Moghulistan
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Was a Mongol breakaway khanate of the Chagatai Khanate.
Establishment
January 1348: The powerful Dughlats enthroned a son of Esen Buqa I, Tughlugh Timur as khan of Moghulistan in 1347.
Chronology
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Military campaigns of Timur (or Tamerlane), a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia.
January 1364: Following his death in 1363, Timur and Amir Husayn took over Transoxiana.
January 1371: After capturing the city, Timur executed Khabul Shah, the Husayn's puppet Khan of Western Chagatai and installed Suurgatmish on the throne of Khan as his puppet. This made Timur the main power in Mawarannahr and Western Chagatai Khanate.
January 1371: The two main parts of the Chagatai Khanate were defeated by Timur (Tamerlane) (1336-1405), who founded the Timurid Empire.
January 1351: Nagar, founded by Shri Badat in 1350, was ruled by the Trakhan Dynasty. The British gained control after defeating the rulers Mir of Hunza and Mir of Nagar in the Hunza-Nagar Campaign led by Colonel Durand.
January 1351: In 1350, Moghulistan ruler Tughlugh invaded Transoxania and conquered it.
January 1369: The Dughlat Qamar-ud-din Khan Dughlat rebelled and killed Ilyas Khoja of Moghulistan in 1368, taking the throne for himself. Ilyas Khoja's brother Khizr Khoja fled to Turpan where he set up his own independent realm.
January 1371: Yingchang was seized by the Ming shortly after the death of Northern Yuan ruler Toghon Temür (r. 1333-1370).
January 1381: By the 1370s the Kingdom of Qocho ceased to exist.
January 1390: The territory founded by the Yuan prince Gunashiri, a descendant of Chagatai Khan, in 1389 was Kara Del. It was ruled by the Chagatayids, a branch of the Mongol Empire, after its establishment.
January 1391: Khizr Khoja assumed power in Moghulistan.
January 1400: In 1399, the Oirats, a western Mongol group, gained control of the territory in the region. The Oirats were one of the four major tribes of the Oirat people, who formed the Alliance of the Four Oirats. This event marked a significant shift in power dynamics among the Mongol tribes.
January 1400: Athe lliance of the Four Oirat Tribes or Oirat Confederacy, which lasted from 1399 to 1634, was a confederation of the Oirat tribes, which marked the rise of the Western Mongols in Mongolian history.
January 1413: Bushahr, also spelt as 'Bashahr' and 'Bussahir' or 'Bushair' was a princely state in India during the British Raj. It was located in the hilly western Himalaya promontory bordering Tibet in the northern part of colonial Punjab region.
January 1429: Abu'l-Khayr Khan founded the Uzbek Khanate.
January 1466: In 1465, Yunus faced a rebellion by Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat, who seized Yarkand and Khotan.
January 1481: In 1480, Yunus, a prominent figure in Moghulistan, captured Hami from Kara Del, a tributary of the Ming dynasty. A Ming army attempted to expel the Moghuls from the city but was unsuccessful in capturing them.
January 1483: In 1482, Hami was restored to Kara Del under Qanšin.
January 1487: When Yunus died in 1486, his realm was divided between the Yarkent Khanate, ruled by Mahmud Khan in the west, and the Turpan Khanate, ruled by Ahmad Alaq in the northeast.
January 1487: When Moghulistan ruler Yunus died in 1486, his realm was divided between the Yarkent Khanate, ruled by Mahmud Khan in the west, and the Turpan Khanate, ruled by Ahmad Alaq in the northeast.
January 1504: The Dughlat of Kashgar, Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat plundered the cities of Kucha and Aksu.
January 1504: After the death of Ahmad, Mansur Khan was the last khan of a united Moghulistan from 1503.
January 1514: Mansur Khan from the Chagatai Khanate overthrew the Gunashiri dynasty and conquered the region of Kara Del.
Disestablishment
January 1515: Borders of Moghulistan (or Eastern Chagatai Khanate) at the time of its partition into three polities (Moghulistan, Yarkent Khanate and Turpan Khanate).
January 1515: The Yarkent Khanate and Turpan Khanate broke off from Moghulistan (the Eastern Chagatai Khanate).
