History
 

1271

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World

General

Population: 423 Million*
  • Exploration: Venetian explorer Marco Polo sets out for China (age 17 with uncle), visits Kublai Khan (to 1295)
  • Religion: End of three-year vacancy in the papacy as Pope Gregory X (Tebaldo Visconti Piacenza) elected

Asia

  • Marco Polo describes oil springs near Caspian Sea where fire-worshipers revere "eternal fires"

Europe

  • England: Famine and flooding
  • Ireland: Pestilence and famine

Middle East

  • Krak des Chevaliers (Crag of the Knights) fortress conquered by a forged note on a carrier pigeon (in Acre area)



 
 
 
 
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