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1269
Year 1269 (MCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Gregorian calendar | 1269 MCCLXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2022 |
| Armenian calendar | 718 ԹՎ ՉԺԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6019 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1190–1191 |
| Bengali calendar | 676 |
| Berber calendar | 2219 |
| English Regnal year | 53 Hen. 3 – 54 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1813 |
| Burmese calendar | 631 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6777–6778 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3966 or 3759 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3967 or 3760 |
| Coptic calendar | 985–986 |
| Discordian calendar | 2435 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1261–1262 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5029–5030 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1325–1326 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1190–1191 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4369–4370 |
| Holocene calendar | 11269 |
| Igbo calendar | 269–270 |
| Iranian calendar | 647–648 |
| Islamic calendar | 667–668 |
| Japanese calendar | Bun'ei 6 (文永６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1179–1180 |
| Julian calendar | 1269 MCCLXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3602 |
| Minguo calendar | 643 before ROC 民前643年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −199 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1811–1812 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1395 or 1014 or 242 — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1396 or 1015 or 243 |
Events edit
By place edit
Europe edit
- June 16 – Battle of Colle Val d'Elsa: Guelph forces (2,200 men) led by King Charles I defeat the Ghibellines at Tuscany. After the battle, the Guelphs drive out their adversaries at Colle di Val d'Elsa, destroying their houses, and confiscating their possessions.
- June 19 – King Louis IX (the Saint) orders all Jews found in public, without an identifying yellow badge, to be fined ten livres of silver. He also confiscates goods from the Jewish population to fund the Eighth Crusade.
- September – An Aragonese contingent under King James I (the Conqueror) sails from Barcelona to the Holy Land but is caught in a storm and badly damaged. One squadron reaches Acre, but later returns to Aragon.
- King Ottokar II inherits Carinthia and part of Carniola, making him the most powerful German prince within the Holy Roman Empire; the empire lacking an emperor during the ongoing “Great Interregnum”.
England edit
- Prince Edward (the Lord Edward) obtains the right to levy a twentieth of the value of the Church's wealth to finance the Ninth Crusade. That sum turns out to be insufficient, and Edward has to borrow to reach his target.[1]
- John Comyn begins the construction of Blair Castle, in Scotland.
Africa edit
- September 8 – Berber forces of the Marinid Sultanate under Abu Yusuf Yaqub complete the conquest of Morocco and capture Marrakesh after a long siege, effectively ending the Almohad Caliphate. The last Almohad ruler, Idris al-Wathiq (or Abu Dabbus), is assassinated by a slave. The Marinids become the new masters of the Western Maghreb, Abu Yusuf Yaqub takes up the title of "Prince of the Muslims".[2]
By topic edit
Religion edit
- March – Ode de Pougy, French Abbess of Notre Dame aux Nonnains, and several associates who assist her are excommunicated.
- Opizzo Fieschi, Latin patriarch of Antioch, is exiled. Being displaced because of the East–West Schism of 1054 (approximate date).
Science edit
- Pierre de Maricourt, French mathematician and writer, performs a series of experiments with magnetic poles and proposes that a machine can be run forever in perpetual motion using the properties of magnets.
Births edit
- June 18 – Eleanor of England, English princess (d. 1298)
- July 10 – Duan Zong (or Zhao Shi), Chinese emperor (d. 1278)
- Alexander of San Elpidio, Italian friar and bishop (d. 1326)
- Frederick Tuta, German nobleman and regent (d. 1291)
- Huang Gongwang (or Lu Jian), Chinese painter (d. 1354)
- Louis III, German nobleman, knight and regent (d. 1296)
- Nichizō, Japanese Buddhist monk and disciple (d. 1342)
- Philip of Artois, French nobleman and knight (d. 1298)
Deaths edit
- July 7 – Saionji Saneuji, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1194)
- October 1 – Giordano Pironti, Italian aristocrat and cardinal
- October 27 – Ulrich III, German nobleman and knight (b. 1220)
- Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari, Moorish poet and writer (b. 1212)
- Albin of Brechin (or Albinus), Scottish prelate and bishop
- Baba Hyder Vali of Mulbagal, Persian disciple and mystic
- Constance of Aaragon, Spanish princess (infanta) (b. 1239)
- Ebulo de Montibus, Savoyan nobleman and knight (b. 1230)
- Geoffrey of Sergines, French nobleman and knight (b. 1205)
- Gregorio di Montelongo, Italian bishop of Tripoli (b. 1200)
- Guigues VII, French ruler (dauphin) of Viennois (b. 1225)
- Idris al-Wathiq (or Abu Dabbus), Almohad ruler (caliph)
- John Lestrange, English landowner and knight (b. 1194)
- Liu Kezhuang, Chinese poet and literary critic (b. 1187)
- Oberto Pallavicino, Italian nobleman (signore) (b. 1197)
- Vasilko Romanovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1203)
- William III de Beauchamp, English nobleman (b. 1215)
References edit
- ^ Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review. 8 (1).
- ^ Abun-Nasir, Jamil (1987). A history of the Maghrib in the Islamic period, pp. 103–118. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521337674.