c. 1000: Turks
arrive in Anatolia
from central Asia
1095: The beginning of the Crusades
c. 1300: the Ottoman
Empire begins
1324: Mansa Musa begins his pilgrimage to Mecca
1346: The Black Plague sweeps through Europe
1453: The Ottomans conquer the city of Constantinople
1520: Süleyman “the Magnificent” comes to power
1547: Ivan the Terrible becomes the first tsar of Russia
1557: The Mosque of Süleyman is completed
1578: Mihrimah dies and is buried in Süleyman’s tomb
1776: The US Declaration of Independence is signed
1826: The Janissary corps is disbanded
1865: The end of the American Civil War
1876:
The Ottomans adopt their
first constitution
1922: The Ottoman Empire officially ends
1923: Turkey is officially declared a republic
1934: Women in Turkey gain the right to vote