BRIEF HISTORY OF MONGOLIA

The remains of Mongolian’s earliest inhabitants have been uncovered by archeological digs in the Gobi and other regions dating back nearly 750.000 years.

209 B.C - In the second millennium B.C the nomadic tribe, known as the Hunnu, founded the  first powerful Empire in Northeastern Asia and Shanui /meaning King/ governed it.

213 B.C - Great wall in China was built.

2nd-4th century AD - Xiang-bi state.

555 - Turkish state wins Joujan.

745 - Uigar state established.

10th-12th century AD - Various tribes of Mongolian origin lived in a vast area of land stretching from the great Gobi desert in the south to Lake Baikal in the north.

1162 - Birth of Chinggis Khaan

1206 - At Ikh Khuraldai Chinggis Khaan, the Leader of “All the people who live in a felt Ger” and who finally ended up the disintegration of 12th century Mongolia, founded the “Great Mongolian State”

1207-1226 - Chinggis Khaan conquered half the known world establishing the “Great Mongolian Empire”.

1227 - Death of Chinggis Khaan.

1229-1235 - Ogodei Khaan ascended to the throne.

1236-1242 - Bat Khaan’s led conquests to Europe.

1240 - “The Secret History of the Mongols”.

1252-1258 - Monkh Khaan’s conquests.

1260-1294 - Khubilai Khaan’s conquests.

1466-1504 - Batmonkh Dayan Khaan re-united Mongolia after Chinggis Khaan’s death.

1409 - Mongolia again begins to split up.

13th-15th century AD - In Mongolian history there have been 16 great Khaan’s and small 21 minor kings between 13th-15th centuries.

18th century AD - Mongolia was submitted to Manchu rule.

1755-1758 - Battle of independence by Amarsanaa, Chingunjav.

1911 - Mongolian independence from Manchu was declared with a theocratic government under the leadership of 8th Bogd Javzandamba Hutagt who came to the throne of the Bogd Khaan (King).

1915 - Mongolian limited autonomy was fully signed by Mongolia, China, and Russia in the Treaty of Khiakhta.

1921 - The people’s Republic of Mongolia was proclaimed after the victory of the Mongolian People’s Revolution. Since 1924 Mongolia had been the world’s second communist country.

1937-1939 - This period is recorded in the pages of history as political repression or purge period.

1962 - Mongolia became a member state of the United Nations

1981 - Spaceflight, first and only Mongolian flew into space.

1989-1990 - The Democratic Revolution was won peacefully and the country has changed from a centrally planned system to free market economy.

1992 - First parliamentary election, and the new constitution