Battle of Bapheus
Osman's first victory over the Byzantines
On 27 July 1302 Osman's small beylik defeated a Byzantine force near Nicomedia. The victory drew ghazi warriors to Osman from all over Anatolia, and Turkish tradition dates the birth of the Ottoman state from it.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — 2 years earlier
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — 7 years later
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — 13 years later
- c. 1320 Dante completes the Divine Comedy — 18 years later
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 22 years later
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 25 years later
Asia
- 1279 Battle of Yamen: end of the Song — 23 years earlier
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — 21 years earlier
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — 9 years earlier
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 23 years later
Oceania
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — 22 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Marco Polo (aged 48)
- Dante Alighieri (aged 37)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 63)
- Osman I (aged 44)
- Philip IV the Fair (aged 34)
- Mansa Musa (aged 22)
- Orhan (aged 21)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 14)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 14)
- Albert I (aged 47)