Battle of the Vorskla River
Edigu crushes Vytautas, ending Lithuania's hopes in the steppe
Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania backed the deposed khan Tokhtamysh against Edigu's protégé, Khan Temür Qutlugh. On the Vorskla his army, with Rus' princes and Teutonic knights, was routed. Dozens of princes were killed, and Vytautas's plans to control the Horde collapsed.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 14 years earlier
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 3 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 22 years earlier
Asia
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 22 years earlier
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 7 years earlier
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 1 year later
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — 6 years later
- c. 1424 Ulugh Beg's observatory — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 63)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 67)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 41)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 39)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 39)
- Richard II (aged 32)
- Sigismund (aged 31)
- Zheng He (aged 28)
- Henry V (aged 13)
- Sejong the Great (aged 2)