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Timur, attacked by fever and plague when encamped on the farther side of the Sihon (Syr-Daria), dies at Atrar (Otrar) in mid-February 1405.

His scouts had explored Mongolia before his death, and the writing they had carved on trees in Mongolia's mountains could still be seen even in the twentieth century.

Of Timur's four sons, two (Jahangir and Umar Shaykh) have predeceased him.

His third son, Miran Shah, dies soon after Timur, leaving the youngest son, Shah Rukh.

Although his designated successor is his grandson Pir Muhammad (born Jahangir), Timur is ultimately succeeded in power by his son Shah Rukh.

His most illustrious descendant, Babur, will found the Mughal Empire and rule over most of North India.

Babur's descendants, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb, will expand the Mughal Empire to most of the Indian subcontinent along with parts of modern Afghanistan.

The Timurid Emirate now rules the lands from Anatolia to Mesopotamia.

Timur’s fourth son, Shah Rokh, or Rukh, gains power over most of Persia by 1407.

Unlike his father, a man of horrific violence, he works to establish peace and prosperity and patronizes religion and the arts.

Shah Rokh’s son, Ulugh Beg, serves as his father’s viceroy in Transoxiania, where, like his father, he supports the arts.

Mikhail Chernyayev, having reached the rank of Major-General, makes his famous march with one thousand men across the steppes of Turkestan to Chimkent (Shymkent) in the Khanate of Kokand in 1864, to meet another Russian column from Semipalatinsk (Semey), in Siberia, in conjunction with which he successfully storms Chimkent, then ...