Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics

1363

Timur emerges in Transoxiana

1363

A Barlas chieftain near Kesh, lamed by an arrow in earlier raids, joined the service of the Chagatayid khan Tughlugh Temur and learned the politics of steppe diplomacy. Within seven years Timur would seize Samarkand, kill his brother-in-law, and begin three decades of campaigns that would reach Damascus, Delhi, and the gates of Beijing.

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Before and after in Central Asia

Before: 1362: Tamerlane wounded in the leg
After: 1365: Tamerlane and the grave of Tughlugh Temur

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1362: Tamerlane wounded in the leg
After: April 1364: Charles V succeeds his father in France

Era

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