{"slug": "ogedei-khan", "label": "Ögedei Khan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96gedei_Khan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7519", "qid": "Q7519", "description": "Khan of the Mongol Empire (c.1186-1241) (r. 1229-1241)", "entries": 12, "years": 11, "span": [1186, 1246], "span_label": ["1186 CE", "1246 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mongol-empire", "label": "Mongol Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "genghis-khan", "label": "Genghis Khan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "jin-dynasty-11151234", "label": "Jin dynasty (1115–1234)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "baghdad", "label": "Baghdad", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "song-dynasty", "label": "Song dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yangtze", "label": "Yangtze", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "korea", "label": "Korea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kaifeng", "label": "Kaifeng", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "subutai", "label": "Subutai", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jurchen-people", "label": "Jurchen people", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1186, "year_label": "1186 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – Ögedei Khan, third son and successor of Genghis Khan (d. 1241)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344182420#Births", "title": "1186", "revid": 1344182420, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1220, "year_label": "1220 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Genghis Khan moves against the wealthy city of Urgench. He is joined by his eldest son Jochi, now conqueror of half a dozen lesser towns who attacks it from the north. Despite a stout defense, the city is taken after a 5-months siege. The Mongols have to fight for Urgench street by street, razing many houses. Jochi is given the right to loot the city for himself, but prefers to negotiate with the locals to avoid property damage. This is refused by Genghis, who removes Jochi from command and appoints Ögedei instead.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360552842#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1220", "revid": 1360552842, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1222, "year_label": "1222 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After the invasion and destruction of the Khwarezmian Empire in 1221, Genghis Khan returns to Mongolia, and a rebellion sparks in Helmand, to which the response is a large army led by Ögedei Khan sent into the region to put an end to the rebellion of Muhammad the Marghani, resulting in the killing of every man in Ghazni and Helmand, and the enslavement and selling of most of the women of the region.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371224827#Asia", "title": "1222", "revid": 1371224827, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1222, "year_label": "1222 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Ghurid dynasty capital of Firozkoh (in modern-day Afghanistan) is destroyed, by Mongol Emperor Ögedei Khan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371224827#Asia", "title": "1222", "revid": 1371224827, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1229, "year_label": "1229 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 13", "text": "September 13 – Ögedei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan is proclaimed \"Great Khan\" of the Mongol Empire, at a Kurultai council.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367488290#Asia", "title": "1229", "revid": 1367488290, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1231, "year_label": "1231 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August", "text": "August – Ögedei Khan orders the invasion of Korea. A Mongol army crosses the Yalu River and quickly secures the surrender of the border town of Uiju. The Mongols are joined by Hong Pok-wŏn, a Goryeo general, who takes their side with his subordinates numbering some 1500 families.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367488978#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1231", "revid": 1367488978, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1232, "year_label": "1232 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongol army led by Ögedei Khan and his brother Tolui begins the Siege of Kaifeng (1232), capital of the Chinese Jin dynasty. During the summer, the Jurchens try to end the siege by negotiating a peace treaty, but the assassination of a Mongol embassy makes further talks impossible. While the negotiations are going on, a plague is devastating the population of the city. In the meantime, supplies stored at Kaifeng are running out, and several residents of the city are executed on the suspicion that they are traitors.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367489153#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1232", "revid": 1367489153, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1233, "year_label": "1233 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 29", "text": "May 29 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongol army led by Ögedei Khan captures Kaifeng, capital of the Jin dynasty ('Great Jin'), after the 13-month Siege of Kaifeng (1232). The Mongols plunder the city, while Emperor Aizong of Jin flees for the town of Caizhou. Meanwhile, Ögedei departs and leaves the final conquest to his favoured general, Subutai.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367489040#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1233", "revid": 1367489040, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1234, "year_label": "1234 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty: The Mongol army led by Ögedei Khan captures the Jin capital at Caizhou, after the two-month Siege of Caizhou). Emperor Aizong of Jin abdicates the throne to Wanyan Chenglin, a descendant of the Jin imperial clan. After the Mongol and Song forces have breached the city walls, Aizong tries to escape, but commits suicide to avoid being captured. This marks the end of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) ('Great Jin') in China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364989988#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1234", "revid": 1364989988, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1236, "year_label": "1236 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty: The Mongols under Ögedei Khan penetrate deep into the Southern Song. The important city of Xiangyang, gateway to the Yangtze plain, capitulates to them.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361428601#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1236", "revid": 1361428601, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1241, "year_label": "1241 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 11", "text": "December 11 – Ögedei Khan dies after a drinking binge. His death halts the Mongol advance into Western Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362486166#Events", "title": "1241", "revid": 1362486166, "section": "Events"}}, {"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"}}]}