Travels of Ibn Battuta
Nearly 30 years on the road, from Mali to China
The Moroccan Ibn Battuta left his native Tangier on pilgrimage and spent nearly 30 years travelling. He journeyed from Mali and East Africa to India and China, covering an estimated 120,000 kilometres.
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Ibn Battuta witnessed the Black Death: in 1348 he was in Damascus, where, he wrote, thousands were dying each day.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — 25 years earlier
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — 16 years earlier
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — 10 years earlier
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — 12 years later
- 1347–1351 Black Death — 22 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 12 years later
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — same year
Alive at the time
- Mansa Musa (aged 45)
- Orhan (aged 44)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 37)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 37)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 21)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 20)
- Edward III (aged 13)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 11)
- Charles IV (aged 9)
- Giotto (aged 58)