Golden Horde Timeline

Batu Khan establishes and rules the Golden Horde.

Multiple Mongol armies attack western Asia, Russia, Poland, and Hungary.

The Mongols invade Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia.

The Mongols defeat an army led by Henry the Pious, the Duke of Silesia, near Liegnitz (Legnica).

The Mongols defeat an army led by Bela IV, king of Hungary, at the Battle of Mohi.

Reign of Mongke Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire.

Reign of Berke over the Golden Horde.

Kublai Khan fights a civil war with his brother Ariq Boke for control of the Mongol Empire.

Golden Horde forces under Nogai defeat the Ilkhanate at the Battle of Terek.

Mengu-Temur rules the Golden Horde.

Golden Horde forces under Nogai invade the Byzantine Empire.

Nogai, the de facto leader of the Golden Horde, dies.

Uzbeg rules the Golden Horde and makes Islam the state religion.

Uzbeg shifts Golden Horde support from the Russian city of Tver to the rising power of Moscow.

Janibeg rules the Golden Horde.

Lithuanian forces defeat the Golden Horde at the Battle of Blue Waters.

A Russian army defeats the Golden Horde at the Battle of Kulikovo, seen as the turning point in Mongol domination of Russia.

Tokhtamysh rules the Golden Horde during a brief revival.

Tokhtamysh and the Golden Horde sack Moscow.

Reign of Ahmed, the last major ruler of the Golden Horde.

The Golden Horde is definitively defeated by the Russians at the Battle of the Ugra River.