Timeline (Balance Point)

Here is the Timeline for the Balance Point timeline. The timeline starts right at the point of divergance

Asia
1231 (POD) Ogedei Khan is killed by a group of unknown assasians while walking in his garden. Subutai, a brilliant Mongol general, leading the invasion of the Song dynasty is also killed

1232 Chagatai Khan becomes Great Khan of the Mongol Empire

1234 Chagatai Khan declares that he will decide the next ruler of the Mongol Empire. This causes a split in the Mongol Empire, with the Chagatia Khanate facing off against the Great Khanate

1235 Chagatia Khan gains control over the Blue and White Hordes through a series of brilliant campaigns

1238 Chagatia Khan invades the Great Khanate with thousands of steppe riders

1238 The Song Dynasty attacks the Jin dynasty with over 160,000 soldiers placed under the command of Mongkong, the Song dynasty's best generals. The Jin dynasty falls back quickly as they are still weak from the Mongol invasion years earlier

1240 The Song dynasty backs the Jin army to Caizhao, where they try to hold out. The Song armies are able to capture the city, and Ninkiassu commits scuicide, ending the Jin dynasty and giving control to the Song dynasty.

1241 Chagatia Khan engages the Great Khan armies in the Battle of the Khans, a pitched battle pitting large armies against each other. A succesful feint by Chagatia Khan's forces draws out and destroys the Great Khan armies

1244 Chagatai Khan declares himself the leader of all the Mongols, with the last resistance wiped out. Chagatai Khan wishes to prove himself as great as great as Ghengis Khan and decides to expand the empire

1249 the Song Dynasty secures an alliacne with the Mongols. The Song Dynasty will pay tribute to the Mongols every year for 50 years

1252 On the 20th year of reign as Great Khan, Chagatai Khan declares that he will invade Korea because of a refusal to pay their due taxes

1253 Mongol forces capture OTL North Korea despite heavy resistance. Mongol warriors secure a great victory over the Korean forces outside of Pongju

1257 Mongol invasion of Korea finishes, with Korea now completely under Mongol control.

1261 The Song dynasty expands its reach through a series of campaigns to the west

1265 Chagatai Khan creates a new division of the Mongol empire, with OTL Mongolia falling under the Great Khan, Korea and areas to the east being the Subutai Khan, in honor of the assasinated general. The other divisions are the Golden Horde and the Chagatai Khanate, same place as before the civil war.

1269 Chagatai Khan dies a well respected man, and leaves the Mongol Empire to a little known man called Cycantan Norei, who grew up as a scholor and is wise and just.

1271 Cycantan Norei, now Cycantan Khan, renews the treaty with the Song Dynasty.

1282 Cycantan Khan issues the Act of increased welfare, and plans for early hospitals and roads are built

1284 The Song Dynasty adopts the Act of increased welfare 

1293 Cycantan Khan dies in the night, without leaving a heir to the throne. The Mongol Empire starts to disintegrate.

1295 The Great Khanate declares independence from the other Khamnates

1299 The Song Dynasty ends its yearly payments to the Mongol Empire. The Golden Horde claims independence.

Europe
1239- 1250 A third conflict between the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy begins with the seige of Faenza

1242 attack by the crusaders in Novgorod is easily stopped by massive Russian forces, ending the Northern Crusades

1245 The Curonians set up their own country backed by Novgorod and Russia called Curonia. Many european nations are angered by this, as Curonia is a pagan country

1249 The Portuguesse Reqonquista ends with Portugal reconquering the Algarve

1248-1254 The seventh crusade ends in a failure and the Mamluks overthrow the Ayyubid Sultanate

1261 The Byzanites retake Constantinople

1972 The Ninth crusade ends with the Malmuks in control of the Holy Land

1289 Tripoli falls to the Malmuks

1291 The swiss confederation forms, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem falls, the last Crusader state

Asia
1301 The remaining Mongol empire disolves into smaller states. Now the Subutai Khanate, the Great Khanate, The Chagatai Khanate, and the Golden Horde are all individually governerd

1304 The Song dynasty, seeing their chance, invades the Great Khanate and reclaims land up to the former Jin border

1310 The Chagatai Khanate ends relations with the malmuk Sultanate after the Malmuks refuse to pay taxes

1321 The Chagatai Khanate invades the Mualmuks but decides to leave their gunpowder cannons and early rifles behind, prefering to do a hit and run attack

1325 The Malmuks defeat the Chagatai Khanate in the Battle of Kia-Din-Rrus using their own mounted archers

1331 The Song dynasty is invaded by the Great Khanate as the borers of the dynasty are pushed back to the former Song-Jin border

1335 The death of IIkan Adu Said leads to the loss of the norhtern parts of Persia, areas that he governed

1336 The Vijayanagara Empire is founded in southern India

1342 The Golden Horde loses the Mongolian Russian wars against Russian tribes and withdraws farther into Asia

1351 The Great Khanate and the Subutai Khanate sign an alliance against the Song dynasty and they both begin to invade

1354 The battle of the Yellow River is a disasterous defeat for the Mongol Khanates, and the invasion of the song dynasty ends

1356 Zhao Song becomes emporer of China. He is a weak and hated ruler, and plots begin to overthrow him

1362 The Chagatai Khanate raids the Malmuks, ddestroying much Malmuk property

1363 The Song and Ming navies fight at the Battle of Lake Poyang, one of the largest naval battles ever

1368 The Ming dynasty overthrows the Song dynasty

1372 The Ming dynasty invades the Great Khanate, pushing back the border again

1375 The Great Khanate is able to secure a victory in the Ming-Great Khanate wars, and it ends the war with the Ming dynasty occuping OTL southern Mongolia, the largest Chinese Empire to date

1386 The Chagatai Khanate raids the Malmuks a second time, this time less efective

1397 The Subutai Khanate begins to disintegrate

Europe
1314 Curonia begins a series of campaigns agaisnt the other Baltic tribes

1315 The Great Famine kills millions of people in Europe

1337 The English king Edward III claims the French throne, starting the Hundred Years War

1340 The Ottomon-Bulgarian wars begin

1347 The Black Death spreads across Europe and kills millions of people

1352 With Europe still recovering from the Black Death, Curonia conquers the Skalvians. Curonia now borers Prussia, and the ruthless warriors of Curonia demand conquest.

1357 Scotland wuins the Second Scottish war and remains independent from England

1378 The Great Schism of the West occurs, leading to three popes at one time

1389 The Ottomon Empire wins the Battle of Kosovo, with the Serbians having to few men to effectivly defend their territory

1397 The Kalmar Union is formed, determined to stop the spread of Curonia.

1400's
1403 The capitol of China is moved from Nanjing to Beijing

1405-1433 Chinese explorer Zheng He sails in the Indian ocean to India and East Africa

1423 The Golden Horde starts to disintegrate

1435 The Golden Horde breaks up into the Great Horde, the Siberia Khanate, and the Khanate of Khazan

1439 The Kazan Khanate is destroyed by the Great Horde. The Great Horde now controls all the area between the Graet Khanate and the Caspain Sea.

1442 Sejong the Great frees Korea from the deteriorating Subutai Khanate

1449 The Ming dynasty invades Manchuria, under control of the Subutai Khanate, and captures it

1451 Sejong the Great publishes a hagul of the Korean language