Rise of the Kingdom of Kongo
One of Central Africa's largest states takes shape
Around 1390 the Kingdom of Kongo emerged on the lower Congo River, with its capital at Mbanza Kongo. By the time the Portuguese arrived in the 1480s it was one of the largest states in Central Africa.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 5 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 10 years earlier
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 20 years later
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 21 years later
Asia
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 20 years earlier
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 13 years earlier
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 2 years later
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 10 years later
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 54)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 76)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 58)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 32)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 30)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 30)
- Richard II (aged 23)
- Sigismund (aged 22)
- Zheng He (aged 19)
- Henry V (aged 4)