- In Korea , the Sambyeolcho Rebellion begins against the Goryeo Dynasty , a Puppet Government of the Mongol Empire .
- The ancient city of Ashkelon is captured from the Crusader States and utterly destroyed by the Mamluk sultan Baibars , who goes so far as to fill in its important Harbor , leaving the site desolate and the city never to be rebuilt.
- The city of Tabriz , in present-day Iran , is made capital of the Mongol Ilkhanate empire (approximate date).
- The independent state of Kutch is founded in present-day India .
- A census of the Chinese city of Hangzhou establishes that some 186,330 families reside within it, not including visitors and soldiers. (Historian Jacques Gernet argues that this means a population of over 1 million inhabitants, making Hangzhou the most populous city in the world.)
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