Death of Timur
1405 · Event
The conqueror dies on the march to invade China; his vast Central Asian empire fragments but seeds the Timurid Renaissance and the Mughals.
On these timelines: Master, Mongol Empire, Persia and Iran
Around 1405
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)
- Forbidden City built (1406)