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Recent Event Highlights: Suleiman the Magnificant becomes Sultan, Ottomans Capture Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem, Mehmed 2 becomes Sultan, Saladin capture Jerusalem for Muslims, Crusaders capture Jerusalem, Muslims captured Jerusalem, and 13 more...

Created by dicksonc on Apr 20, 2011

Last updated: 04/20/11 at 11:03 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Apr 20, 2011 10:30 AM

• Battle of Lepanto
  1571

  Spanish defeated Ottomans in a sea battle but Ottomans retaliate by sacking Cyprus.

• Suleiman the Magnificant becomes Sultan
  1520

  Extended Ottoman power to the western Medditeranean.

• Ottomans Capture Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem
  1517

  Selim 1 captures them along with Mesopotamia, Cairo, Syria, Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, and Moracco.

• Fall of Constantinople
  1453

  80,000 Ottomans defeat 7,000 Byzantines and rename it Istanbul.

• Mehmed 2 becomes Sultan
  1451

  HIs goal was to capture Constantinople.

• Serbs lose Battle of Kosovo
  1389

  The Turks' Christian forces defeat the Balkans.

• Ottoman Empire established
  1299

  Created after the fall of the Byzantine Empire.

• Saladin capture Jerusalem for Muslims
  1187

  End Crusader occupation and leads to third Crusade.

• Crusaders capture Jerusalem
  1099

  Frankish crusaders capture Jerusalem and slaughter all inhabitants.

• 1st Crusade
  1095

  crusaders from the west launched an attack to regain holyland.

• Battle of Manzikert
  1071

  Byzantines, led by emporer Romanus, defeated Seljuk Turks, led by Sultan Alp-Arstan, at Manzikert in Armenia.

• Muslims captured Jerusalem
  638 AD

  Caliph Omar captured Jerusalem and declared jews and christians to be protected peoples.

• Abu Bakr becomes 1st caliph
  632 AD

  Abu Bakr becomes the 1st religious leader of Islam.

• Muhammad enters Medina
  622 AD

• Muhammad recieve 1st revelation
  610 AD

• Muhammad Born
  570 AD

• Council of NIcaea
  325 AD

  Christian doctrine ratified.

• Christ crucified
  33 AD

  Christ was crucified

• Moses gets 10 commandments
  1440 BC

  Moses recieves 10 commandments from God

• Abraham born
  2100 BC

  Abraham was born in Ur