Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics

1405

Timur Dies at Otrar

February 18, 1405

Seventy years old and marching on China with two hundred thousand men, the conqueror caught fever in a Kazakh steppe fort and died before crossing the Syr Darya. Ming intelligence had been frantic; now the empire simply exhaled. His body was carried home to the jade tomb of the Gur-e-Amir.

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Before and after in Central Asia

Before: 1404: Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo Rides to Samarkand
After: 1410: Herat Becomes Timurid Cultural Capital

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1404: Kilwa Sultanate at Commercial Peak
After: 1406: Florence Conquers Pisa

Era

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

Sources

Wikipedia: Timur