Osman I founds the Ottoman state
A small beylik seeds an empire that will last six centuries
Around 1299 Osman I, leader of a Turkish beylik in Bithynia, became an independent ruler. The state he founded grew into the Ottoman Empire, which lasted more than six centuries.
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The Ottoman state, founded around 1299, still existed when the Wright brothers made the first airplane flight: the sultanate was abolished only in 1922.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — 1 year later
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — 10 years later
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — 16 years later
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 25 years later
Asia
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — 18 years earlier
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — 6 years earlier
Oceania
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — 19 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Marco Polo (aged 45)
- Dante Alighieri (aged 34)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 60)
- Osman I (aged 41)
- Philip IV the Fair (aged 31)
- Mansa Musa (aged 19)
- Orhan (aged 18)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 11)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 11)
- Albert I (aged 44)