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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1227. || Gregory IX Pope.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1228. || Frederick II embarked upon the Sixth Crusade, and acquired Jerusalem.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1234. || Mongols completed conquest of the Kin Empire with the help of the Sung Empire.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1239. || Frederick II excommunicated for the second time.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1240. || Mongols destroyed Kieff. Russia tributary to the Mongols.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1241. || Mongol victory at Liegnitz in Silesia.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1244. || The Egyptian Sultan recaptured Jerusalem. This led to the Seventh Crusade.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1245. || Frederick II re-excommunicated. The men of Schwyz burnt the castle of New Habsburg.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1250. || St. Louis of France ransomed. Frederick II, the last Hohenstaufen Emperor, died. German interregnum until 1273.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1251. || Mangu Khan became Great Khan. Kublai Khan governor of China.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1258. || Hulagu Khan took and destroyed Bagdad.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1260. || Kublai Khan became Great Khan. Ketboga defeated in Palestine.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1261. || The Greeks recaptured Constantinople from the Latins.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1269. || Kublai Khan sent a message of inquiry to the Pope by the older Polos.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1271. || Marco Polo started upon his travels.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1273. || Rudolf of Habsburg elected Emperor. The Swiss formed their Everlasting League.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1280. || Kublai Khan founded the Yuan Dynasty in China.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1292. || Death of Kublai Khan.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1293. || Roger Bacon, the prophet of experimental science, died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1294. || Boniface VIII Pope (to 1303).
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1295. || Marco Polo returned to Venice.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1303. || Death of Pope Boniface VIII after the outrage of Anagni by Guillaume de Nogaret.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1305. || Clement V Pope. The papal court set up at Avignon.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1308. || Duns Scotus died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1318. || Four Franciscans burnt for heresy at Marseilles.
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