1401
Timur Storms Damascus
The amir's siege engines cracked the Umayyad capital in weeks.
Christine de Pizan Writes The Book of the City of Ladies
A Venetian-born widow writing in French composed an allegorical defense of women's intellectual capacity, cataloguing heroic and learned women from antiquity…
Kano Chronicle Records Sarki Muhammad Rumfa
The Hausa city-state of Kano in what is now northern Nigeria was emerging as a significant West African trade center under its increasingly powerful rulers.
Sack of Baghdad by Timur
Twenty thousand skulls, the chroniclers insist, were stacked into towers outside the Abbasid city's ruined gates.
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Frequently asked
What happened in the year 1401?
Saeculum lists 4 events from 1401. The most significant is Timur Storms Damascus: The amir's siege engines cracked the Umayyad capital in weeks.
What era was 1401 part of?
1401 falls within the Late Middle Ages (1301-1500). Plague, papal schism, and the seeds of nation-states.
Which regions saw notable events in 1401?
The events from 1401 span Middle East, Europe and Africa.