1260

On 13 July 1260, the Livonian Order marched roughly 8,000 men and 190 knights to Lake Durbe to punish a Samogitian raid. It lost its own master, its Prussian marshal, and 150 knights in an afternoon, after its own allies walked off the field over a prisoner dispute.

On 5 May 1260, Kublai Khan was proclaimed Great Khan at Shangdu - the place Coleridge would later imagine as Xanadu. He went on to conquer all of China, found the Yuan dynasty, and invent fiat money. He also started the process that ended his grandfather's empire.