Timur builds the White Palace
'If you doubt our power, look at our buildings'
In his home town of Kesh (Shahrisabz), Timur, known in Uzbekistan as Amir Temur, spent 24 years building the Ak-Saray palace with a portal seen from afar. The Spanish envoy Clavijo found craftsmen still at work in 1404; only the two great towers of the portal survive.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1378–1417 Western Schism — 2 years earlier
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 5 years later
- 1389 Battle of Kosovo — 9 years later
- 1397 Kalmar Union — 17 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — same year
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 22 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 3 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 44)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 66)
- Murad I (aged 54)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 48)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 30)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 22)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 20)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 20)
- Richard II (aged 13)
- Sigismund (aged 12)