Afterwards: Events subsequent to the end of the Great Crusades

The following is a brief description of the 500 years after the end of the Great Crusades but which did display crusading activities. Even the explorations of the Americas is related to the crusades; many explorers wanted to convert the peoples in the Americas. Moreover, the crusades have been seen as increasing the tendency of Europeans to explore.

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Friday, October 13, 1307	Philip IV of France orders all Templars in France arrested for heresy
1309	Hospitallers move headquarters to Rhodes
by 1310	Hospitallers conquer all of Rhodes
1312	Templars suppressed by Pope Clement V
1314	James of Molay, Templar grand master, burned at stake
1337	start of Hundred Years' War between England and France
1340	Castile's Alfonso XI defeats Muslims from Granada and North Africa at the Battle of Salado
1344	Alfonso XI seizes Algeciras (port city)
by 1355	Ottoman Turks isolate Constantinople from Europe
1365	Peter of Cyprus seizes Alexandra for six days
1366	first European (crusading) response to Ottoman Turks
1369	Peter of Cyprus killed in a coup
1371	Ottomans defeat Serbs at Crnomen
1378-1417	the Great Schism; two or three competing popes in Rome and Avignon, France
1385	Ottomans take Sofia
1387	Ottomans take Thessalonica
1389	Ottomans defeat Christian in Balkans at Kassovsky; Sultan Bayezid I begins organizing Ottoman rule over Balkans
summer 1390	French crusading army besieges Mahdia, Tunisia, for 9-10 weeks until relief army arrives and trade treaty negotiatied
1396	Crusade of Nicopolis, a mainly French crusade against Bayezid; during it Nicopolis is besieged
September 25, 1396	end of the Crusade of Nicopolis in defeat
1400	Tamerlane (a Mongol) invades Syria, then controlled by Mamluks
1402	Tamerlane defeats and captures Bayezid I at Battle of Ankara
1405	Tamerlane dies near China's frontiers
1415	John Hus (from Bohemia) burned for heresy
1415	Prince Henry the Navigator (Portugal) crusades in Morocco
1420-1432	several unsuccessful crusades against Hussites in Bohemia
July 7, 1426	Mamluks take Cyprus
1430	Ottomans reseize Thessalonica (lost during fighting with Mongols)
1434	Ottomans take Serbia
1437	Prince Henry the Navigator (Portugal) crusades in Morocco
1444	Ottoman sultan Murad II defeats Hungarian crusaders at Varna
1448	Hungarians defeated by Ottomans at battle at Kossovo, despite previous victories
1451	Mehmed II becomes sultan of Ottomans
April 6, 1453	Ottomans, under Mehmed, begin siege of Constantinople
Tuesday, May 29, 1453	Ottomans take Constantinople
1454-59	Mehmed II campaigns in Greece and the Balkans
1455	Pope Nicholas V "provide[s] formal legitimization of Portugal's overseas conquests in the bull Romanus Pontifex " (Chronicles 364)
1456	Christians relieve Turkish siege of Belgrade
1456	Mehmed II conquers Athens
1458	Prince Henry the Navigator (Portugal) crusades in Morocco
1458-1460	Ottomans conquer Peloponnese
1469	Isabella of Castile marries Ferdinand of Aragon (both in Spain)
1474	Mehmed II takes Cilicia
1476	Mehmed II defeats Christians and Mongols in Balkans
1476-7	Mehmed II seizes Moldavia from Christians
1479	Venice signs unfavorable peace treaty with Ottomans
1479	peace established between Castile and Aragon in Spain
May 1481	Mehmed II dies, Ottoman empire in disorder
1482-1492	Christian Castile and Aragon attack Muslim Granada in Spain
1489	Venetians seize Cyprus
January 2, 1492	Granada surrenders to Castile and Aragon; Christians have finally finished (re)taking Spain (started 1037)
1492	Christopher Columbus, funded by Isabella of Castile, voyages to the Americas
1497-1510	Castilians invade North Africa
1502	Isabella of Castile forces Muslims in Spain to choose between exile and converting
1515-1517	Selim I defeats Mamluks and adds Egypt, Palestine, and Syria to Ottoman empire
1517	Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses. Start of Protestant Reformation
1519-21	Cortés conquers parts of Mexico for Spain
1520-September 1566	Suleyman the Magnificent is sultan of Ottoman empire, successor of Selim I
1521	Suleyman takes Belgrade
1522	Suleyman takes Rhodes, including headquarters of Hospitallers
January 1, 1523	Hospitallers leave Rhodes
1526	Treaty of Madrid between Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor and king of Spain and Sicily) and Francis I of France; in it is proposed a crusade against Lutherans as well as Muslims
fall 1529	the first Ottoman siege of Vienna
March 23, 1530	Charles V gives Malta, Tripoli, and Gozo to Hospitallers
1534	Suleyman takes Tunis
1535	Charles V takes Tunis
August 14, 1551	Ottomans take Tripoli from Hospitallers
May 19-September 8, 1565	Ottomans unsuccessfully try to take Malta from Hospitallers
September 1566	Suleyman dies; Selim II begins rule
1570-1	Selim II conquers Cyprus
October 1571	a Christian naval league defeats the Ottomans at the battle of Lepanto
1574	Turks take Tunisia from the Spanish
1588	Spanish armada fails in attack on England
1614	large raid by Turks on Hospitallers on Malta
1645	Turks begin fighting Venice for control of Crete
September 26, 1669	Turks gain control of Crete from Venice
1676	Hospitallers start a school of anatomy
July 14-September 12, 1683	a second unsuccessful Turkish siege of Vienna
1684-97	league of Christians fight Turks; known as the War of the Holy League
1685-7	Venetians take most of the Peloponnese
1688-1690	league of Christians take Belgrade
1699	Peace of Karlowitz; Ottomans give up Hungary, Transylvania, and other territories; end of Ottoman advances
1715	Turks retake the Peloponnese
1768	Hospitallers start a university
1792	French government seizes Hospitaller property in France
June 13, 1798	Napoleon takes Malta from the 322 Hospitallers still there

References: Hallam [2], Riley-Smith [1], Riley-Smith [2]