Battle of the Vozha River
Moscow's first big victory over a Horde army in open battle
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The army of Dmitry of Moscow routed a Horde force under Begich, sent by the warlord Mamai, on the Vozha. It was the first major victory of the Russian princes over the Horde in open battle. Mamai retaliated by ravaging Ryazan, and two years later marched on Rus' himself, to Kulikovo Field.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 7 years later
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 24 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 1 year earlier
Asia
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 10 years earlier
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 8 years earlier
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 1 year earlier
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 14 years later
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 42)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 64)
- Charles IV (aged 62)
- Murad I (aged 52)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 46)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 28)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 20)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 18)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 18)
- Richard II (aged 11)