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Kublai Khan's fleet is virtually destroyed in an attempt to invade Japan.
A delegation sent by Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus to the Council of Lyon submits the Eastern Christian Church to the authority of the Pope, a diplomatic ploy to gain papal protection and avoid a repetition of the events of the Fourth Crusade. Because of violent opposition, leading to persecution and imprisonment of many Eastern Christians, the union of the two Churches never comes about.
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