1281-1324
Osman gives his name to the Ottoman Turks
1326
Orkhan captures Bursa to
make it the capital
1361
Murad takes Adrianople
1453
Mehmed II takes
Constantinople and renames it Istanbul
1514
Selim I defeats the
Persians at Chalderan
1522
Suleiman I captures Rhodes
1526
Suleiman defeats the
Hungarians at Mohacs
1566
By Suleriman's death,
Africa, Syria and Egypt were under Ottoman control
1571
Turks are defeated at sea
at Lepanto
1645
Crete falls to the Ottomans
1687
Turks defeated at Mohacs
by Austrians
1695
Peter of Russia takes Azov
1736-9
Russia and Austrian invasions repulsed
1812
Russia takes the Dniester
and Prut Rivers
1831
Egypt revolts
1918
Ottomans are defeated in
WWI and become Turkey
