The Golden Horde is founded
A capital on the Volga; Rus' pays tribute for nearly 240 years
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Back from his European campaign, Batu founded the capital of Sarai on the lower Volga. His realm, later called the Golden Horde, ruled the steppe from the Danube to the Irtysh. Rus' princes received patents to rule from the Horde and paid tribute until the Great Stand on the Ugra in 1480.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 16 years later
Asia
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — 9 years later
- 1257 Samalas eruption — 15 years later
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 8 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 27)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 21)
- Frederick II (aged 48)
- Rumi (aged 35)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 28)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 25)
- Rudolf I (aged 24)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 17)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 3)
- Fibonacci (aged 72)