Late Middle Ages · Africa · War

1464

Sunni Ali Takes Timbuktu

1464

The Songhai ruler seized the fabled Mali trade city and, according to the chroniclers of the Sankore madrasa, punished its scholarly class for supporting his rivals. Manuscripts were hidden, scholars fled to Walata. Timbuktu would recover under his Muslim successor, but its first encounter with Songhai was fire and exile.

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Before and after in Africa

Before: 1463: Ethiopian Embassy Reaches Europe
After: 1465: Songhai Empire Dominates West African Trade

Before and after in War

Before: 1463: First Ottoman-Venetian War Begins
After: 1465: War of the Public Weal in France

Era

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