Dates and events in bold font are those occurring in or affecting Uzbekistan. Dates and events in italics are those elsewhere. I hope this gives an indication of what was happening in the world at the same time as that happening in Uzbekistan.
1127 — The construction of the Kalyan Minaret originally completed in Bukhara
1162 — Temujin (Genghis Khan) born
1170 — Thomas Becket murdered
1215 — King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymeade
1219-1222 — Genghis Khan conquers Khwarezmid Empire which includes Bukhara and Samarkand
1221 — Venice signs trade treaty with Mongol Empire
1227 — Genghis Khan dies
1237-1240 — Mongols conquer Russia
1260-1295 — Travels of Marco Polo through Central Asia to China
1272-1307 — Reign of King Edward I of England
1305 — Sir William Wallace hanged, drawn and quartered after raising an army against the English King
1306 — Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scotland at Scone
1307-1327 — Reign of King Edward II of England
1314 — Robert the Bruce defeats English Army at the Battle of Bannockburn
1327-1377 — Reign of King Edward III of England
1336 — Temur (Tamerlane) born in Shakhrasabz
1337-1453 — Hundred Years War between England and France
1348 — Black Death reaches Britain
1377-1399 — Reign of King Richard II of England
1386-1388 — Three Year Campaign. Temur fighting in Persia and the Caucasus
1387 — Geoffrey Chaucer writes the Canterbury Tales
1391-1392 — Temur’s campaign against Tokhtamish of the Golden Horde
1394 — Ulug Beg, Temur’s grandson born
1398-1399 — Temur’s Indian Campaign
1399 — Construction begins on the Bibi-Khanum Mosque in Samarkand
1399-1413 — Reign of King Henry IV of England
1405 — Temur (Tamerlane) dies
1413-1422 — Reign of King Henry V of England
1420 — Construction on the Ulug Beg Madrassah originally completed in Registan Square, Samarkand
1424 — Construction of the Ulug Beg Observatory originally completed in Samarkand
1431 — Joan of Arc captured and burned at the stake
1455 — Wars of the Roses begin
1492 — Christopher Columbus discovers America
1526 — Babur wins the Battle of Panipat, just north of Delhi, India
1526-1530 — Babur crowned first Mughal Emperor in Delhi, India
1514 — The construction of the Kalyan Mosque originally completed in Bukhara
1600 — British East India Company established
1636 — The construction of the Shir-Dor Madrassah originally completed in Registan Square, Samarkand
1660 — The construction of the Tillya Kari Madrassah originally completed in Registan Square, Samarkand
1717 — Emperor Peter the Great sends armed expedition under leadership of Prince Alexander Bekovich to help Khan of Khiva
1757 — British are victorious at the Battle of Plessey in India
1773 — Warren Hastings appointed first Governor-General of India
1773 — Boston Tea Party heightens tensions in North American colonies
1775 — American War of Independence begins
1787 — First fleet of ships carrying convicts sets sail for Australia
1789 — French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille
1789 — The construction of the Djuma Mosque originally completed in Khiva
1789 — George Washington proclaimed first President of United States
1805 — Admiral Nelson defeats French fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar
1807 — Britain abolishes the slave trade
1809 — Tashkent annexed to Khanate of Kokand
1815 — Wellington defeats Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo
1825 — William Moorcroft (explorer) arrives in Bukhara
1831 — Alexander Burnes charts the River Indus and then reaches Khiva and Bukhara
1835-1854 — Great Trek by Voortrekkers in South Africa
1837-1905 — Reign of Queen Victoria
1837 — Colonel Charles Stoddart arrives in Bukhara in an attempt to build a political alliance between Britain and Bukhara
1839 — First Anglo-Afghan War
1839 — Russia fails in its attempt to establish a foothold in Central Asia with reverse at Khiva
1839 — Captain James Abbott sent by British from Kabul to meet with Khan of Khiva
1840 — First Opium War between Britain and China
1841 — Captain Arthur Connolly arrives in Bukhara to negotiate release of Colonel Stoddart
1842 — Stoddart and Connolly executed at Registan Square, Bukhara
1848 — Californian Gold Rush
1851 — The construction of the Muhammed Amin Khan Madrassah originally completed in Khiva
1853-1856 — Crimean War
1857 — Indian Mutiny
1861-1865 — American Civil War
1868 — Samarkand absorbed into the Russian Empire
1869 — Suez Canal opens
1873 — Gold discovered at Pilgrim’s Rest, South Africa
1876 — Battle of Little Big Horn
1878 — Second Anglo-Afghan War
1879 — British Army annihilated by Zulus at Isandlwana, South Africa
1879 — British Army in heroic defence at Rorkes Drift, South Africa
1899-1902 — Boer War in South Africa
1901 — Queen Victoria dies succeeded by Edward VII
1908 — Russian archaeologist discovers underground section of the Ulug Beg Observatory
1911 — The construction of the Sitorai Makhi Khosa originally completed by the Russians in Bukhara
1912 — Republic of China established
1912 — African National Congress founded
1912 — Sinking of the Titanic
1914-1918 — First World War
1917 — Russian Revolution ends Russian Empire
1920 — Russia takes control of Bukhara with the Emir fleeing to Afghanistan
1924 — Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic formed
1930 — Tashkent replaces Samarkand as capital of Uzbek SSR
1930 — Mohendas (Mahatma) Gandhi leads civil disobedience in British India
1931 — Mao Zedong proclaims Chinese Soviet Republic
1939-1945 — Second World War
1966 — Tashkent devastated by earthquake
1991 — Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union