interior Ministry. References Sources Jovan S.Dajković, Belgrade and the Čukur Fountain incident, GMGB, book IV, Belgrade 1957, 313–326. Further reading Д. Тодоровић, Шта је утицало на Србију да после бомбардовања Београда 1862 не одлучи на рат против Турске, Архивски алманах 4 (1962) June 1862 events 1862 in Serbia 19th century in Belgrade Ottoman Serbia Principality of Serbia 1862 riots