430 chronological table
1386–91 Attempts by Amadeo vi of Savoy to capture the Principality of Achaea
are thwarted by the papal schism.
1387 April: Ottomans occupy Thessalonica for the first time.
1388 2 May: Nerio Acciaiuoli occupies the Acropolis at Athens.
1389 15 June: battle of Kosovo; Serbs crushed followed by first Ottoman raids
into Hungary.
1391–1403 Thessalonica occupied by the Turks.
1392–94 Thessaly conquered by the Turks.
1394 Early: Turks capture Neopatras, Livadia and Salona.
25 September: Nerio Acciaiuoli dies at Corinth. He leaves Corinth to
his daughter Francesca, Athens to the dean and chapter of the cathe-
dral under Venetian protection, and Thebes and Livadia to his bastard
Antonio.
1394–1403 Venetian garrison installed on the Acropolis at Athens.
1396 Turks conquer Albania.
25 September: Burgundian and Hungarian crusaders slaughtered by
the Turks at Nicopolis.
1397 3 June: Argos razed by the Turks.
1399–1402 Manuel Palaiologos travels through western Europe seeking military
support against the Turks.
1402 Antonio I Acciaiuoli captures the lower town of Athens.
28 July: Tamerlane defeats the Turks at Ankara and captures Bayezid I.
Halt placed thereby on Ottoman expansion.
December: Tamerlane expels the Hospitallers from Smyrna.
1403 January/February: Acciaiuoli expels the Venetian garrison from the
Acropolis at Athens.
Venetians regain Thessalonica from the Ottomans.
1404 30 April: Centurione ii Zaccaria purchases investiture as prince of
Achaea from Ladislas of Naples.
Hospitallers try unsuccessfully to raise revolt against the Turks in the
Salona region.
Duke of Naxos in the West seeking support against the Turks.
1414 20 June: Turks capture Boudonitsa.
1415 Greeks of Mistra rebuild the 5th-century Hexamilion Wall across the
Isthmus of Corinth as protection against Turkish expansion.
1415–16 Turks occupy several Aegean islands.
1417–18 Greeks of Mistra capture Elis, reducing Frankish possessions to
Glarenza and Patras.
1423–30 War between Venetians and Ottomans over Thessalonica.
Venetian garrison installed in Thessalonica.