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Entangled histories

6 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · MNG LEFT · RUS RIGHT

1. 1219

   Conquest of the Khwarazmian empire

   Mongol armies invade and destroy the powerful Khwarazmian empire of Central Asia, opening the way to Persia and the Russian steppe and demonstrating the reach of the new Mongol military. Bukhara falls in February 1220, Samarkand in March 1220 and Urgench in April 1221; World History Encyclopedia dates the start of the attack to 1218.

   War & Rupture · from the Mongolia chronicle · Chinggis Khan and the Birth of the Mongol Nation · REFS 4 — Genghis Khan, Mongol empire, Facing the Wrath of the Khan, Mongol Empire

2. 1237-1240

   Mongol invasion and the fall of Kiev

   Batu Khan's Mongol army sacks the Rus' principalities, destroying Ryazan and Vladimir and storming Kiev in December 1240; the Russian lands become tributaries of the Golden Horde.

   War & Rupture · from the Russia chronicle · Kievan Rus' and the Mongol Yoke · REFS 2 — Russia, Batu Khan

3. 1480

   The Great Stand on the Ugra ends the Mongol yoke

   Ivan III, having stopped paying tribute, faces down the Great Horde at the Ugra River; the bloodless standoff is traditionally regarded as the end of Mongol overlordship and the rise of a sovereign Muscovite state.

   Independence · from the Russia chronicle · Kievan Rus' and the Mongol Yoke · REFS 2 — Russia, Ugra River, Battle of

4. 1921

   People's Revolution captures the capital

   Damdin Sükhbaatar's People's Army, with the Soviet Red Army, drives out the White Russian forces of Baron Ungern-Sternberg and takes Niislel Khüree in July 1921, installing a people's government.

   Independence · from the Mongolia chronicle · Independence, Revolution, and the People's Republic · REFS 2 — Damdiny Sühbaatar, Mongolia: Independence and revolution

5. 1924

   Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed

   After the death of the Bogd Khan in May 1924, the monarchy lapses and the Mongolian People's Republic is proclaimed in November, the world's second socialist state and a satellite of the Soviet Union.

   Formation · from the Mongolia chronicle · Independence, Revolution, and the People's Republic · REFS 2 — Mongolia: Independence and revolution, Bogd Gegeen Khan

6. 1937

   The Great Repression

   Under Choibalsan and Soviet NKVD advisers, the state carries out mass purges, killing tens of thousands of people, executing thousands of lamas, and destroying hundreds of Buddhist monasteries.

   Catastrophe · from the Mongolia chronicle · Independence, Revolution, and the People's Republic · REFS 2 — Mongolia: Counterrevolution and Japan, Mongolia: A Country Study