Europe and the Ottoman Empire: the end of the Middle AgesWars and battles
Battle of Mohács
The army of Suleiman I crushed the Hungarian forces; King Louis II drowned while fleeing, and the united, independent Kingdom of Hungary ceased to exist.
- Date
- 29 August 1526exact dateDate in the Julian calendar
- Place
- Mohácstoday: Mohács, Hungary · Western and Central Europe
- Participants
- Suleiman I the Magnificent, Louis II of Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Hungary
- Threads
- Europe and the Ottoman Empire: the end of the Middle Ages
More than 14,000 Hungarian soldiers, over a thousand nobles and seven bishops fell in the battle. The death of the childless Louis II opened a struggle for the Hungarian crown in which Ferdinand of Habsburg was one of the claimants, and in 1541 the Ottomans occupied Buda. Mohács began nearly two centuries of conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburgs over Hungary. The date is given in the Julian calendar.
Connections
Causes and preconditions
- Accession of Suleiman the Magnificent30 September 1520 · Balkans and Anatoliathe young sultan’s campaigns in Europe
Consequences
- Siege of Vienna (1529)27 September – 15 October 1529 · Western and Central Europe
Related events
- Siege of Belgrade (1456)4–22 July 1456 · Balkans and AnatoliaBelgrade fell only in 1521, and its loss opened the road to Mohács for Suleiman I
Adjacent events in the thread
- Sack of Rome (1527)6 May 1527 · Western and Central Europe
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within 25 years of this event
Eastern Europe
- Battle of Orsha8 September 1514
- Capture of Smolensk (1514)between 30 July and 1 August 1514
- Annexation of Pskov by Moscow13 January 1510
- Coronation of Ivan IV as tsar16 January 1547
Balkans and Anatolia
- Accession of Suleiman the Magnificent30 September 1520
Middle East and Egypt
- Capture of Baghdad by Suleiman Ibetween November and December 1534
- Battle of Ridaniya22 January 1517
- Battle of Chaldiran23 August 1514
- Portuguese conquest of Hormuz25 September 1507 – 1 April 1515
- Ismail I proclaimed shah in Tabriz1501
Africa
- Letters of Afonso I of Kongo on the slave trade1526
- Ethiopian–Adal WarMarch 1529 – 21 February 1543
Central and Northern Asia
- Shaybani Khan destroys the Timurid Empire1500 – 27 May 1507
South Asia
- First Battle of Panipat21 April 1526
- Portuguese conquest of Goa25 November 1510
- Battle of Diu3 February 1509
East Asia
Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Battle of Mactan27 April 1521
- Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War: the beginning of Burma’s unification1534 – May 1541
- Capture of Malacca25 July – between 10 August and 24 August 1511
North America
- Jacques Cartier’s second voyage — up the Saint Lawrence River19 May 1535 – 16 July 1536
- Hernando de Soto’s expedition into the interior of North America30 May 1539 – September 1543
- Voyages of the Corte-Real brothers to Newfoundland1500–1502
Latin America
- Fall of Tenochtitlan13 August 1521
- Battle of Cajamarca16 November 1532
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec EmpireFebruary 1519 – 13 August 1521
- Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean25–29 September 1513
- Founding of Salvador and the Governorate General of Brazil29 March 1549
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Battle of Mohács
- Wikipedia (Russian): Битва при Мохаче (1526)
- Finkel C. Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923. — London: John Murray, 2005.
- Wikidata: Q178510