{"slug": "khagan", "label": "Khagan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khagan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187878", "qid": "Q187878", "description": "imperial title of Turco-Mongol societies", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [732, 1410], "span_label": ["732 CE", "1410 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Great Khan"], "related": [{"slug": "mongol-empire", "label": "Mongol Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kublai-khan", "label": "Kublai Khan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "baghdad", "label": "Baghdad", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ogedei-khan", "label": "Ögedei Khan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "karakorum", "label": "Karakorum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "song-dynasty", "label": "Song dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongol", "label": "Mongol", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongke-khan", "label": "Möngke Khan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chongqing", "label": "Chongqing", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khazars", "label": "Khazars", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 732, "year_label": "732 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine Emperor Leo III marries his 15 year old son Constantine to Tzitzak (later baptised as Irene), the daughter of the Khazar Khagan Bihar, as a sign of diplomatic unity between the Byzantine Empire and the Khazar Khaganate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808703#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "732", "revid": 1340808703, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1246, "year_label": "1246 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 24", "text": "August 24 – Güyük Khan, eldest son of Ögedei Khan, is enthroned as the 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (which is witnessed by a papal mission under Giovanni da Pian del Carpine) at Karakorum. Güyük reverses several edicts of his mother, Töregene Khatun, and orders Eljigidei, Mongol viceroy of Persia, to advance into Syria and prepare an attack on Baghdad.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356775338#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1246", "revid": 1356775338, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1259, "year_label": "1259 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 11", "text": "August 11 – While conducting a siege against the Song dynasty city known as Fishing Town in the province of Chongqing, China, the Mongol Great Khan, Möngke Khan, dies in the nearby hills. Persian, Chinese, and Mongol records have different accounts of how he died, including succumbing to an arrow wound received by a Chinese archer in the siege, dysentery, and even a cholera epidemic. His death sparks a succession crisis in the Mongol Empire, while his brothers Ariq Böke and Kublai soon convene their own kurultai to elect themselves as the next Khan of Khans, opening the path to a four–year-long Toluid Civil War from 1260 to 1264. In the end, Ariq Böke surrenders to Kublai.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362482647#Asia", "title": "1259", "revid": 1362482647, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1260, "year_label": "1260 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Toluid Civil War begins between Kublai Khan and Ariq Böke, for the title of Great Khan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366894029#Asia", "title": "1260", "revid": 1366894029, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1307, "year_label": "1307 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 10", "text": "February 10 – Temür Khan (or Chengzong), the sixth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (as well as the Emperor Chengzong of Yuan-dynasty China) dies at the age of 41 after a reign of 12 years. He is succeeded by his nephew, Külüg Khan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332007828#January_–_March", "title": "1307", "revid": 1332007828, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1410, "year_label": "1410 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – At the Onon River, the Chinese Army, under the command of the Emperor Cheng Zu, annihilates the Mongol forces of the Khagan Öljei Temür Khan, also known as Bunyashiri. The Khagan escapes and the Chinese troops pursue Arughtai, chingsang of another branch of the Northern Yuan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337551949#April–June", "title": "1410", "revid": 1337551949, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}