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| 1270 |
| | | Novgorod asserts its independence, electing its own city magistrate to take over the role of the local Russian prince | |
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| 1271 |
| | | Marco Polo, aged seventeen, sets off from Venice on his journey to the east | |
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| 1271 |
| | | The Mongol leader Kublai Khan chooses a name for his new dynasty in China, calling it Ta Yuan ('Great Origin') | |
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| 1272 |
| | | Edward I is in Sicily when he becomes king of England, on the death of his father, Henry III | |
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| 1273 |
| | | The period without a German king, known as the Great Interregnum, ends with the election of a Habsburg prince, Rudolf I | |
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| 1274 |
| | | The Mongol invasion of Japan in 1274 seems to confirm the doom and disaster foretold by the Buddhist prophet Nichiren | |
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| c. 1274 |
| | | Dante, aged nine, is overwhelmed by the beauty of Beatrice - a child a year younger than himself who later becomes his poetic inspiration | |
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| 1274 |
| | | Kublai Khan moves his administrative capital from Karakorum to what is now Beijing | |
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| c. 1275 |
| | | Mongol control over the entire breadth of Asia introduces a stability often called the Pax Mongolica, echoing the Pax Romana | |
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| 1275 |
| | | Marco Polo is presented to Kublai Khan in Xanadu, and according to his own account makes a very good impression | |
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