The Kutlug Timur Minaret
Urgench, reborn after the Mongols, raises a 60-metre minaret
Rebuilt after the Mongol sack, Urgench flourished again under the Golden Horde. Its governor Kutlug Timur completed a brick minaret about 60 metres tall, well above Bukhara's Kalyan; today it stands almost in the desert, far from the shifted Oxus.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — 15 years earlier
- c. 1320 Dante completes the Divine Comedy — 10 years earlier
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — 7 years later
- 1346 Battle of Crécy — 16 years later
- 1347–1351 Black Death — 17 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 7 years later
Middle East
- 1354 Ottomans take Gallipoli — 24 years later
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 6 years earlier
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 3 years earlier
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 5 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Mansa Musa (aged 50)
- Orhan (aged 49)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 42)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 42)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 26)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 25)
- Edward III (aged 18)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 16)
- Charles IV (aged 14)
- Murad I (aged 4)