Battle of Kulikovo
Rus' wins its first major victory over the Horde
Forces of the Russian principalities led by Grand Prince Dmitry of Moscow defeated the army of the Horde warlord Mamai. The victory raised Moscow's standing as the centre for uniting the Russian lands and earned Dmitry the name Donskoy.
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The Battle of Kulikovo (1380) fell in the middle of the Hundred Years' War, which had been raging for 43 years and had 73 more to go.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 5 years later
Asia
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 12 years earlier
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 10 years earlier
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 3 years earlier
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 12 years later
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 20 years later
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)