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Yuan Dynasty compared to Islamic World

  • Period: Jan 1, 1279 to Dec 4, 1368

    Yuan Dynasty

  • Period: Jan 1, 1279 to Dec 4, 1368

    Islamic World

  • Rabban Bar Sauma
    Dec 4, 1287

    Rabban Bar Sauma

    Rabban Bar Sauma, a Nestorian Uyghur Turk from Beijing, travels to Europe in this year and hosted by Andronikos II Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire, Philip IV of France, and Edward I of England in hopes of forming an alliance to seize Jerusalem, then under the Muslim Mamluk Bahri dynasty.
  • Franciscan Friars
    Dec 4, 1289

    Franciscan Friars

    Franciscan friars begin mission work in China
  • Battles with Byzantine
    Dec 4, 1299

    Battles with Byzantine

    Declaring an independent Ottoman emirate in 1299, Osman I afterwards led it in a series of battles with the Byzantine Empire.
  • Guo Shoujing Dies
    May 4, 1316

    Guo Shoujing Dies

    Guo Shoujing dies; among his life achievements were fixing the calendar year at 365.2425 (same as the Gregorian Calendar), building upon Shen Kuo's mathematical work on trigonometry by introducing spherical trigonometry, and engineered an artificial Kunming Lake in Beijing.
  • Ibn Battuta
    Dec 4, 1325

    Ibn Battuta

    Ibn Battuta leaves Tangier
  • Bailin Temple
    Sep 4, 1330

    Bailin Temple

    Pagoda of Bailin Temple is completed
  • Ottomans capture Nicaea
    Dec 4, 1331

    Ottomans capture Nicaea

    By 1331, the Ottomans had captured Nicaea, the former Byzantine capital, under the leadership of Osman's son and successor, Orhan I.
  • Zhu Yuanzhang
    Aug 4, 1352

    Zhu Yuanzhang

    Zhu Yuanzhang joins the Red Turban Rebellion
  • Mosque
    Dec 4, 1362

    Mosque

    Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo Built
  • Ottoman Capital Moved
    Dec 4, 1366

    Ottoman Capital Moved

    Capital of Ottoman Empire moved from Bursa to Adrianople.