Editing Timeline of Mongolian history (section)

== 13th century ==
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| 1205 || || [[Temüjin]] unites all nomadic tribes who settled around at [[Lake Baikal|Baikal Lake]] to China's Great Wall. 
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| 1206 || || Temüjin given the title [[Genghis Khan]] (Chinggis Khaan), first [[Khagan]] (Great Khan) of the [[Mongol Empire]].
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| 1215 || 23 September || [[Kublai Khan]], son of [[Tolui]] and grandson of Genghis Khan, is born.
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| 1227 || 18 August || Genghis Khan, 1st Khagan of the Mongol Empire, dies in [[Western Xia]] during the fall of [[Yinchuan]]  aged c. 65.
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| 1229 || 13 September || [[Ögedei Khan]], third son of Genghis Khan, becomes second Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
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| 1241 || 11 December || Ögedei Khan, second Khagan of the Mongol Empire, dies aged 55.
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| 1243 || || [[Zhenjin]], second son of Kublai Khan and later founder of the [[Yuan dynasty]], is born.
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| 1246 || 24 August || [[Güyük Khan]], eldest son of Ögedei Khan and grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes third Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
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| 1248 || 20 April || Güyük Khan, third Khagan of the Mongol Empire, dies aged 42.
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| 1251 || 1 July || [[Möngke Khan]], eldest son of [[Tolui]] and grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes fourth Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
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| 1259 || 11 August || Möngke Khan, fourth Khagan of the Mongol Empire, dies aged 50.
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| 1260 || 5 May || [[Kublai Khan]], son of [[Tolui]] and grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes fifth Khagan of the Mongol Empire. However, the [[Toluid Civil War]] begins as various members of the [[Tolui]] family line fight for the title of Khagan resulting in the [[division of the Mongol Empire]].
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| 1268 || || The [[Kaidu–Kublai war]] breaks out, which lasts until 1301 and deepens the fragmentation of the Mongol Empire. All later Khagans of the Mongol Empire were nominal due to the empire's division.
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| 1269 || || Birth of the [['Phags-pa script]], designed by [[Drogön Chögyal Phagpa]] for Kublai Khan.
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| 1271 || || Kublai Khan officially proclaims the founding of the [[Yuan dynasty]] with himself as first emperor.   [[Khanbaliq]] (modern [[Beijing]]) named the dynasty's capital.
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| 1273 || || [[Zhenjin]] designated Crown Prince by Kublai Khan.
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| 1294 || 18 February || Death of Kublai Khan (aged 78). By this time the Mongol Empire had already fractured into four khanates: the Yuan dynasty based in China, the [[Golden Horde]] based in Russia, the [[Chagatai Khanate]] based in Central Asia, and the [[Ilkhanate]] based in Iran, although the Yuan emperors held the nominal title of Khagan.
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| 1294 || 10 May || [[Temür Khan]], son of Crown Prince [[Zhenjin]] and grandson of Kublai Khan, becomes sixth Khagan of the Mongol Empire and second emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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| 1295 || || Enthronement of Ilkhan [[Ghazan]]. [[Islamization]] of the Ilkhanate.
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