Qalawun: Timeline

1279   Mamluk Mamluk

A mamluk was a slave [i] soldier [i] who converted to Islam [i] and served the Muslim [i] caliph [i] ... 

 sultan Baraka Khan and emir Qalawun of Egypt Egypt

[i] country in [[North Africa]... 

 invade Armenia Armenia

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; a revolt in Egypt while they are away forces Baraka to abdicate and allows Qalawun to become sultan.

1280   Syria Syria

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 attempts to secede from the Mamluk Mamluk

A mamluk was a slave [i] soldier [i] who converted to Islam [i] and served the Muslim [i] caliph [i] ... 

 sultanate of Egypt Egypt

[i] country in [[North Africa]... 

, but Qalawun defeats the rebels and keeps Syria within the Egyptian sultanate.

1281   Mamluk Mamluk

A mamluk was a slave [i] soldier [i] who converted to Islam [i] and served the Muslim [i] caliph [i] ... 

 sultan Qalawun defeats an invasion of Syria Syria

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 by Mongol Mongol Empire

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 Ilkhan Ilkhanate

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 Abaqa Khan Abaqa Khan

Abaqa Khan, the son of Hulagu [i] and Oroqina Khatun, a Mongol Christian [i]. ... 

 at the 2nd Battle of Homs.

1284   Mamluk Mamluk

A mamluk was a slave [i] soldier [i] who converted to Islam [i] and served the Muslim [i] caliph [i] ... 

 sultan of Egypt Egypt

[i] country in [[North Africa]... 

 Qalawun signs a ten-year truce with the Crusader city of Acre; he will violate the truce on pretexts in 1290.

1285   Mamluk Mamluk

A mamluk was a slave [i] soldier [i] who converted to Islam [i] and served the Muslim [i] caliph [i] ... 

 sultan Qalawun begins a siege of the Crusader fortress of Margat (in present-day Syria Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in the Middle East [i]. ... 

), a major stronghold of the Knights Hospitaller Knights Hospitaller

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 thought to be impregnable; he captures the fortress a month later.

1287   Mamluk Mamluk

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 sultan Qalawun captures the port city of Latakia Latakia

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 in present-day Syria Syria

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.

1289   Mamluk Mamluk

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 sultan Qalawun captures the County of Tripoli County of Tripoli

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 (in present-day Lebanon Lebanon

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) after a month-long siege, thus extinguishing the crusader state.

1290   Died