The Timurid dynasty was founded by Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane, a Turco-Mongol conqueror who took power in Transoxiana and built a vast empire from Samarkand, through campaigns in Persia, Mesopotamia, India and Anatolia. After his death the empire fragmented, but his descendants ruled over Persia and Central Asia for a century. Under rulers such as Shah Rukh and Ulugh Beg, an astronomer, the Timurid court became a center of art, architecture and science, with cities like Samarkand and Herat, in what is called the Timurid Renaissance. The dynasty was pushed out of Central Asia by the Uzbeks, but Timur's descendant Babur went on to found the Mughal Empire in India, which carried the Timurid line until 1857.
Before and after
- from 1368 to 1644Ming dynasty
- 1369Rise of House of Trastámara
- from 1369 to 1389Caroline War
- from 1370 to 1789Construction of Bastille
- 1370Rise of Timurid dynasty
- from 1370 to 1507Timurid Empire
- 1371Rise of House of Stuart
- 1371Birth of Zheng He
- from 1373 to 1379Byzantine civil war of 1373–1379
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