Muzaffarids

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Was one of the successors of the Ilkhanate in Persia. It ruled over Central Persia and Iranian Azerbaijan.

Establishment

January 1336: Mubariz ad-Din Muhammad (1314-1358) occupied Yazd in 1318, forced his recognition as governor, and declared his independence after the fall of the Ilkhane dynasty in 1335.

Chronology

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1. Timurid invasions

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 1382: Tamerlan ruled over much of Persian Khorasan by 1381.

January 1388: The Timurids captured Isfahan in 1387.

May 1393: Muzaffarids (Iran) conquered by the Timurid Empire.

1.1.Tokhtamysh-Timur war

Was a war between the Golden Horde and the Timurid Empire.

January 1384: After the death of Abu Sa'id in 1335, the last ruler of the Ilkhanid Dynasty, a power vacuum emerged in Persia. Persia's vulnerability led to military incursions from Persia's neighbours. In 1383 Timur started his military conquest of that country. In 1385 he captured Herat, Khorasan and all of eastern Persia.

1.1.1.Timur's invasions of Georgia

Was the military invasion of Georgia by the Timurid Empire.

November 1386: Tamerlan occupied Tbilisi and captured the Georgian king Bagrat V.

June 1387: When Timur was informed that Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde, was approaching Iran, he temporarily withdrew from the territories he had occupied in Georgia.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1342: The Muzaffarids captured Kerman.

January 1346: The city of Bam was besieged and conquered by the Muzaffarids in 1345. The Muzaffarids were a Persian dynasty that ruled in the region of Iran during the 14th and 15th centuries. The conquest of Bam was a significant event in their expansion of power in the region.

January 1354: Schiraz is acquired by the Muzaffarids.

January 1358: In 1357, the Khan of the Golden Horder Jani Beg of the Golden Horde conquered Chupanid-held Tabriz for a year, putting an end to the Ilkhanate remnant.

January 1358: Mubariz ad-Din Muhammad conquered Isfahan and Tabriz (1357), becoming the most important ruler in Iran.

January 1358: Mubariz al-Din, however, laid siege to that city also, and captured it in 1357. Abu Ishaq again surrendered, was sent to Shiraz, and was executed. The Injuid lands now fell into the hands of the Muzaffarids, who would hold them until the onslaught of Timur forty years later.