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c. 1141 CE · 536 AH approximate debated before the Hijra
In 536 the great slaughter between Sultan Sanjar and the unbelieving Turks beyond the River: the Muslims were crushed, Sanjar escaped with a mere handful — reaching Balkh with six souls — his wife and daughter were captured, a hundred thousand or more of his army were killed, and…
Sultan Sanjar's defeat by the Turks beyond the river in 536 — c. 1141 CE · 536 AH
In 536 the great slaughter between Sultan Sanjar and the unbelieving Turks beyond the River: the Muslims were crushed, Sanjar escaped with a mere handful — reaching Balkh with six souls — his wife and daughter were captured, a hundred thousand or more of his army were killed, and the Turks fielded three hundred thousand horse .
The lord of Samarqand betrays the Khwarazmians — c. 1208 CE · 605 AH
The lord of Samarqand betrayed the Khwarazmians and fell upon them — one of the Transoxanian upheavals of these years .
The Beginning of Timur's Rise — c. 1372 CE · 773 AH
In 773 began Timur's emergence — he ruined the lands and destroyed the people, ranging till he died on the night of Wednesday 17 Sha'ban 807, prompting the verse: 'what the Tatars did — had they seen Timur's deeds, that was the greater; his ill omen would have been the worse'. Of peasant stock, he began stealing and cutting the road, then joined the service of the sultan's horse-master and rose without end .
Ulugh Beg's observatory at Samarkand — c. 1420 CE · 823 AH
Ulugh Beg, Timur's grandson, raised his great observatory at Samarkand about 823/1420, producing with Qadizada and Ali Qushji the Sultanic tables .
