Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics

1362

Tamerlane wounded in the leg

1362

During a cattle raid in Sistan, the young Timur took the arrow wound that gave him his lifelong limp and Western nickname Tamerlane, from Timur-i lenk, 'Timur the Lame.' His right leg and right hand were permanently damaged. The wound never healed fully. He campaigned on horseback for the next forty years, often in severe pain.

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Before and after in Central Asia

Before: 1359: Timur-i Lenk's first major campaign in Khwarezm
After: 1363: Timur emerges in Transoxiana

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1360: Murad I organizes the devshirme child levy
After: 1363: Timur emerges in Transoxiana

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.