1402

Events in 1402 1

• 1402 Battle of Ankara -- Timur captures Bayezid I At the Battle of Ankara (28 July 1402), the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) defeats and captures the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I -- the only Ottoman sultan ever taken prisoner. Timur dismembers the Ottoman state, restoring the Anatolian beyliks the Ottomans had absorbed. Bayezid dies in captivity (1403). The Ottoman succession crisis (the Interregnum, 1402-1413) sees Bayezid's sons fight a civil war. Mehmed I emerges victorious and reunites the empire. The Timurid intervention gives Constantinople a 50-year reprieve.