Mongol Invasions Timeline

1205
to 1209
Mongol Invasion of China
Mongke Khan dispatched Kublai to the Dali Kingdom in 1253 to outflank the Song. The Gao faimly, dominated the court, resisted and murdered Mongol envoys. The Mongols divided their forces ...
1207 Mongol Conquest of Siberia
The Mongols had long maintained intimate relations with the peoples of Siberian forest (taiga). They called those in the forest "People of the forest" (Ойн иргэд). Many of them, such as t...
1211
to 1234
Mongol-Jin Dynasty War
Wanyan Heda's Jin army still had more than 100,000 men after the battle at Mount Yu, and the Mongols adopted a strategy of exhausting the enemy. The Jin troops had had little rest all the...
1218
to 1220
Mongol Invasion of Central Asia
Driven from China by the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, in 1124 some Khitans moved westward under Yeh-lü Ta-shih’s leadership and created the Kara khitan (Black Khitai, or Western Liao) Khanate bet...
1235
to 1279
Mongol Conquest of the Song Dynasty
Bayan of the Baarin, the Mongol commander, then sent half of his force up river to wade to the south bank in order to build a bridge across to take the Yang lo fortress .Three thousand So...
1258 Jan 29
to 1258 Feb 10
 Battle of Baghdad
In 1258, a Mongol army numbering between 120,000 and 150,000 soldiers laid siege to and sacked Baghdad, then the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and the center of Islamic power. The M...