Timur crushes Tokhtamysh on the Terek
A blow from which the Golden Horde never recovered
Timur defeated his former ally Tokhtamysh, then sacked Sarai and other Horde cities and reached Yelets. Moscow braced for invasion, but Timur turned back. The defeat hastened the Golden Horde's break-up into separate khanates.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 10 years earlier
Asia
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 25 years earlier
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 18 years earlier
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 3 years earlier
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 5 years later
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — 10 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 59)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 63)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 37)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 35)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 35)
- Richard II (aged 28)
- Sigismund (aged 27)
- Zheng He (aged 24)
- Henry V (aged 9)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (aged 52)