High Middle Ages · East Asia · Exploration
1292
Marco Polo leaves China
1292
After seventeen years in Kublai Khan's service, the Polos finally obtained permission to depart, charged with escorting a Mongol princess to the Ilkhan of Persia. They sailed from Quanzhou on a great Chinese junk, across the Indian Ocean, back toward the Black Sea. The journey home took over two years and cost the lives of hundreds of their fellow travelers to storms and tropical disease.
In context
Also in 1292 (3 other events on record)
- Majapahit founded on Java · Southeast Asia · Politics
- Arnolfo di Cambio designs Florence Cathedral · Europe · Culture
- John Balliol crowned King of Scots · Europe · Politics
Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in Exploration
Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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