Jean Sibelius. This article is about the Finnish composer. For other uses of Sibelius, see Sibelius (disambiguation). Jean Sibelius (/sÉªËbeÉªliÉs, -jÉs/; Swedish pronunciation ), born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 1865 â 20 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods.
Marco Polo's journey was from 1271 to 1295, it took 24 years. He  traveled along the silk road, reaching Mongolia and China.
It was Marco Polo's father who first traveled the famous China's Silk Road. A couple of years after the original trip, Polo joined his father on a repeat trip to see Kublai Khan. What had been originally planned as a short visit turned into a 17-year residency in the Chinese Empire.