The era of
Subscribe1250s
2 recaps across 2 years of the decade. Reconstructed from contemporary coverage, archives, and the public record.
Iraq · 1258 · Wars
1258Mongol Conquest of Baghdad
Hulagu Khan's sack ended the Abbasid Caliphate, slaughtered hundreds of thousands, and extinguished the Islamic world's foremost scholarly center.
1259 · Wars
1259Egyptian Hittite Peace Treaty Signed
Pharaoh Ramesses II and Hittite King Hattusili III's Treaty of Kadesh stands as history's earliest recorded formal peace agreement ending great-power conflict.
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