The Byzantine-Ottoman wars were the long series of conflicts in which the Ottoman Turks, starting as a small frontier emirate in northwestern Anatolia, gradually conquered the Byzantine Empire. Early victories, such as at Bapheus in 1302, allowed the Ottomans to take Bursa and Nicaea. They crossed into Europe in the fourteenth century, captured Gallipoli and Adrianople, and reduced Byzantium to a small territory around Constantinople. The empire survived for a time thanks to Timur's defeat of the Ottomans in 1402, but Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453. The last Byzantine remnants, at Mistra and Trebizond, fell in the following decades.
Before and after
- from 18 January 1260 to 24 January 1260Siege of Aleppo
- from 1263 to 1478Grand Principality of Moscow
- from April 1264 to September 1266Mudéjar revolt of 1264–1266
- 1265Birth of Dante Alighieri
- from 1265 to 1479Byzantine–Ottoman wars
- from October 1265 to January 1266Conquest of Murcia
- 26 February 1266Battle of Benevento
- 4 April 1268Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1268
- from 14 May 1268 to 18 May 1268Siege of Antioch
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- 15 June 1215Magna Carta
- from 24 May 1337 to 9 October 1453Hundred Years' War
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