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1299 - 1326Reign of Osman I.
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1326Prusa (Bursa) falls to Ottoman control shortly after Osman's death; it becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
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1326 - 1362Reign of Orhan, as the second sovereign of the Ottoman Empire.
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1361Adrianople (Edirne) falls to Prince Murad, the son of Orhan, later Murad I.
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1362 - 1389Murad I rules as the sovereign of the Ottoman Empire and brands himself as a sultan.
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1389Murad I defeats a European coalition army led by the Serbians at the Battle of Kosovo but dies at the climax of battle.
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1389 - 1402Bayezid I rules as the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
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25 Sep 1396The Battle of Nicopolis, aka the Nicopolis Crusade, where a western Christian army is defeated by the Ottoman Turks.
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1402Bayezid I is defeated by the forces of Timur at the Battle of Ankara and is captured.
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1402 - 1413Ottoman Interregnum; Mehmed I emerges victorious.
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1421 - 1451Reign of Murad II.
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10 Nov 1444Murad II resumes defeats Crusader forces at the Battle of Varna.
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1451 - 1481Mehmed II rules as the Sultan.
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29 May 1453Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II sacks Constantinople.
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1475 - 1783Crimean Tatars serve as vassals to the Ottomans.
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1481 - 1512Reign of Bayezid II.
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1512Selim I deposes his father Bayezid II.
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1512 - 1520Reign of Selim I; the Ottoman Empire doubles in size.
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1514Battle of Chaldiron; Selim I defeats the army of the Safavid Shah Ismail I.
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1516 - 1517Selim I conquers the Mamluk Sultanate, taking Syria, Palestine, Hejaz and Egypt. Ottoman Sultanate declares itself as a Caliphate.
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1520 - 1566Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent.
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1521Belgrade falls to the Ottomans.
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1523Suleiman conquers Rhodes.
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1526Battle of Mohacs; Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian field army under Louis II.
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1529Ottomans fail to take Vienna.
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1566Suleiman I dies while campaigning in Hungary.
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1566 - 1574Reign of Selim II.
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1570Ottomans conquer Cyprus.
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1571Battle of Lepanto; the Ottoman navy is defeated by the Holy League.
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1596 - 1609Celali revolts throughout Anatolia.
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1669Crete falls to the Ottoman Sultanate.
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1683Ottomans fail to take Vienna for the second time.
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1699Treaty of Karlowitz.
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1789 - 1807Reign of Selim III.
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1826Conservative Jannisary corps are disbanded.
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1839 - 1876Tanzimat reforms are introduced.
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1876 - 1878First Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire.
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1876 - 1909Reign of Abdul Hamid II.
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1908 - 1920Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire.
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1909Abdul Hamid II is deposed by the Young Turks party.
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1914 - 1923Armenian population of Anatolia is subjected to genocide.
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1918The Ottoman Empire is defeated in World War I.
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1922 - 1924Abdulmejid II serves the office of the Caliphate only, as a symbolic figure.
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1923The Republic of Turkey declares independence under Mustafa Kemal.
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1924Mustafa Kemal abolishes the institute of Caliphate.