* 1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.

During his reign, Bayezid II consolidated the Ottoman Empire and thwarted a Safavid rebellion soon before abdicating his throne to his son, Selim I.

Bayezid II married Ayşe Hatun, a convert of Greek ethnicity, who was the mother of Selim I.

Ruling from Constantinople, Sultan Selim I relegated Egypt to a mere province, with Cairo as its capital.

With the advent of the Ottoman Turks and the conquest of Syria by Sultan Selim I in 1516, the Ma ' ans were acknowledged by the new rulers as the feudal lords of southern Lebanon.

The Ottoman sultan, Selim I ( 1516 – 20 ), after defeating the Persians, conquered the Mamluks.

Selim I conquered the Ottoman – Mamluk War ( 1516 – 1517 ) | Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, making the Turks the dominant power in the Islamic world.

Sultan Selim I ( 1512 – 1520 ) dramatically expanded the Empire's eastern and southern frontiers by defeating Shah Ismail of Safavid Persia, in the Battle of Chaldiran.

Selim I established Ottoman rule in Egypt, and created a naval presence on the Red Sea.

Upon the death of his father, Selim I ( 1465 – 1520 ), Suleiman entered Constantinople and acceded to the throne as the tenth Ottoman Sultan.

Whereas previous rulers had been influenced by Persian culture ( Suleiman's father, Selim I, wrote poetry in Persian ), Suleiman's patronage of the arts had seen the Ottoman Empire assert its own artistic legacy.

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* April 7 – Selim III ( 1789 – 1807 ) succeeds Abd-ul-Hamid I ( 1773 – 1789 ) as Ottoman Sultan.

* Selim I succeeds Bayezid II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

* September 22 – Suleiman I succeeds his father Selim I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

* September 22 – Selim I, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1465 )

* September 6 – Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

* October 10 – Selim I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire ( d. 1520 )

Leo, meanwhile, felt the need of staying the advance of the Ottoman sultan, Selim I, who was threatening western Europe, and made elaborate plans for a crusade.

In 1519 the Kingdom of Hungary concluded a three years ' truce with Selim I, but the succeeding sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, renewed the war in June 1521 and on 28 August captured the citadel of Belgrade.

The expansion of the Ottoman Empire along the southern Mediterranean coast under sultan Selim I coincided with the establishment of Inquisition commissions by the Reyes Católicos in Spain, which ended centuries of the Iberian convivencia.

* July 22 – Selim I Giray Crimean khan

* January 22 – Battle of Ridaniya: The Turkish forces of Selim I defeat the main Mamluk army in Egypt under Touman Bey.

Other rewards were bestowed by foreign states, particularly the Ottoman Emperor Selim III, who made Nelson the first Knight Commander of the newly created Order of the Crescent, presented him with a chelengk, a diamond studded Rose, a sable fur and numerous other valuable presents.

The Mamluk province of Bilad a-Sham ( Syria ) was conquered by Turkish Sultan Selim II in 1516 – 17, becoming a part of the province of Ottoman Syria for the next four centuries, first as the Damascus Eyalet and later as the Syria Vilayet ( following the Tanzimat reorganization of 1864 ).

* 1524 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1574 )

Ottoman military reform efforts begin with Selim III ( 1789 – 1807 ) who made the first major attempts to modernize the army along European lines.

The peninsula was governed as part of Egypt under the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt from 1260 until 1517, when the Ottoman Sultan, Selim the Grim, defeated the Egyptians at the Battles of Marj Dabiq and al-Raydaniyya, and incorporated Egypt into the Ottoman Empire.

Selim II ( Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى Selīm-i < u > s </ u > ānī, Turkish: II. Selim ; 28 May 1524 – 12 December / 15 December 1574 ), also known as " Selim the Sot ( Mest )" or " Selim the Drunkard "; and as " Sarı Selim " or " Selim the Blond ", was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574.

Initially the sultan did not meet the demands, and the sloop-of-war USS Dale bombarded the island's fortifications ; ultimately Selim paid US $ 1, 000 and released Captain Moores.

Born in Bozdağan or Manisa, Murad III was the eldest son of sultan Selim II ( 1566 – 74 ), and succeeded his father in 1574.

The Ottoman sultan Selim II thereby arrived to the area where he led the Ottoman army across the Sinai Peninsula to conquer Egypt.

Mameluk Egyptian sultan Al-Ghawri was charged by Selim I with giving the Persian envoys passage through Syria on their way to Venice and harboring refugees.

Selim III would be the only Ottoman sultan to be killed by the sword.

" Selim fled to the palace, where he swore fealty to his cousin as the new sultan, and attempted to commit suicide.

In addition to such secular titles, the Ottoman sultan became the Caliph of Islam bearing the title Khalifeh ül-Rasul Rub al-A ’ alimin ( i. e. Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe ), starting with Selim I, who became Caliph in 1517 after Al-Mutawakkil III, the last of the Abbasid Caliphs in Cairo, formally surrendered the caliphal titles and regalia ( the sword, mantle and other relics of Muhammad ) to Selim in Constantinople the same year.

Another legend has it that the Ottoman sultan Selim II invaded the island just to acquire Commandaria ; also that the grapes used to make this wine were the same grapes exported to Portugal that eventually became famous as the source of port wine.

Suleiman's favourite wife, Roxelana, was eager for her eldest son Selim to become the next sultan.

But after Oruç was killed in battle with the Spanish in 1518, his brother Hızır appealed to Selim I, the Ottoman sultan, who sent him troops.

Pasha was executed on Bozcaada after being exiled for scheming to replace sultan Abdülhamid I, with the " șehzade " ( crown prince ) Selim, the future Sultan.

In 1515 there began the war with the Ottoman sultan Selim I which led to the incorporation of Egypt and its dependencies in the Ottoman Empire.

Egyptian sultan Kansuh was charged by Selim with giving the envoys of the Safavid Ismail passage through Syria on their way to Venice to form a confederacy against the Turks, and with harbouring various refugees.

In 1517 the Ottoman Turks and their sultan Selim I defeated the Mamluks with the capture of Cairo on January 20.

The first revolt termed as such occurred in 1519, during sultan Selim I's reign, near Tokat under the leadership of Celâl, an Alevi preacher, and the name of the chief rebel was later used by Ottoman histories to define other uprisings of similar nature.

He was granted the position of governor by sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire for his help in the conquest of Egypt.

When he arrived in Constantinople together with his aunt Gracia Mendes Nasi, Nasi made a fortunate decision in supporting the future sultan Selim, against his rival Bayezid ; as a result, he was favored by the Seraglio, and eventually became a high ranking diplomat and minister.

Having gathered a large army of mercenaries, he rebelled against the Ottoman sultan Selim III, and, acting as an independent ruler, he minted his own coins and had diplomatic relations with foreign states ( including the French Republic ).

1745 – 1805 ), Genoese spouse of Ottoman sultan Mustafa III and the mother of sultan Selim III