Events

Europe

• April 30 - King Louis IX of France released by his Egyptian captors after paying a ransom of one million dinars and turning over the city of Damietta.
  • October 12 - A great storm shifts the mouth of the River Rother 12 miles (20 km) to the west; a battering series of strong storms significantly alter other coastal geography as well (see Romney Marsh).
  • December 13 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, dies, beginning a 23-year-long interregnum known as the great interregnum. Frederick II is the last Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty; after the interregnum, the empire passes to the Habsburgs.
  • 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.
  • Valdemar I of Sweden, first Swedish king of the Folkung house, becomes King of Sweden
  • Albertus Magnus isolates the element arsenic. He also first uses the word oriole to describe a type of bird (most likely the golden oriole of Great Britain).
  • University of Valladolid is founded in Spain.
  • The Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy is converted from a pontoon bridge to a permanent, raised wooden structure.
  • Vincent of Beauvais completes his proto-encyclopedic work, The Greater Mirror.
  • The Parlement law courts of ancien régime France are established.
  • A plague breaks out in the city Naples (In what is now Italy), called the Naple's Plague

  Asia

  • A kuriltai is called by Batu Khan in Siberia as part of maneuverings to eventually elect Möngke Khan as khan of the Mongol empire in 1251.

  Africa

  • July 3 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
  • The Bahri dynasty of Mamluks seize power in Egypt.
  • The Walayta state is founded in present-day Ethiopia (see Rulers of Walayta)

  Births

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  • Pietro d'Abano, Italian physician, philosopher and astrologer (died 1316)
  • Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (died 1300)
  • Dmitri of Pereslavl, Grand-duke of Vladimir-Suzdal (d. 1294)
  • Pierre Dubois, French publicist (approximate date; died c. 1312)
  • Moses de Leon, compiler of the Zohar (approximate date; died 1305)
  • Giovanni Pisano, Italian sculptor (approximate date; died 1314)

  Deaths

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  • February 2 - King Eric XI of Sweden
  • February 8 - Robert I of Artois, French crusader (killed in battle) (born 1216)
  • February 8 - William II Longespee, English crusader
  • June 18 - Teresa of Portugal
  • August 9 - King Eric IV of Denmark (born 1216)
  • October 4 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
  • December 13 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1194)
  • Leonardo of Pisa, Italian mathematician
  • Matej Ninoslav, Croatian ban

  Eras and population estimates

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  The world population in 1250 is estimated at between 400 and 416 million individuals.

  Being a round number, the year 1250 is used to demarcate the beginning or ending of various eras or epochs. These include:

  • Judaism's acknowledged center of Jewish thought and learning:
    • End of the Geonim era in Babylonia (from 650)
    • Beginning of the Rishonim era (until 1550)
  • Medieval music - end of the Notre Dame school of polyphony

  1250

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