Part 3 revised
1350 The Persian Khanate (Il-Khanatate) starts to disintegrate between different factions.
1351 Agadai Khan of the Rum converts to Ortodox faith adopting the name of Alexander I Xanade and the title of Emperor of the Rum. His court and most of the mongol court adopt byzantine uses.
1353 The Almohades invade and destroy the Almoravid empire threatening Hispanian territories in North Africa.
1355 Alexander I invades Anatolia defeating the Seljuk army near Ancyra.
1357-1365 Rodrigo IV of Hispania declares a crusade and invades the Almohade Empire. The crusade ends with the destruction of the Almohades. The victory increases the Hispanic national pride and it starts an era of intolerance over islamic and jewish minorities. Most of the Hispanic muslims are "invited" to abandon the Iberian peninsula and settle in the newly acquired territories.
1363 Chagathai Khan conquers the other Persian Khans creating the Timurid Empire. War between the Lithuanian and the Frank Khanates. The Lithuanians are defeated but the Khan of the Franks dies in the battle.
1365 The Timurids invade the Egyptian Sultanate.
1374 Khitan Khan of the Franks decides to convert to Catholicism and to adopt the title of King of Saxony. He is crowned in Turin by Pope Innocent IV.
1379 Rebelion of the islamic population in Morocco.
1381 The Timurids defeat an army of the Rum Empire, but they have to retreat after failing to take Constantinople.
1382 Scottish ships start exploring the African coast.
A Ming army defeats the Mongols in Yunnan.
1383 Rodrigo IV dies in campaign against the islamic rebels. His brother Enrique III assumes the Hispanic throne.
1387 Pope Innocent IV appoints Simon Haraldson as bishop of the new diocese of Nova Thule (OTL Terranova).
1385 Enrique III ends the Moroccan rebelion. The surviving muslim population is forced to convert or being exiled ("Act of Conversion"). The order is not fully obeyed but only a fraction of the islamic population remains.
The Hispanic king gives "Fueros" to all new christian settlements in Morocco, in order to attract settlers rumour of a miraculous image found in Marraketch spreads over Western Europe.
1398 Timur Lan invades the Sultanate of Delhi.
1402 Zhu Di ("Yaounle") becomes Emperor of China.
1404 Chagathai Khan dies while marching to the Middle Kingdom.
1405-1407 First expedition of Zheng He. Chinese protectorade over Sri Vijaya and Sri Lanka. His fleet reaches the coast of Yin-du.
1410 The Scottish reach the Gulf of Guinea.
1422 Zhu Di dies and his son Zhu Gaozhi cancels the Treasure Fleet program.
1431 Scottish sailor Angus McPherson reaches the Skeleton Coast by the Namib desert.
1432 The new Emperor Zhu Zanji decides to renew the Treasure Fleets.
1433 Zeng He dies after having performed seven voyages.
Songhai rebellion, the Kingdom of Mali is destroyed with some help from Hispania, that seizes part of the coast as payment.
1435 Hispania recovers from the "Act of Conversion" consequences and under Rodrigo III lives a new era of progress and tolerance. The Gotho-mudejar cathedral of Marraketch is finished.
1440 The Ethiopian Solomonid Kings continue their presure over the Egyptians defeating them with the help of Ming guns and ships. King Beide-Maryan signs a cooperation treaty with the Chinese Ambassador ceding them some lands aroun Cape Guardafu to found a colony there.
1443 Chinese colonies founded in Uo Zhu (Australia), Mal Ga Yi (Magadascar) and Fei Zhou (Somalia).
1450 Scottish and Chinese ships contact in the Cape region. The first enconter is unfortunately hostile. An small scottish fleet is wiped by the huge chinese warships. However the europeans learn the lesson and they will concentrate on faster, more manoevrable ships with better guns, while the chinese remain confident on their superior ships. The Cape region is colonized by the chinese.
(to be continued)