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Marco Polo

Marco Polo Events

1254 Sep 15 Marco Polo is Born
The exact time and place of Marco Polo's birth are unknown, and current theories are mostly conjectural. However, the most quoted specific date is somewhere "around 1254", and it is gener...
1271 Marco Polo and his father begin Journey to Asia
In 1271, Marco Polo (at seventeen years of age), his father, and his uncle set off for Asia on the series of adventures that were later documented in Marco's book. They returned to Venice...
1274 Marco Polo reaches Cathay and meets Kublai Khan
Marco Polo travels to Cathay (China) Marco Polo lived from 1254-1324. Some years before St. Louis led his last Crusade there was born in Venice a boy named Marco Polo. His father was a w...
1275 Marco Polo appointed an envoy for Kublai Khan
When Marco Polo was about twenty-one Kublai Khan sent him on very important business to a distant part of China. He did the work well and from that time was often employed as an envoy of ...
1280 Marco Polo appointed governor
Khan liked the youthful Marco and conscripted him into service for the Empire. Marco served in several high-level government positions, including as ambassador and as the governor of the ...
1295 Marco Polo returns to Venice
Sometime around 1292 (1290 according to Otagi), a Mongol princess was to be sent to Persia to become the consort of Arghun Khan, and the Polos offered to accompany her. Marco wrote that K...
1298 Marco Polo serves as a gentleman-commander and is imprisoned in Genoa
Marco Polo did not return to Asia again. He entered the service of Venice in its war against the rival city-state of Genoa. In 1298 Marco served as a gentleman-commander of a galley in th...
1299 Marco Polo is released as a prisoner of war in Genoa
Upon their return, Venice was at war with Genoa, and Marco Polo was taken prisoner. He spent the few months of his imprisonment dictating a detailed account of his travels to fellow inmat...
1300 Marco Polo marries Donata Badoer
Marco Polo was finally released from captivity in August 1299,[3] and returned home to Venice, where his father and uncle had purchased a large house in the central quarter named contrada...
1324 Jan 8 Marco Polo Dies
In 1323, Polo was confined to bed, due to illness. On January 8, 1324, despite physicians' efforts to treat him, Polo was on his deathbed. To write and certify the will, his family reques...