Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Timur raises a giant dome over a Sufi's grave and never finishes
Timur ordered a mausoleum over the grave of the 12th-century Sufi poet Khoja Ahmed Yasawi. Its 18-metre dome was among the largest in Central Asia, but work stopped when Timur died in 1405 and the main portal was never faced. Now a UNESCO site, it later saw Kazakh khans proclaimed and buried.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1378–1417 Western Schism — 11 years earlier
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 4 years earlier
- 1389 Battle of Kosovo — same year
- 1397 Kalmar Union — 8 years later
- 1414–1418 Council of Constance — 25 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 9 years earlier
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 21 years later
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 22 years later
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 13 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 12 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 53)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 75)
- Murad I (aged 63)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 57)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 39)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 31)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 29)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 29)
- Richard II (aged 22)
- Sigismund (aged 21)