Timur sacks Baghdad
Pyramids of skulls in the old caliphs' capital
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In the summer of 1401 Timur stormed Baghdad, held for the Jalayirids, and ordered each soldier to bring him the heads of townspeople. The city, still recovering from the Mongols of 1258, fell into long decline.
Wikipedia (English) · 15th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 16 years earlier
- 1389 Battle of Kosovo — 12 years earlier
- 1397 Kalmar Union — 4 years earlier
- 1414–1418 Council of Constance — 13 years later
- 1415 Battle of Agincourt — 14 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 21 years earlier
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 9 years later
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 10 years later
- 1425–1453 Muscovite War of Succession — 24 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 24 years earlier
- 1415 Portuguese capture Ceuta — 14 years later
Asia
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 9 years earlier
- 1398 Timur sacks Delhi — 3 years earlier
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 1 year earlier
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — 4 years later
- c. 1424 Ulugh Beg's observatory — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 65)
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 1)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 69)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 43)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 41)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 41)
- Sigismund (aged 33)
- Zheng He (aged 30)
- Henry V (aged 15)
- Sejong the Great (aged 4)