Timeline
1254 - 1324
Life of the Venetian explorer Marco Polo.
1260 - 1294
Reign of Kublai Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1271 - 1275
Marco Polo travels across Asia to China.
c. 1275 - 1292
Marco Polo serves Kublai Khan in Mongol Yuan Dynasty China.
1292 - 1295
Marco Polo travels by land and sea from China to Venice.
c. 1296
Marco Polo is captured and imprisoned by the Genoese. While in prison he writes his Travels, an account of his time in Mongol China.