Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty
All of China falls under foreign rule for the first time
Genghis Khan's grandson Kublai proclaimed the Yuan dynasty, with its capital at Khanbaliq (Dadu), on the site of modern Beijing. In 1279 the Mongols completed the conquest of the Song, bringing all of China under foreign rule for the first time.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 13 years earlier
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 21 years earlier
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 56)
- Marco Polo (aged 17)
- Dante Alighieri (aged 6)
- Rumi (aged 64)
- Rudolf I (aged 53)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 46)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 32)
- Osman I (aged 13)
- Philip IV the Fair (aged 3)
- Henry III (aged 64)