Timur defeats and captures Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, plunging the Ottoman state into a decade of civil war.
Date given in the Julian calendar.
Admiral Zheng He leads seven Ming treasure voyages to Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, Arabia and East Africa.
Ottoman forces under Sultan Mehmed II capture Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire.
The Moroccan scholar Ibn Battuta travels across the Islamic world and beyond, from West Africa to China, for nearly three decades.
Mansa Musa of Mali made the pilgrimage to Mecca with a vast retinue, spending so much gold in Cairo that its value fell, spreading Mali's fame across the Islamic world and Europe.
Ismail I proclaims himself shah in Tabriz, founding the Safavid dynasty and making Twelver Shia Islam Iran's state religion.
Osman I establishes a principality in northwestern Anatolia, the origin of the Ottoman Empire that lasted over six centuries.