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Mar 30, 1432
the birth of Mehmet ll
He was bornin Edirne, then the capital city of the Ottoman state, His father was Sultan Murad II and his mother Valide Sultan Hüma Hatun, He came to the throne at 12-year-old. -
Aug 26, 1444
Sultan Mehmet
He was 12 years old when he become sultan -
Oct 25, 1451
His plans
When Mehmed II ascended the throne in 1451 he devoted himself to strengthening the Ottoman Navy, and in the same year made preparations for the taking of Constantinople -
Jan 27, 1453
It begins
In 1453 Mehmed commenced the siege of Constantinople with an army between 80,000 to 200,000 troops and a navy of 320 vessels -
Apr 20, 1453
What an Idea
On 22 April, Mehmed transported his lighter warships overland, around the Genoese colony of Galata and into the Golden Horn's northern shore; eighty galleys were transported from the Bosphorus after paving a little over one-mile route with wood -
May 29, 1453
He Won
Constantinople fell, following a fifty-seven day siege -
Jul 14, 1456
Finally
Hunyadi's victory over the Mehmet II at the Siege of Belgrade on 14 July 1456, a period of relative peace began in the region -
Sep 20, 1460
Another Victory
Conquest of Morea -
Jul 14, 1461
Yet Another Win?
Conquests on the Black Sea coast -
Apr 3, 1463
Oh No
The governor of the Morea, Isa Beg, took the Venetian-held town of Argos by treason. -
Jul 10, 1463
He is on FIRE
Conquest of Bosnia (1463) -
Aug 4, 1463
Rebuild!
In early August, the Venetians retook Argos and refortified the Isthmus of Corinth, restoring the Hexamilion wall and equipping it with many cannons -
Mar 22, 1464
Good Job
In the Aegean, the new Venetians, tried to take Lesbos in the spring of 1464, and besieged the capital Mytilene for six weeks, until the arrival of an Ottoman fleet under Mahmud Pasha on 18 May forced them to withdraw -
Feb 11, 1465
What a Nice Guy
Mehmed II sent peace feelers to the Venetian Senate in 1465 -
Jun 15, 1479
This War is OVER
The Venetians and Shkodrans resisted the assaults and continued to hold the fortress until Venice ceded Shkodra to the Ottoman Empire in the Treaty of Constantinople as a condition of ending the war. -
Aug 25, 1481
Sad Day! :(
1481 Mehmed marched with the Ottoman army to a new campaign but when reaching Maltepe, Istanbul, the place was later called Hünkar Çayırı ( Field of the Sultan) he became sick and after some days he died on May 3, 1481, at the age of forty-nine, and was buried in his Türbe in the cemetery within the Fatih Mosque Complex[