Golden Horde Timeline
1375 C.E.
Having forced the re-unification of the warring factions of the former Chagatai Khanate, Timur the Lame invades the Khwarezm and Transoxiana regions of the Golden Horde's territory. The Vizier Qasim Beg appoints the generals Mamai and Tokhtamysh to combat the new threat. The Golden Horde would lose the cities of Kabul, Tashkent, and Samarkand.
1376 C.E.
Qasim Beg makes peace with Timur. And officially cedes the remaining Transoxianan territory to Timur, whom inflicted heavy losses against the forces of Mamai and Tokhtamysh. The Khan Abu Orda is but fourteen years of age.
1380 C.E.
The Khan Abu Orda is now eighteen, and makes a military pact with Timur the Lame, whom has by now forced the Muzzaffarids of central-easten Perisa to accept his overlordship. The Golden Horde's Jalayirid vassals in southern Persia wage a short-lived rebellion which is crushed inside of four-months. Abu Orda was present in the punitive campaign. Rebellions in Khwarezm and Astrakhan are crushed also.
1380 C.E.
Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania, after forging a military pact with the Germanic Teutonic and Livonian Orders, invades Novgorod, with the intention of "liberating the Rus" and converting them to the true Catholic faith. Timur-Malik and Toqtaqiyah of the White Horde are commanded by Abu Orda Khan to combat the incursion.
1381 C.E.
The Blue Horde General Mamai rebels against the Khan Abu Orda, and seizes control of Azerbaijan and the northern regions of Iran. He also allies himself with Husain II (OTL Husain I). Abu Orda, along with Tokhtamysh, leads a force of 75,000 to punish Mamai's insurgency.
1382 C.E.
Azerbaijan is reconquered by the forces of Abu Orda.
1383 C.E.
Abu Orda Khan successfully recaptures the Iranian cities of Tabriz and Maragha, before persuing the forces of Mamai to Tehran. In desperation, Mamai offers his alliegence to Timur in return for military intervention. Timur and Abu Orda negotiate over the ceding of Tehran back to the Golden Horde, while Mamai and his supporters may freely depart to Timur's realm. But Timur does not wish to relinquish Tehran. Both sides are at war before the year is out.
1384 C.E.
The Golden Horde's assualt against Tehran fails, and they pull back to Maragha during the spring. Abu Orda, however, successfully defends the lands around Maragha. They infect the water supply in every settlement by dropping dead sheep in the wells, and cutting off the water supply to all the major cities, including Maragha and Tabriz. Thousands of civilians leave northern Iran for either Baghdad or the Jalayirid lands. At Dorood, in Lorestan in June of that year, the Golden Horde forces, numbering 56,000, trounce the forces of Timur, whom were suffering from starvation and thirst. The night prior to the battle, Abu Orda sent Tokhtamysh with 4,000 to quietly depart, and hide in the hills, as Timurs troops slaked their thirst and that of their horses. Tokhtamysh would lead his warriors to ride up to the camp, and hurl torches at the tents, and killed some of the more wearied soldiers, and fled before Timur could bring the full brunt of his 70,000 strong army on them. The day of the Battle of Dorood, Abu Orda deployed 2,000 archers to hide on the wooded slopes overlooking the field in wait for Timur's Chagatai army. As the majority attacked the troops of the Golden Horde, composed of Tatar and Kypchak cavalry, alongside Turkic, Armenian, and native Persian infantry, the hidden archers ran to the cliff and loosed their arrows on the heads of the Chagatai soldiers. Hundreds of Timur's elite cavalry climed up the slopes, got off their saddles, and went in persuit of the archers. But Tokhtamysh led 1200 horsemen to gallop around the rear of the Chagatai army before charging at the 1800 strong retinue of Timur. This action caught Timur off guard, but he along with his men fought like a demon, before Abu Orda led another 700 to assist in the attack with Tokhtamysh. Just as Timur was about to call for his troops to disengage from the fight, a Tatar lance pierced the side of his mount, sending Timur sprawling to the ground. About six thousand foot soldiers of the Chagatai army ran to combat the enemy horsemen attacking their overlord, but Timurs persoanl guard were all but slain. Many among the remaining Chagatai, thinking Timur was done for, either fled or attempted to surrender. Timur was taken alive. And the remaining Chagatai forces in northern Iran were hunted down and eliminated. Abu Orda offered Timur life in return for peace and territorial concessions, but instead, feeling deeply shamed by his defeat, Timur demanded his own death. Abu Orda granted Timur his wish.
1385 C.E.
Abu Orda recaptures the Iranian territory around Tehran. He appoints Tokhtamysh as the Basqaq of Tehran. The Chagatai Khanate falls into disorder once again.
Abu Orda leads his forces to assist the White Horde forces of Toqtaqiyah against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Novgorod.