High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1239
Hulagu Khan born in Mongolia
1239
The grandson of Genghis who would eventually sack Baghdad was born to Tolui and the formidable Nestorian Christian princess Sorghaghtani Beki. He would grow up between steppe and court, unusually interested in Persian astronomy and Buddhist philosophy for a Mongol prince. His mother's strategic maneuvering of her four sons into positions of power would shape the Mongol empire's next half century.
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Also in 1239 (3 other events on record)
- Mongols burn Chernigov · Europe · War
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.