High Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics
1277
Baibars dies after a lifetime of conquest
1277
The Mamluk sultan who had broken the Mongols at Ain Jalut, destroyed the Assassins' Syrian strongholds, and dismantled the Crusader states died in Damascus, reportedly after drinking poisoned kumiss intended for someone else. His career had reshaped the political map of the Middle East more thoroughly than any ruler since Saladin.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.