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         <cell>1402</cell>
         <cell>Bayezid I defeated by Timur the Lame (i.e. the historical source for the protagonist of Marlowe’s <title level="m">Tamburlaine</title>)</cell>
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         <cell>December 1447</cell>
         <cell>Birth of Bayezid II (i.e. <quote>Bajazeth</quote> in the play)</cell>
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         <cell>1453</cell>
         <cell>Defeat of Byzantine Empire and occupation of Byzantium by Mehmud II, Bayezid II’s father; Byzantium becomes seat of the Ottoman Empire and is renamed Istanbul</cell>
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         <cell>July 1456</cell>
         <cell>Mehmud II defeated at the Battle of Belgrade</cell>
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         <cell>1470</cell>
         <cell>Birth of Selim I (i.e. <quote>Selimus</quote> in the play)</cell>
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         <cell>May 1481</cell>
         <cell>Death of Mehmud II; Bayezid II succeeds him as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire</cell>
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         <cell>Ottoman Civil War, Bayezid II contending with an uprising led by his younger brother Cem</cell>
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         <cell>Mameluke-Ottoman War</cell>
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         <cell>1492</cell>
         <cell>Beginning of a large-scale expulsion of Jewish people from the Iberian Peninsula as part of the Spanish Inquisition; many of these people were rescued by Bayezid II and welcomed into Ottoman territories</cell>
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         <cell>Suleiman, son of Selim I, born</cell>
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         <cell>February 1495</cell>
         <cell>Cem, Bayezid II’s exiled younger brother, dies in Naples</cell>
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         <cell>April 1495</cell>
         <cell>Hungarian-Ottoman Truce signed</cell>
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         <cell>Venetian-Ottoman War</cell>
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         <cell>1501</cell>
         <cell>Foundation of Safavid state led by Shah Ismael I (the <quote>Ismael</quote> alluded to in the play</cell>
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         <cell>September 1509</cell>
         <cell>Istanbul devastated by earthquake</cell>
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         <cell>Bayezid II’s son Alemsah dies</cell>
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         <cell>Grand Vezir Hadim Ali Pasha (i.e. father of the play’s <quote>Hali Bassa</quote>) killed leading a force against a shia uprising</cell>
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         <cell>July 1511</cell>
         <cell>Bayezid II soundly defeats Selim I near Chiurlu</cell>
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         <cell>Bayezid II deposed; Selim I becomes Sultan of Ottoman Empire</cell>
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         <cell>May 1512</cell>
         <cell>Bayezid II dies on the road to his birthplace Demotika</cell>
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         <cell>Capture and execution of Selim I’s oldest brother Korkud (i.e. <quote>Corcut</quote> in the play)</cell>
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         <cell>April 1513</cell>
         <cell>Defeat and execution of Selim I’s older brother Ahmed (i.e. <quote>Acomat</quote> in the play)</cell>
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         <cell>1514</cell>
         <cell>Selim I defeats the Persians and their leader Shah Ismael I</cell>
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         <cell>1517</cell>
         <cell>Selim I defeats Egypt and its leader Tuman Bey II</cell>
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         <cell>September 1520</cell>
         <cell>Death of Selim I; Suleiman (i.e. <quote>Suleiman I</quote>, who will become known as <quote>Suleiman the Magnificent</quote>) succeeds his father as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire</cell>
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      <row role="data">
         <cell>1529</cell>
         <cell>Ottoman Siege of Venice</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1530</cell>
         <cell>Paulo Giovio finishes his <title level="m">Commentario de le cose de’ Turchi</title>; the title is printed in Rome in 1532</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1541</cell>
         <cell>Ottoman Siege and Defeat of Buda</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1546</cell>
         <cell>Peter Ashton’s <title level="m">A Short Treatise upon the Turkes Chronicles</title>, a translation of a Latin version of Paulo Giovio’s <title level="m">Commentario de le cose de’ Turchi</title>, printed</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>September 1566</cell>
         <cell>Suleiman I dies; his son Selim (i.e. <quote>Selim II</quote>) succeeds him as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire</cell>
      </row> 
      <row role="data">
         <cell>December 1574</cell>
         <cell>Selim II dies; his son Murad (i.e <quote>Murad III</quote>) succeeds him as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire</cell>
      </row> 
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1581</cell>
         <cell>Levant Company established in London</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1583</cell>
         <cell>Queen’s Men formed</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1587</cell>
         <cell>1 <title level="m">Tamburlaine</title> written and staged</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1588</cell>
         <cell>2 <title level="m">Tamburlaine</title> written and staged</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>September, 1588</cell>
         <cell>Death of Richard Tarlton, star clown actor of the Queen’s Men</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1590</cell>
         <cell>Richard Jones publishes two-part <title level="m">Tamburlaine the Great</title></cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1592</cell>
         <cell><title level="m">Selimus</title> likely written and staged</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>September, 1592</cell>
         <cell>Death of Robert Greene</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1592-1593</cell>
         <cell>London plague; playhouses closed</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1593</cell>
         <cell>Thomas Creede opens first printing house under the sign of the Catherine Wheel in Thames Street</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1593</cell>
         <cell>Richard Jones publishes the second edition of <title level="m">Tamburlaine the Great</title></cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>May 1593</cell>
         <cell>Murder of Christopher Marlowe</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1594</cell>
         <cell>Thomas Creede publishes <title level="m">The First Part of the Tragical Reign of Selimus</title></cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>January 1595</cell>
         <cell>Murad III dies; his son Mehmud (i.e. <quote>Mehmud III</quote>) succeeds him as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire</cell>
      </row> 
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1595</cell>
         <cell>Thomas Creede publishes <title level="m">The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine</title></cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1600</cell>
         <cell>Nicholas Ling, Cuthbert Burby, and Thomas Hayes publish Robert Allott’s <title level="m">England’s Parnassus</title>, a collection of quotations that includes six passages from Selimus each attributed to Robert Greene</cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1603</cell>
         <cell><quote>Certaine hellish verses devysed by that Atheist and traitor Ralegh</quote> (<ptr type="localCit" target="emdSel_M.xml#emdSel_M_anc_295 emdSel_M.xml#emdSel_M_anc_296"/>) appears in two Elizabethan manuscripts; these lines essentially reproduce Selimus’s opening long speech in Scene 2 </cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1638</cell>
         <cell>John Crooke and Richard Sergier reissue <title level="m">The First Part of the Tragical Reign of Selimus</title> as <title level="m">The Tragedy of Selimus Emperor of the Turks. Written T.G.</title></cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1881-1886</cell>
         <cell><title level="m">Selimus</title> reprinted as part of Alexander B. Grosart’s <title level="m">Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene</title></cell>
      </row>
      <row role="data">
         <cell>1898</cell>
         <cell>Edited by Grosart, <title level="m">The Tragical Reign of Selimus</title>, the first modernized, single edition of the play, published in the Temple Dramatists series</cell>
      </row>
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