1405 Death Timur/Tamerlan "Lenk", Crippled, Mongols monarch, dies at about 68 1380 Event Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols 1260 Event Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army 1259 Death Mongke, Mongols great-khan/grandson of Ghengis Khan, dies 1241 Event Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Bela IV 1240 Event Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev