Tver Uprising
Tver kills a Horde envoy, and Moscow helps the Horde punish it
The people of Tver killed the Horde envoy Chol Khan, a cousin of Khan Özbeg, and his troops. The khan sent a punitive army, joined by Ivan Kalita of Moscow, and the principality of Tver was laid waste. Moscow received the patent for the grand principality and overtook its main rival.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — 18 years earlier
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — 12 years earlier
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — 10 years later
- 1347–1351 Black Death — 20 years later
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 3 years earlier
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — same year
Asia
- 1351 Founding of Ayutthaya — 24 years later
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 2 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Mansa Musa (aged 47)
- Orhan (aged 46)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 39)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 39)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 23)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 22)
- Edward III (aged 15)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 13)
- Charles IV (aged 11)
- Murad I (aged 1)