Middle AgesWar & Conflict Battle of Ankara 1402Notable Timur defeats and captures Sultan Bayezid I. The Ottoman state falls into a decade of civil war, giving Byzantium a reprieve. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Babylonian mathematics → Babylonian astronomical diaries → Thales and natural philosophy → Trial and death of Socrates → Plato's Academy → Aristotle's Lyceum → Alexander's conquests → Death of Alexander and the Hellenistic kingdoms → Seleucid Empire founded → Parthian Empire founded → Sasanian Empire → Birth of Muhammad → Muhammad's first revelations → The Hijra → Conquest of Mecca → Death of Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphate → Arab conquests → Abbasid Caliphate → Seljuk Turks take Baghdad → Battle of Manzikert → Sultanate of Rum → Battle of Köse Dağ → Ottoman state founded → Battle of Ankara Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentbritannica.comBattle of Ankara (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookJustin MarozziTamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeBattle of Ankara 1402 ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeTimur versus Bayezid ↗Editor's pick