The Bibi-Khanym Mosque
Timur brings 95 elephants from India to build a mosque
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Back from sacking Delhi, Timur founded a congregational mosque in Samarkand, one of the largest in the Islamic world, with stone hauled by 95 Indian elephants. Built in haste, it soon began to crumble, and an earthquake in 1897 brought part of it down.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 14 years earlier
- 1389 Battle of Kosovo — 10 years earlier
- 1397 Kalmar Union — 2 years earlier
- 1414–1418 Council of Constance — 15 years later
- 1415 Battle of Agincourt — 16 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 19 years earlier
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 11 years later
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 12 years later
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 3 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 22 years earlier
- 1415 Portuguese capture Ceuta — 16 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)