{"slug": "mongke-khan", "label": "Möngke Khan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6ngke_Khan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7521", "qid": "Q7521", "description": "Fourth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1209, 1265], "span_label": ["1209 CE", "1265 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mongol-empire", "label": "Mongol Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kublai-khan", "label": "Kublai Khan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "song-dynasty", "label": "Song dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sichuan", "label": "Sichuan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vietnam", "label": "Vietnam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yunnan", "label": "Yunnan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gansu", "label": "Gansu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alans", "label": "Alans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "principality-of-kiev", "label": "Principality of Kiev", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khan-title", "label": "Khan (title)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "siberia", "label": "Siberia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "batu-khan", "label": "Batu Khan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1209, "year_label": "1209 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 11", "text": "January 11 – Möngke Khan, Mongol emperor (khagan) (d. 1259)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362169644#Births", "title": "1209", "revid": 1362169644, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1238, "year_label": "1238 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – The Mongols under Batu Khan retire, leaving behind the ruined northern Rus' territories. He spends the rest of the year suppressing the last resistance of the Kipchaks, while his cousin Möngke (son of Tolui Khan) conquer the Alans and the northern Caucasian tribes. Later, Möngke makes a raid of reconnaissance as far as Kiev.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337076438#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1238", "revid": 1337076438, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1250, "year_label": "1250 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "A kurultai is called by Batu Khan in Siberia as part of maneuverings which will elect Möngke Khan as khan of the Mongol Empire in 1251.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360895476#Asia", "title": "1250", "revid": 1360895476, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1251, "year_label": "1251 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – Möngke Khan is elected as the fourth great Khan of the Mongol Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362481176#Asia", "title": "1251", "revid": 1362481176, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1254, "year_label": "1254 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 4", "text": "January 4 – William of Rubruck, Flemish missionary and explorer, is received courteously with an embassy at Karakorum. He is given an audience with Möngke Khan, who is loaded with gifts and letters from Louis IX.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1296887805#Asia", "title": "1254", "revid": 1296887805, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1257, "year_label": "1257 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Mongol forces under Uriyangkhadai conduct a campaign against local Yi and Lolo tribes in Vietnam. He returns to Gansu and sends messengers to the court of Möngke Khan informing him that Yunnan is firmly under Mongolian control. Möngke Khan honors and rewards Uriyangkhadai for his military achievements.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350011805#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1257", "revid": 1350011805, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1259, "year_label": "1259 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 11", "text": "August 11 – Möngke Khan of the Mongol Empire", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362482647#Deaths", "title": "1259", "revid": 1362482647, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1260, "year_label": "1260 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 5", "text": "May 5 – Kublai Khan becomes a claimant to the Mongol Empire, after the death of Möngke Khan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366894029#Asia", "title": "1260", "revid": 1366894029, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1265, "year_label": "1265 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In the first major battle in five years (since the Song dynasty Chinese pushed the forces of Kublai Khan back across the Yangzi River, after Möngke Khan's failed invasion in 1259), Kublai Khan engages the Chinese in Sichuan province. Kublai gains a preliminary victory, and war booty of 146 captured Song dynasty naval ships.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267064844#North_Africa_and_Asia", "title": "1265", "revid": 1267064844, "section": "Events › By place › North Africa and Asia"}}]}