Founding of the Crimean Khanate
Hacı Giray breaks Crimea away from the Horde, until 1783
Around 1441 Hacı Giray, a descendant of Genghis Khan, became independent khan of Crimea with the backing of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. His Giray dynasty ruled for over three centuries; from 1475 the khanate was an Ottoman vassal, and in 1783 Russia annexed it.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — 12 years earlier
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 9 years later
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 12 years later
Asia
- c. 1424 Ulugh Beg's observatory — 17 years earlier
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 5 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 3 years earlier
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 9 years later
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 9 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 4 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 41)
- Mehmed II (aged 9)
- Sejong the Great (aged 44)
- Charles VII (aged 38)
- Murad II (aged 37)
- Pachacuti (aged 23)
- Louis XI (aged 18)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 5)
- Ivan III (aged 1)
- Ulugh Beg (aged 47)