The Asian World Timeline

By Justine.Sandoval
  • 500

    Grand Canal is completed

  • Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1500

    Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Movable type invented in China

  • Jan 1, 1258

    Mongols defeat the Abbasids at Baghdad

  • Jan 1, 1368

    Zhu Yuanzhang defeats the Mongols and establishes the Ming dynasty

  • Jan 1, 1369

    Timur Lenk seizes power and begins conquests

  • Jan 1, 1397

    Golden Palivion built in Japan

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Japanese civil was results in the collapse of the shogunate

  • Jayavarman is crowned god-king and unites the Khmer of Angkor

  • Tang dynasty begins

  • Fire-lance invented