Marco Polo Timeline

Marco Polo is born

Sep 15, 1254

Marco Polo "The Man With A Million Stories" was born in Venice
His mother Nicole Anna Defuseh died during birthing Marco and Marco's Father Niccolo Polo and his uncle Maffeo Polo left to Constantinople about six years after his birth, leaving Marco with a caretaker.

Nicolo and Maffeo Polo head to Constantinople

Jan 1, 1260

Nicolo and Maffeo polo set sail to Constantinople on a trade mission. This would inspire Marco later to go with them

Nicolo and Maffeo Polo get an invitation to Cathay

Jan 1, 1262

Nicolo and Maffeo are invited to Cathay to meet Kublai, the khan of all the Mongols.

Polo brothers arrive at the court of Kublai Khan

Jan 1, 1266

Kublai Khan tells the Polos to head back to Venice with a letter to the Pope, requesting 100 missionaries to teach Christianity to his people, and oil from the lamp in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In the letter ther was a golden tablet that authorizes the Polos to get food and lodging throughout Kublai Khan’s domain.

Polo bothers arrive at Venice

Jan 1, 1269

the polo bothers arrive at venice finally meeting Marco and they stay at Venice eagerly waiting for a new pope to be elected

Marco Polo embrks to Asia

Oct 7, 1271

After giving the letter from Kublai Khan to Pope Gregory X, seventeen-year-old Marco Polo set out with Maffeo and Nicolo Polo with only two missionaries and the oil from the lamp. The missionaries did not finish the voyage because they thought the polo were crazy saying that Asia did not exist. The Polos were also carrying letters for the Mongol emperor from the Pope.

Polos arrive at China

Oct 2, 1274

The Polos spend the next seventeen years in China. Kublai Khan takes a liking to Marco Polo, and sends him on diplomatic missions throughout the empire. Marco later claims that Kublai Khan made him the governor of the city of Yangzhou for three years.

The wedding escort

Jan 1, 1292

The Polos wanting to return to their home asked Kublai Khan but he did not let them. Kublai Khan sends the Polos to escort a Mongol princess to her wedding in Persia. The Polos travel to one of the Chinese port city of Quanzhou to Sumatra, Sri Lanka, India and finally to Persia.

The journey home

Mar 16, 1294

The Polos had rested in Persia for two yearsand they had just started heading back for China when they herd that Kublai Khan had just deceased. So they decied to head to Venice whith plenty of loot with them

Marco arrives home

Jan 2, 1295

The Polos return to Venice and with them riches and stories of the East. The Venetians very skeptical still don't belive them.

War

Oct 5, 1298

Marco Polo is made "gentlemen commander" of Venetian galley. During that same year he was taken prisoner by Genoa peoples too. In there, he met a writer named Rustichello of Pisa and Marco Polo told him of his travels. A year later, he was released.After being released he marries and has three children. Marco never left Venice again.

Marco Polo is famous

Jan 1, 1307

In the year 1307 The travels of Marco Polo is released. Marco Polo was internationally famous, now everyone could follow in Marco's footstep.

Marco Polo's death

Jan 8, 1324

Marco Polo dies at almost 70 years old at his house in his bed. When asked if he wanted to say his stories were lies he said "I did not tell half of what I saw" those being his last words. He was buried in the church of San Lorenzo.Marco polo is said to have inveted eye glasses, ice-cream and spaghetti.