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==== East Asia ====
* Early &ndash; [[Battle of Khalakhaljid Sands]]: Temüjin, [[Khan (title)|khan]] of the [[Mongol]] tribe and the future [[Genghis Khan]], is comprehensively defeated by the forces of [[Toghrul]], khan of the [[Kereit]].<ref name=PR>{{cite book |last=Ratchnevsky |first=Paul |year=1991 |translator=Thomas Haining |translator-link=Thomas Haining |title=Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy |publisher=[[Blackwell Publishing]] |location=Oxford |url=https://archive.org/details/genghiskhan00paul/ |url-access=registration |isbn=978-06-31-16785-3}}</ref>
* Midyear &ndash; The [[Baljuna Covenant]], an [[oath]] of mutual fidelity, is sworn by Temüjin and a small group of companions.<ref name=PR/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Cleaves |first=Francis Woodman |author-link=Francis Woodman Cleaves |date=1955 |journal=[[Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies]] |title=The Historicity of The Baljuna Covenant |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=357–421 |doi=10.2307/2718438 |jstor=2718438 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2718438}}</ref>
* Late &ndash; In a 3-day battle at the Jeje'er Heights on the lower [[Kherlen River]], Temüjin defeats the Kereit and Toghrul is killed.<ref name=PR/><ref name=JW>{{Cite book |last=Weatherford |first=Jack |title=Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world |location=New York |publisher=Crown |year=2004 |edition=1st |page=60}}</ref>