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Mon rebellion (1740–1757)
The Mon rebellion of 1740 to 1757 was the revolt of the Mon people of Lower Burma against the Toungoo Dynasty, producing the independent Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom.
Mongol conquest of China
The Mongol conquest of China (1209–1279) was a seventy-year campaign by which the Yuan state unified all of China after destroying the Western Xia, Jin, and Southern Song states.
Mongol Conquest of the Merkits
The Mongol conquest of the Merkits was the campaign by which Temüjin, later Chinggis Khan, destroyed the Merkit confederation after they abducted his wife Börte around 1179.
Mongol conquest of the Naiman
The Mongol conquest of the Naiman was Temüjin's defeat in 1204 of the Naiman confederation of western Mongolia at Chakirmaut, enabling his proclamation as Genghis Khan in 1206.
Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai
The Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai was the 1218 campaign in which Chinggis Khan's general Jebe destroyed the Qara Khitai empire and executed the usurper Kuchlug.
Mongol conquest of Western Xia
The Mongol conquest of Western Xia was the destruction of the Tangut-ruled Western Xia empire by the Mongol Empire through raids from 1205 and a final war of annihilation in 1227.
Mongol Empire
Mongol Empire, founded 1206 by Temüjin (Chinggis/Genghis Khan), the largest contiguous land empire in history; decimal horse-archer armies, four successor khanates after 1261-2, Pax Mongolica trade era.
Mongol invasion of Europe
Mongol invasion of Europe: the 1223 Kalka raid and the Great Western Campaign of 1236–1242 under Batu Khan and Subutai, conquering Rus', Poland, and Hungary before the debated 1242 withdrawal.
Mongol invasion of Georgia
The Mongol invasion of Georgia was the Mongol Empire's two-stage conquest of the Kingdom of Georgia, by raids in 1220 to 1221 and full invasion from 1236, forcing submission by 1243.
Mongol invasion of Hungary
The Mongol invasion of Hungary, known in Hungarian as the tatárjárás, was a Mongol campaign from 1241 to 1242 that destroyed the royal army at Mohi.
Mongol invasion of India (1306)
The Mongol invasion of India in 1306 was a Chagatai raid sent by Duwa Khan and defeated by Alauddin Khalji's generals Malik Kafur and Ghazi Malik.
Mongol invasion of Java
The Mongol invasion of Java was a punitive naval expedition sent in 1292–1293 by Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty against King Kertanegara of Singhasari, who had maimed a Yuan envoy.
Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' (Монгольское нашествие на Русь)
Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' (Монгольское нашествие на Русь): Mongol conquest of the Rus' principalities, 1223 Kalka raid and 1237–1240 Batu-Subedei campaign, followed by Golden Horde tribute rule until 1480.
Mongol invasion of the Kipchak steppe
The Mongol invasion of the Kipchak steppe was the 1220–1224 campaign in which Jebe and Subutai crushed the Kipchaks and won the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223.
Mongol invasion of the Kipchaks
The Mongol invasion of the Kipchaks was the Mongol Empire's campaign to subjugate the Kipchak, or Cuman, nomads of the Eurasian steppe, carried out from 1221 to 1242.
Mongol invasion of Tibet
The Mongol invasion of Tibet began with a confirmed campaign in 1240 and led, through a religious-political alliance with the Sakya school, to Yuan rule until the mid-14th century.
Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria
The Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria was a series of Mongol attacks on the Muslim state of Volga Bulgaria from 1223 to its conquest in 1236, after which it ceased to exist as an independent state.
Mongol invasions and conquests
The Mongol invasions were a series of campaigns starting in the early 13th century that created the largest contiguous empire in history, concluding with Khubilai Khan's death in 1294.
Mongol invasions of India
The Mongol invasions of India were campaigns by the Mongol Empire and, after 1260, mainly the Chagatai Khanate, launched between 1221 and 1329 but never conquering the Delhi Sultanate.
Mongol invasions of Japan
Mongol invasions of Japan (Genkō, 元寇): two failed Yuan fleet attacks on Kyushu in 1274 (Bun'ei) and 1281 (Kōan) by Kublai Khan, resisted by Kamakura samurai and ended by the kamikaze typhoons.
Mongol invasions of Korea
The Mongol invasions of Korea, called the Yeomong War, were Mongol Empire campaigns against the Goryeo kingdom from 1231 to 1259, ending in Goryeo's submission.
Mongol invasions of the Caucasus
Between 1220 and the 1240s, the Mongol invasions of the Caucasus subdued the South and North Caucasus, conquering Georgia and Greater Armenia for Mongol control.
Mongol invasions of the Levant
The Mongol invasions of the Levant were a series of offensives by the Ilkhanate of Persia against Syria and Palestine, held by the Ayyubids and Mamluks, from 1260 to 1312.
Mongol Military Government
The Mongol Military Government (蒙古軍政府) was a Japanese-sponsored puppet regime in Chahar Province, China, headed by Prince Demchugdongrub from 1936 to 1937 and forerunner of Mengjiang.
Mongol-Oirat wars
The Mongol-Oirat wars were a long series of conflicts between the Eastern Mongols and the Oirats, fought mainly from the late 1300s into the 1600s.
Mongol–Tatar War
The Mongol–Tatar War was the conflict in which Temujin, the future Chinggis Khan, crushed the Tatar tribe of eastern Mongolia in the 1190s and annihilated them in 1202.
Monmouth Rebellion
The Monmouth Rebellion, June–July 1685: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate Protestant son of Charles II, tried to seize the English throne from Catholic James II, landing at Lyme with 80 men before defeat at Sedgemoor and the Bloody Assizes.
Morant Bay rebellion
The Morant Bay rebellion was an 1865 uprising in St Thomas, Jamaica, led by Paul Bogle, whose brutal suppression under martial law ended Jamaica's elected assembly.
Morava Offensive
The Morava Offensive (Bulgarian: Моравска настъпателна операция) was the Bulgarian First Army's assault on Serbia along the Morava valley during the Central Powers' conquest of Serbia in 1915.
Morean War
The Morean War (1684–1699) was a war between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire for the Peloponnese, Venice's only clear victory in their long conflict.