...Damascus is besieged.

The Mamluk sultan dispatches a deputation from Cairo, including Ibn Khaldun, who negotiates with him, but after their withdrawal he puts the city to sack.

The Umayyad Mosque is burnt and men and women are taken into slavery.

In a fatal blow to Damascene prosperity, huge number of the city's artisans are to be taken to Timur's capital at Samarkand.

These are the luckier citizens: many are slaughtered and their heads piled up in a field outside the northeast corner of the walls, where a city square still bears the name burj al-ruus, originally "the tower of heads".