Ottoman Empire Timeline

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1299 CE - 1326 CE

Reign of Osman I.
1326 CE

Prusa (Bursa) falls to Ottoman control shortly after Osman's death; it becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1326 CE - 1362 CE

Reign of Orhan, as the second sovereign of the Ottoman Empire.
1361 CE

Adrianople (Edirne) falls to Prince Murad, the son of Orhan, later Murad I.
1362 CE - 1389 CE

Murad I rules as the sovereign of the Ottoman Empire and brands himself as a sultan.
1389 CE

Murad I defeats a European coalition army led by the Serbians at the Battle of Kosovo but dies at the climax of battle.
1389 CE - 1402 CE

Bayezid I rules as the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
25 Sep 1396 CE

The Battle of Nicopolis, aka the Nicopolis Crusade, where a western Christian army is defeated by the Ottoman Turks.
1402 CE

Bayezid I is defeated by the forces of Timur at the Battle of Ankara and is captured.
1402 CE - 1413 CE

Ottoman Interregnum; Mehmed I emerges victorious.
1421 CE - 1451 CE

Reign of Murad II.
10 Nov 1444 CE

Murad II resumes defeats Crusader forces at the Battle of Varna.
1451 CE - 1481 CE

Mehmed II rules as the Sultan.
29 May 1453 CE

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II sacks Constantinople.
1475 CE - 1783 CE

Crimean Tatars serve as vassals to the Ottomans.
1481 CE - 1512 CE

Reign of Bayezid II.
1512 CE

Selim I deposes his father Bayezid II.
1512 CE - 1520 CE

Reign of Selim I; the Ottoman Empire doubles in size.
1514 CE

Battle of Chaldiron; Selim I defeats the army of the Safavid Shah Ismail I.
1516 CE - 1517 CE

Selim I conquers the Mamluk Sultanate, taking Syria, Palestine, Hejaz and Egypt. Ottoman Sultanate declares itself as a Caliphate.
1520 CE - 1566 CE

Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent.
1521 CE

Belgrade falls to the Ottomans.
1523 CE

Suleiman conquers Rhodes.
1526 CE

Battle of Mohacs; Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian field army under Louis II.
1529 CE

Ottomans fail to take Vienna.
1566 CE

Suleiman I dies while campaigning in Hungary.
1566 CE - 1574 CE

Reign of Selim II.
1570 CE

Ottomans conquer Cyprus.
1571 CE

Battle of Lepanto; the Ottoman navy is defeated by the Holy League.
1596 CE - 1609 CE

Celali revolts throughout Anatolia.
1669 CE

Crete falls to the Ottoman Sultanate.
1683 CE

Ottomans fail to take Vienna for the second time.
1699 CE

Treaty of Karlowitz.
1789 CE - 1807 CE

Reign of Selim III.
17 May 1805 CE - 2 Mar 1848 CE

Reign of Muhammad Ali of Egypt.
1826 CE

Conservative Jannisary corps are disbanded.
1839 CE - 1876 CE

Tanzimat reforms are introduced.
1876 CE - 1878 CE

First Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire.
1876 CE - 1909 CE

Reign of Abdul Hamid II.
1908 CE - 1920 CE

Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire.
1909 CE

Abdul Hamid II is deposed by the Young Turks party.
1914 CE - 1923 CE

Armenian population of Anatolia is subjected to genocide.
1918 CE

The Ottoman Empire is defeated in World War I.
1922 CE - 1924 CE

Abdulmejid II serves the office of the Caliphate only, as a symbolic figure.
1923 CE

The Republic of Turkey declares independence under Mustafa Kemal.
1924 CE

Mustafa Kemal abolishes the institute of Caliphate.