Mongol invasion of Rus'
Russian principalities fall under the Golden Horde
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The army of Batu Khan sacked Ryazan, Vladimir and many other cities, and in 1240 Kiev. The Russian principalities fell under the overlordship of the Golden Horde for nearly two and a half centuries.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1215 Magna Carta — 22 years earlier
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 21 years later
Asia
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — 14 years later
- 1257 Samalas eruption — 20 years later
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 13 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 22)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 16)
- Frederick II (aged 43)
- Rumi (aged 30)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 23)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 20)
- Rudolf I (aged 19)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 12)
- Fibonacci (aged 67)
- Yuri II of Vladimir (aged 48)