Mansa Musa
1280–1337* · Person
Ruler of Mali at its peak; his 1324 hajj to Mecca with so much gold that he depressed prices in Egypt is the stuff of legend.
On these timelines: Master, Sub-Saharan Africa, People
Around 1280
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Majapahit Empire (1293)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Rumi's Masnavi (1258)
- Mongol invasion of Rus' (1237)
- Marco Polo travels to China (1271)
- Golden Horde (1242)