The Mongols take Zhongdu
Genghis Khan captures the city that became Beijing
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Genghis Khan's Mongols besieged Zhongdu, capital of the Jurchen Jin empire, for more than a year and took it in 1215. The Jin court fled south to Kaifeng, and the city on the site of modern Beijing reportedly burned for over a month.
Wikipedia (English) · 13th century
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Magna Carta and the Mongol capture of Beijing happened in the same year. In 1215, while English barons were forcing King John to seal the charter, Genghis Khan took Zhongdu, the city on the site of today's Beijing. Share →
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — 13 years earlier
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — 11 years earlier
- 1215 Magna Carta — same year
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 8 years later
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 22 years later
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Genghis Khan (aged 53)
- Kublai Khan (aged 0)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 50)
- John Lackland (aged 49)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 33)
- Frederick II (aged 21)
- Rumi (aged 8)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 1)
- Jayavarman VII (aged 93)
- Fibonacci (aged 45)