1481 (CofD)

Events

 * Sultan Mehmed II dies. His grand vizier attempts to crown Mehmet’s younger son, Cem, as sultan, but Janissaries discover the plot and support Mehmet’s elder son, Bayezid, storming Kostantiniyye and killing the scheming vizier. The Janissaries riot within the city while the two potential sultans travel to the imperial capital. Bayezid arrives by the end of the month and is quickly crowned. Cem revolts, seizing lands in the east and proposing the two brothers split the empire. Bayezid rejects the offer, enraged, and defeats his brother in a bitter civil war. Cem survives, however, and becomes a prisoner of the Knights Hospitaller and the Pope. Bayezid bribes his enemies to keep his brother imprisoned and his throne secure.