The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon — In The East
AD Scope Of Chapter LXV
Histories of TIMOUR, or Tamerlane
1361-1370 His first Adventures
1370 He ascends the Throne of Zagatai
1370-l400 His Conquests
1380-1393 I Of Persia
1370-l383II of Turkestan
1390-1396 of Kipzak, Russia, &c.
1398,1399 III of Hindostan
1400 His War against Sultan Bajazet , Timour invades Syria, Sacks Aleppo
1401 Damascus, And Bagdad
1402 Invades Anatolia
Battle of Angora
Defeat and Captivity of Bajazet
The Story of his Iron Cage, disproved by the Persian historian,
— Attested by the, French, Italians , Arabs, Greeks , Turks
Probable Conclusion
1403 Death of Bajazet
Term of the Conquests of Timour
1404-1405 His Triumph at Samarcand
1405 His Death on the Road to China
Character and Merits of Timour
1403-1421 Civil Wars of the Sons of Bajazet— Mustapha, Isa
1403-1410 Soliman
1410 Mousa
1413-142l Mahomet I.
1421-145l Reign of Amurath II,
1421 Re-union of the Ottoman Empire
1402-l425 State of the Greek Empire
1422 Siege of Constantinople by Amurath II.
1425-1448 The Emperor John Palaeologus II.
Hereditary Succession and Merit of the Ottomans
Education and Discipline of the Turks
Invention and Use of Gunpowder
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