1260

In 1260: 3 events across 2 regions, including Battle of Ain Jalut, Rebuilding of Chartres Cathedral and the High Gothic, Reign of Sultan Baibars.

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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
• Ancestral Puebloans build Cliff Palace at Mesa Verdec. 1190 – c. 1280 · North America
• 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
• Rumi composes the Masnavi in Konyac. 1258 – 17 December 1273 · Balkans and Anatolia
• The Mexica enter the Valley of Mexico and settle at Chapultepecbetween 1245 and 1280 – 1299 · Latin America
• Rise of the Hanseatic League1241–1356 · Western and Central Europe
• Pax Mongolicac. 1250 – c. 1350 · Central and Northern Asia
• 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