Kublai Khan
1215 – 1294 · 79 years · Khanbaliq (Beijing) · Asia
Grandson of Genghis Khan who conquered southern China and founded the Yuan dynasty; Marco Polo served at his court.
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Portrait: Araniko · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 50 years younger
- Rudolf I — first Habsburg king, who won Austria for his house, 3 years younger
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) — crusader king canonised as a saint, 1 year older
- Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 24 years younger
- Thomas Aquinas — theologian and philosopher, 10 years younger
- Frederick II — "Wonder of the World", polyglot emperor who regained Jerusalem without a fight, 21 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Alexander Nevsky — Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince, 6 years younger
- Daniel of Moscow — first prince of Moscow, founder of the Moscow line of the Rurikids, 46 years younger
- Yaroslav II of Vladimir — first Russian prince to receive a patent to rule from the Horde, 24 years older
- Yuri II of Vladimir — grand prince of Vladimir killed fighting the Mongols on the Sit, 26 years older
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, 66 years younger
Middle East
Africa
- Sundiata Keita — founder of the Mali Empire, 2 years younger
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 65 years younger
Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 39 years younger
- Genghis Khan — founder of the Mongol Empire, 53 years older
- Razia Sultana — Sultan of Delhi, 10 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1215 Magna Carta — aged 0, Europe
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — aged 8, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — aged 22, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — aged 25, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — aged 27, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — aged 35, Oceania
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — aged 36, Asia
- 1257 Samalas eruption — aged 42, Asia
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — aged 43, Middle East
- 1271 Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty — aged 56, Asia
- 1271–1295 Travels of Marco Polo — aged 56, Asia
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — aged 65, Oceania
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — aged 66, Asia
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 78, Asia