Ahmed II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 48 ) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II ( 1687 – 91 ) in 1691.

Abd ar-Rahman IV Mortada ( عبدالرحمن ) was the Caliph of Cordoba in the Umayyad dynasty of the Al-Andalus ( Moorish Iberia ), succeeding Suleiman II, in 1018.

Their son, Selim II, succeeded Suleiman following his death in 1566 after 46 years of rule.

Suleiman soon made preparations for the conquest of Belgrade from the Kingdom of Hungary — something his great-grandfather Mehmed II had failed to achieve.

As relations between Hungary and the Ottoman Empire deteriorated, Suleiman resumed his campaign in Eastern Europe and on 29 August 1526, he defeated Louis II of Hungary ( 1506 – 26 ) at the Battle of Mohács.

King John II Sigismund Zápolya | John Sigismund of Hungary with Suleiman in 1556.

* April 15 – Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1691 )

* Suleiman II, Caliph of Córdoba,

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

* November 8 – Suleiman II ( 1687 – 1691 ) succeeds the deposed Mehmed IV as Ottoman Emperor.

* June – Ahmed II ( 1691 – 1695 ) succeeds Suleiman II ( 1687 – 1691 ) as emperor of the Ottoman Empire.

* June 23 – Suleiman II, Sultan, Ottoman Empire ( b. 1642 )

* Suleiman II of Rum

* Suleiman II succeeds Mohammed II as Caliph of Córdoba.

* Suleiman II is restored as Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, succeeding Hisham II.

* Abd-ar-Rahman IV succeeds Suleiman II as Umayyad caliph.

* August 29 – Battle of Mohács: The Turkish army of Sultan Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian army of King Louis II, who is killed in the retreat.

In the battle, forces of the Kingdom of Hungary led by King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia were defeated by forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

In 1522, Suleiman II drove the Knight Hospitaller of St. John out of Rhodes.

* The Second World War: Villers Bocage, Bourguébus Ridge, Mont Pinçon, Jurques, Dives Crossing, La Vie Crossing, Lisieux, Le Touques Crossing, Risle Crossing, Roer, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Aller, North-West Europe 1944 – 45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Withdrawal to Matruh, Bir Emba, Sidi Barrani, Buq Buq, Bardia 1941, Capture of Tobruk, Beda Fomm, Halfaya 1941, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk 1941, Gubi I II, Gabr Saleh, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Taieb el Essem, Relief of Tobruk, Saunnu, Msus, Defence of Alamein Line, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Enfidaville, Tunis, North Africa 1940 – 43, Capture of Naples, Volturno Crossing, Italy 1943

He was married to Turhan Hatice ( Khadija ) Valide Sultan, a Ukrainian ( the mother of Mehmed IV ), to Saliha Dilâşub Valide Sultan ( the mother of Suleiman II ), and to Hatice ( Khadija ) Muazzez Sultan ( the mother of Ahmed II ).

* April 18 – Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent ( b. c. 1500 )

On 19 April 2012, Bashir was presented with the insignia of a Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar by the President of Lebanon, General Michel Suleiman, at Government House, Sydney, during his state visit to Australia.

Haseki Hürrem Sultan () (, born 1506, died 15 April 1558 ) ( née Roxelana or Alexandra Lisowska ) was the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent.

Suleiman acted as the commander-in-chief ( as well as personally leading his force ), and in April he appointed his Grand Vizier ( the highest Ottoman minister ), a former Greek slave called Ibrahim Pasha, as Serasker, a commander with powers to give orders in the sultan's name.

In April 1543 Suleiman launched another campaign in Hungary, taking back Bran and other forts so that much of Hungary returned to Ottoman control.

These dying words convinced Suleiman of Ibrahim's disloyalty, and on 15 March 1536 Ibrahim's lifeless body was discovered in the Topkapi Palace.

* October 15 – With the season growing late, Suleiman abandons the siege.

He was appointed the governor of the Ottoman province of Bosnia on September 15, 1521, becoming one of Sultan Suleiman I's most trusted men.

* 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

* 1522 – Siege of Rhodes: Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate.

* 1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1566 )

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

Selim's successor, Suleiman the Magnificent ( 1520 – 1566 ), further expanded upon Selim's conquests.

In August 1523 he was forced into an alliance with the Empire, England, and Venice against France ; meanwhile, in 1522 the Sultan Suleiman I ( 1520 – 66 ) had conquered Rhodes.

Suleiman I (;, Sultān Suleimān-i evvel or, Kānūnī Sultān Suleimān, Modern Turkish: I. Süleyman () or Kanuni Sultan Süleyman ; 6 November 1494 – 5 / 6 / 7 September 1566 ) was the tenth and longest-reigning Emperor, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566.

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

Attempting to defeat the Shah once and for all, Suleiman embarked upon a second campaign in 1548 – 1549.

* 1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.

* November 21 – Michel Suleiman, current President of Lebanon

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

* September 5 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan since 1520 ( b. 1494 )