Battle of Ankara
Timur captures Sultan Bayezid and nearly ends the Ottomans
Timur routed the army of Sultan Bayezid I the Thunderbolt and took him prisoner; Bayezid died in captivity in 1403. His sons fought each other for the throne for a decade, and the Ottoman state nearly fell apart. The defeat delayed the fall of Constantinople by half a century.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 17 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 22 years earlier
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 8 years later
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 9 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 25 years earlier
Asia
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 25 years earlier
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 10 years earlier
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 2 years earlier
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — 3 years later
- c. 1424 Ulugh Beg's observatory — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 66)
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 2)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 70)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 44)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 42)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 42)
- Sigismund (aged 34)
- Zheng He (aged 31)
- Henry V (aged 16)
- Sejong the Great (aged 5)