Mongols shatter Hungarians at Mohi
April 11, 1241
Two days after Legnica, Batu and Subutai annihilated the Hungarian army of Bela IV on the Sajo River. The king fled to the Adriatic. Mongol outriders reached the suburbs of Vienna. Europe expected the end of the world and was inexplicably spared by a death two thousand miles away. Bela rebuilt his shattered kingdom with stone castles and German colonists, determined never to be caught unprepared again.
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Also in 1241 (3 other events on record)
- Ogedei Khan dies in Mongolia · Central Asia · Politics
- Mongols crush Polish-German host at Legnica · Europe · War
- Hanseatic League begins to take shape · Europe · Politics
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.