Timeline
- 1350 or 1351 — Ivan Shishman was born
- By 1355 — Proclaimed heir to the throne and co-emperor
- 17 February 1371 — Succeeds his father as Emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo
- 1373 — Becomes Ottoman vassal in return for some previously conquered lands
- 1378 — Issues the Rila Charter
- 1385 — Fall of Sofia
- 1384 to 1386 — Successful war against Wallachia
- 1388 — The Ottomans invade eastern Bulgaria and conquer a number of towns
- 17 July 1393 — Fall of Tarnovo
- 3 June 1395 — The Ottomans capture Nikopol and Ivan Shishman is executed
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