The age of Fire 1250 - 1450
April 11 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd Dies.
June 12 1240 –
The Disputation of Paris begins at the court of Louis IX of France, where four rabbis defend the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's accusations of blasphemy. Resulting in a decree to publicly burn all available manuscripts of the Talmud.[2]
December 6 – Mongols Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
Sainthood Saint Maurice 'Mauritius' Legendary Moor leader of the Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century,
Peter III of Aragon, King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and King of Valencia is born.
1241
The Mongols overwhelm the feudal Polish armies of Sandomierz and Kraków
- April 9 – Battle of Legnica: The Mongols, under the command of Baidar, Kadan and Orda Khan, defeat the feudal Polish nobility, including the Knights Templar.
- April 11 – Battle of Mohi: Batu Khan and Subutai defeat Béla IV of Hungary. The battle is the last major event in the Mongol Invasion of Europe.
- April 27 – Battle of Sajo: The Mongols defeat Bela IV of Hungary.
May 10 – Battle of Cameirge in Ulster: The Milesian Irish septs of the Ó Dónaills from Donegal, the Ó Néills from Armagh and the Ó Dochartaighs of Connacht defeat the last Tuatha Dé Danann sept, the Meic Lochlainn of Tír Eoghain and Inishowen under Domhnall mac Muirchertaigh Mac Lochlainn. From now on the Kings of Tír Eoghain will all be of the Ó Néill dynasty, Brian Ua Néill becoming sole ruler.
July 15, 1244
Jerusalem is destroyed .
The Ayyubids invited the free-roaming Khwarazmian clans, whose empire had been destroyed by the Mongols, to reconquer the city. In the siege and subsequent fall of the city in August, 1244, the Khwarezmians completely razed Jerusalem, leaving it in ruins and useless to both Christians and Muslims
- 1246 The perihelion of the Earth's orbit coincides with the December solstice.
- 1247 The Thuringian War of Succession begins.
- 1248 August 15 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral is laid, after an older cathedral on the site burns down on April 30 (construction is completed 632 years later, in 1880
King Louis IX of France launches the Seventh Crusade, setting sail with an army of 20,000 toward Egypt.
1249 King Louis IX of France captures Damietta in Egypt, in the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade.
November 24 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapses, in one of the largest historical rock slope failures known in Europe.[10]
1250
The resulting differential between gregorian time and julian time, is roughly 13 days per year
for anythging up to 1000 years or more.
cold period possibly triggered or enhanced by the massive eruption of Samalas volcano in 1257[17]
February 2nd 1250,
After the death of Erik Eriksson, the eldest son of Birger jarl Valdemar I, is elected king of Sweden, and becomes the first Swedish king of the Folkung - House of Bjelbo
Singular Folkunge, plural Folkungar This "political party" fought for the ancient right of free men to elect
the kings.
April 6 – Battle of Fariskur: Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army, while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
October 12 – A great storm shifts the mouth of the River Rother 12 miles (20 km) to the west.
Notable Deaths
February
Erik Eriksson, king of Sweden 1222–1229
Sir William Longespée at the Battle of Mansurah, near Al-Mansurah in Egypt.
Guillaume de Sonnac, French Grand Master of the Knights Templar
December 13 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Notable Births
Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of Sicily
Jeanne de Montfort de Chambéon, Swiss ruler
Moses de Leon, Spanish compiler of the Zohar
December 13 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, dies, beginning a 23-year-long Great Interregnum
The Lombard League dissolves upon the death of its member states' nemesis, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
King Afonso III of Portugal captures the Algarve from the Moors, thus completing the expulsion of the Moors from Portugal.
The Naples Plague breaks out in the city of Naples.
January Henry IV of England quells the Epiphany Rising and executes the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury, and the Baron le Despencer, for their attempt to have son of Edward, the Black Prince, Richard II restored as king.
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January 7 – Philippe son of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria-Straubing, marries Isabella of Portugal.
3 days after the wedding Philippe III le Bon 'the good' founds the Order of the Golden Fleece.
March 23 – Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England is born
March 29 – The Ottoman Empire, under Murad II, captures Thessalonica after an eight-year siege.
May 23 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians, while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
June 27 – Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses is born.
July 11 – The Battle of Trnava: The Hussites defeat the Hungarian-Moravian-Serbian army.
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