@BeyondET I just finished reading your timeline on page 1 and it was excellent! It indeed is a very good brief synopsis of that period of history as I have researched. I would love to see you continue it in the vein of Western and Islamic Empires through the next centuries from where you left off with the Crusades maybe up to the Battle of Vienna or beyond.
Continued from my other post now it's 1299 the beginning of the Ottoman Empire.
Rise of the Ottoman Empire (1299–1453)
1299 The reign of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire, began.
1302 Battle of Bapheus. The first war between the Ottomans and Byzantines.
1326 Orhan Gazi's accession to the throne.
1326 Siege of Bursa. The Ottomans conquered Bursa. After the conquest the city was the capital.
1329 Battle of Pelekanon. The Ottomans completed their conquest of Bythinia and the north-western corner of Anatolia.
1328-31 Siege of Nicaea. The Ottomans conquered Nicaea.
1362 Orhan Gazi's to death. Murad I accession to the throne.
1364 Battle of Sırp Sındığı. Bulgaria had to pay taxes, and the decline of the Bulgarian Empire.
1369 Edirne was conquered. From 1413 to 1458 the city was the capital.
1371 Battle of Maritsa. Serbia was forced to declare loyalty to the Ottoman Empire.
1385-87 Battle of Pločnik..
1389 Battle of Kosovo. Most of Serbia is conquered. Murad I lost his life in this war. Bayezid I accession to the throne.
1396 Battle of Nicopolis. Bulgaria was conquered.
1399 The Bursa great mosque was built by the Bayezid I. The first to be built by the Ottoman.
1402 Battle of Ankara. Ottomans entered the short-term period of stagnation. The battle is also significant in Ottoman history as being the only time a Sultan has been captured in person.
1402-13 Ottoman Interregnum or Ottoman Civil War. This process Bayezid I 1402 at the Battle of Ankara, Turco-Mongol warlord Tamerlane defeated as a result of falling prisoner appeared. Crumbling Ottoman unity, the year in 1413 was restored by Mehmed I.
1413 Battle of Çamurlu. Mehmed I accession to the throne.
1422 Siege of Constantinople. The first comprehensive siege of Constantinople by the Ottomans.
1427-28 Germiyanids was conquered by the Ottomans.
1432 Mehmed the Conqueror's birth.
1443-44 Crusade of Varna.
1444 Battle of Varna. Mora and Bulgaria was connected to the Ottoman State. It began to increase the authority of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans.
1448 Battle of Kosovo II. Balkans fully entered the Ottoman domination.