1241

In 1241: 3 events across 1 region, including Battle of Mohi, Battle of Legnica, Rise of the Hanseatic League.

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Processes that began earlier and continued through this period

• Chimor: the Chimú kingdom and its capital Chan Chanc. 900 – c. 1470 · Latin America
• Rebuilding of Chartres Cathedral and the High Gothic10 June 1194 – 24 October 1260 · Western and Central Europe
• Ancestral Puebloans build Cliff Palace at Mesa Verdec. 1190 – c. 1280 · North America
• John III Vatatzes and the revival of the Empire of Nicaeabetween December 1221 and December 1222 – 3 November 1254 · Balkans and Anatolia
• New schools of Kamakura Buddhism: Shinran, Dōgen and Nichiren1224–1253 · East Asia
• Mongol invasion of Europe1236–1242 · Eastern Europe
• Carving of the second Tripitaka Koreana1236–1251 · East Asia
• Reign of Mindaugasc. 1236 – between August and September 1263 · Eastern Europe
• The Thule migrate east across the Arctic to Greenlandc. 1200 – c. 1300 · North America
• Mapungubwe Hill, capital of the kingdom of Mapungubwec. 1220 – c. 1300 · Africa
• The Kingdom of Cusco: the Inca state before the empirec. 1200 – c. 1438 · Latin America
• Mississippian centres after Cahokia: Moundville, Etowah and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complexc. 1200 – c. 1450 · North America
• Mayapan, capital of Postclassic Yucatán1220s – between 1441 and 1461 · Latin America
• Great Zimbabwe, the stone capital of a Shona kingdom1200–1299 – c. 1450 · Africa