Scope Of Chapter 65
In The East from The Decline And Fall

Histories of TIMOUR, or Tamerlane
and BAJAZET

ADEvent
1361-1370Timour's first Adventures
1370He ascends the Throne of Zagatai
1370-l400His Conquests
1380-1393I Of Persia
1370-l383II of Turkestan
1390-1396 of Kipzak, Russia, etc.
1398,1399III of Hindostan
1400His War against Sultan Bajazet
Timour invades Syria, Sacks Aleppo
1401Damascus, And Bagdad
1402Invades Anatolia; Battle of Angora
Defeat and Captivity of Bajazet
The Story of his Iron Cage,
disproved by the Persian historian,
–Attested by the French, Italians, Arabs,
Greeks,Turks; Probable Conclusion
1403 Death of Bajazet
Term of the Conquests of Timour
1404-1405His Triumph at Samarcand
1405 His Death on the Road to China
Character and Merits of Timour
1403-1421Civil Wars of the Sons of Bajazet
Mustapha & Isa
1403-1410 Soliman
1410Mousa
1413-142l Mahomet I
1421-145lReign of Amurath II
1421Re-union of the Ottoman Empire
1402-l425State of the Greek Empire
1422Siege of Constantinople by Amurath II
1425-1448Emperor John Palaeologus II;
Hereditary Succession
& Merit of Ottomans
Education & Discipline of the Turks
Invention & Use of Gunpowder