Kamikaze, the divine wind

Name: Kamikaze, the divine wind
Start: 1281
Location: Takashima, Kyushu

1281 · Takashima, Kyushu · Asia · Nature

Typhoons twice scatter Kublai Khan's fleets off Japan

Kamikaze, the divine wind — Kikuchi Yoosai / (of the reproduction) Tokyo National Museum · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

In 1274 and 1281 Kublai Khan's fleets sailed against Japan, and both times storms scattered them. The typhoon of 1281 sank much of a vast armada off Takashima; the Japanese called it kamikaze, the divine wind.

State: Kamakura Shogunate

Wikipedia (English) · 13th century

Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Europe

c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — 19 years later

Middle East

1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 23 years earlier

Oceania

c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — 1 year earlier

Alive at the time

Kublai Khan (aged 66)
Marco Polo (aged 27)
Dante Alighieri (aged 16)
Rudolf I (aged 63)
Edward I Longshanks (aged 42)
Osman I (aged 23)
Philip IV the Fair (aged 13)
Mansa Musa (aged 1)
Orhan (aged 0)
Philip III the Bold (aged 36)