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Events relating to the turks
Skanderbeg dies and Albania becomes fully absorbed into the Ottoman empire
With Constantinople in Turkish hands, Moscow begins to see itself as the centre of Orthodox Christianity - or the third Rome
Bayazid II, the Turkish sultan, makes a special point of welcoming in Istanbul the Jews expelled from Spain
The Ottoman sultan, Selim I, captures Cairo and ends Mameluke rule in the middle east
The last Abbasid caliph, captured by the Ottoman Turks, is taken as a prisoner to Istanbul - ending the authentic line of 'successors' to Muhammad
From Bosnia to Egypt and Arabia, the Ottoman Turks now rule the largest Muslim empire since the early caliphate - and will frequently use the title of caliph to assert their authority within Sunni Islam
The Turkish sultan, Suleiman I, marches into the kingdom of Hungary and captures Belgrade
The Hungarian king, Louis II, is killed in battle at Mohacs, where the Turks win a crushing victory
Suleiman I takes Buda (now Budapest), and by 1547 the Turks occupy almost the whole of Hungary
Hungary is divided, by agreement between the Turkish sultan Suleiman I and the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I
Spanish and Venetian galleys defeat the Turks in the battle of Lepanto
Venice cedes the island of Cyprus to the Turks, in spite of the Christian victory at Lepanto two years earlier
The Ottoman empire finally asserts control over the north African coast, in the footsteps of Muslim pirates
The emperor, Leopold I, and his court abandon Vienna on the approach of a Turkish army
The Turks are driven from the walls of Vienna by the Polish king John Sobieski, in what proves a historic turning point
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, observing the Turkish practice of inoculation against smallpox, submits her infant son to the treatment
In the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji, ending the recent Russo-Turkish war, the Ottoman empire cedes the Crimea to Russia
The treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji grants Russia special rights in relation to the Christian Holy Places under Ottoman control
Napoleon leads a costly, unsuccessful and plague-ridden expedition against the Turkish garrisons in Syria
Karageorge captures Belgrade and wins a limited independence for Serbia within the Ottoman empire
The Turks recapture Belgrade and sell thousands of Serb women and children into slavery
An uprising in Greece against Turkish rule is followed by the massacre of several thousand Muslims
The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion
Britain, France and Russia, supporting Greek independence, defeat the Turkish and Egyptian fleets at Navarino
Muhammad Ali, officially viceroy for the Turkish sultan, establishes his own ruling dynasty on the throne of Egypt
