II. IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE FIRST CENTURY OF OTTOMAN HISTORY
1299—Osman, Turkish emir in the valley of the Kara Su, makes Yeni Sheïr, between Brusa and Nicaea, his residence.
1301—Osman defeats the Byzantine heterarch Muzalon at Baphaeon, near Nicomedia.
1308—Kalolimni, island in the Sea of Marmora, is occupied. Ak Hissar and Tricocca are captured.
1317—Investment of Brusa begins.
1326—Brusa surrenders. Osman hears the news on his death-bed at Yeni Sheïr.
1329—Byzantines under Andronicus III are defeated at Pelecanon (Maltepé).
Nicaea surrenders.
1333—Alaeddin pasha, brother of Orkhan and first vizier, dies.
Death of Bahadur Khan removes the Mongol menace.