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Period: Jan 1, 1279 to Dec 4, 1368
Yuan Dynasty
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Period: Jan 1, 1279 to Dec 4, 1368
Islamic World
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Dec 4, 1287
Rabban Bar Sauma
Rabban Bar Sauma, a Nestorian Uyghur Turk from Beijing, travels to Europe in this year and hosted by Andronikos II Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire, Philip IV of France, and Edward I of England in hopes of forming an alliance to seize Jerusalem, then under the Muslim Mamluk Bahri dynasty. -
Dec 4, 1289
Franciscan Friars
Franciscan friars begin mission work in China -
Dec 4, 1299
Battles with Byzantine
Declaring an independent Ottoman emirate in 1299, Osman I afterwards led it in a series of battles with the Byzantine Empire. -
May 4, 1316
Guo Shoujing Dies
Guo Shoujing dies; among his life achievements were fixing the calendar year at 365.2425 (same as the Gregorian Calendar), building upon Shen Kuo's mathematical work on trigonometry by introducing spherical trigonometry, and engineered an artificial Kunming Lake in Beijing. -
Dec 4, 1325
Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta leaves Tangier -
Sep 4, 1330
Bailin Temple
Pagoda of Bailin Temple is completed -
Dec 4, 1331
Ottomans capture Nicaea
By 1331, the Ottomans had captured Nicaea, the former Byzantine capital, under the leadership of Osman's son and successor, Orhan I. -
Aug 4, 1352
Zhu Yuanzhang
Zhu Yuanzhang joins the Red Turban Rebellion -
Dec 4, 1362
Mosque
Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo Built -
Dec 4, 1366
Ottoman Capital Moved
Capital of Ottoman Empire moved from Bursa to Adrianople.
