Skip to content
Conflict

Shaybanid Conquest of Transoxiana

1500 CE – 1510 CE · 10 years

Muhammad Shaybani rallied Uzbek tribes from the Qipchaq steppe, drove the Timurids out of Samarkand and Bukhara in 1500–01, took Herat in 1507, and pushed Babur into exile in Kabul — before being killed by Safavid forces at Merv in 1510.

See it on the timeline

Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Uzbek Shaybanids (Muhammad Shaybani Khan)
  • Timurids (Babur, Sultan Husayn Bayqara, Badi' al-Zaman)
  • Safavid Iran (Shah Ismail I)

Key moments

Defining events in the Shaybanid Conquest of Transoxiana.

  1. 1500–1501 Capture of Samarkand
  2. 1507 Conquest of Herat
  3. 2 December 1510 Battle of Merv

Running at the same time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Golden Horde

1243 CE – 1502 CE

Conflict

Russo–Kazan Wars

1445 CE – 1556 CE

Figure · Spain / Atlantic / Caribbean

Christopher Columbus

1451 CE – 1506 CE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Chagatai Khanate

1225 CE – 1687 CE

Figure · Geneva

John Calvin

1509 CE – 1564 CE

Landmark

Pamir Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 CE and 1510 CE.

1500 CE Royal Hill of Ambohimanga 1500 CE Surat 1501 CE Safavid Empire Conquests 1501 CE Jerónimos Monastery 1503 CE Seville 1506 CE St. Peter's Basilica

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Kilwa Kisiwani Landmark · Africa 900 CE – 1505 CE Khoiasan Polity · Africa 1500 BCE – 1500 CE Mediterranean Southern Route Trade route · Middle East 331 BCE – 1500 CE Mississippian Chiefdom Wars Conflict · Americas 800 CE – 1500 CE Bruges Landmark · Europe 1200 CE – 1500 CE Safavid Empire Polity · Middle East 1501 CE – 1736 CE
Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons