Moments in History
The events Wikipedia's editors chose for each day of the year — about 6,500 turning points, each at the day it happened.
Events 6531 totals
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Nov
1
1214
📜 Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Seljuq Turks captured the important port city of Sinope.
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May
31
1215
📜 A Mongol army under Genghis Khan captured Zhongdu (modern Beijing), the capital of the…
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Jun
15
1215
📜 King John of England and a group of rebel barons agreed on the text of Magna Carta, an…
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May
20
1217
📜 First Barons' War: English forces under William Marshal defeated French troops at the…
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Nov
6
1217
📜 King Henry III of England issued the Charter of the Forest, re-establishing the rights…
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Aug
31
1218
📜 Al-Kamil became the fourth sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt.
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Feb
10
1220
📜 Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire: the city of Bukhara was captured and looted…
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Nov
24
1221
📜 Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire: Genghis Khan defeated the renegade…
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May
31
1223
📜 Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus': Mongol forces defeated a Kievan Rus' army at the Battle…
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Jul
14
1223
📜 Louis VIII (seal pictured) began his three-year reign as King of France.
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Jul
27
1225
📜 Saint Mary's Church on Gotland, later to become Visby Cathedral (pictured), was…
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Jul
16
1232
📜 Muhammad ibn Yusuf, who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state…
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May
29
1233
📜 Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols entered and began looting Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin…
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Feb
9
1234
📜 Caizhou, the capital of the Jin dynasty, was captured by the Mongol Empire and their…
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Apr
1
1234
📜 Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, was defeated by knights loyal to King Henry III of…
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Sep
22
1236
📜 Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan…
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Sep
25
1237
📜 Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland signed the Treaty of York,…
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Jun
12
1240
📜 The Disputation of Paris, in which four rabbis defended the Talmud against Nicholas…
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Dec
6
1240
📜 After days of bombardment, Mongol invaders under Batu Khan breached the walls of Kiev…
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Mar
18
1241
📜 First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongol forces defeated the Polish armies of Sandomierz…
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Apr
5
1242
📜 Northern Crusades: In the Battle on the Ice, Novgorod forces led by Alexander Nevsky…
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Jun
26
1243
📜 Mongol conquest of Anatolia: Mongols achieved a decisive victory over the Seljuk Turks,…
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Dec
20
1248
📜 Attempting to form an alliance with the Mongol Empire, Louis IX of France met with two…
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Feb
16
1249
📜 King Louis IX dispatched André de Longjumeau as the French ambassador to the Mongol…
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Feb
8
1250
📜 Seventh Crusade: The Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt defeated and captured King Louis IX of…
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