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February 2011
1270
1270
thumb|The cathedral atop the Rock of Cashel in Ireland was completed in 1270.Year 1270 (MCCLXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1270th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 270th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 13th century, and the 1st year of the 1270s decade.
Events
Africa
The Eighth Crusade
Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade, in an attempt to recapture the Crusader States from the Mamluk sultan Baibars; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis.https://books.google.com/books?id=RAbaJ3EbWjUC&q=eighth+crusade+1270&pg=PA14 The 14th and Final Crusade to the Middle East: Crusades from the 11th Century to the 21st Century Conte Joseph J. AuthorHouse 2008 9781452055466 Bloomington, IN 14 en
August 25 – King Louis IX of France dies while besieging the city of Tunis, possibly due to poor quality drinking water.https://books.google.com/books?id=59A6AgAAQBAJ&q=Louis+IX+1270&pg=PT94 The Sanctity of Louis IX: Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres of Beaulieu Geoffrey of Chartres William Cornell University Press 2013 9780801469138 Gaposchkin M. Cecilia Ithaca and London 10 en Field Larry F. Field Sean L.
October 30 – The siege of Tunis and the Eighth Crusade end, through an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (Louis IX's brother) and Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Khalif of Tunis.https://books.google.com/books?id=MFfrBgAAQBAJ&q=1270+siege+of+tunis&pg=PA140 Religion and Violence: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present Ross Jeffrey Ian Routledge 2015 9781317461098 London and New York 140 en
Other events
August 10 (10 Nehasé 1262) – Yekuno Amlak overthrows the Ethiopian Zagwe dynasty, claims the imperial throne and establishes the Solomonic Dynasty, which will last until 1974.https://books.google.com/books?id=jO-HDgAAQBAJ&q=Yekuno+Amlak+1270&pg=PA397 Religious Freedom and Religious Pluralism in Africa: Prospects and Limitations Halibo Gidey Seyoum AFRICAN SUN MeDIA 2016 9781928357032 Coertzen Pieter Stellenbosch, South Africa 397 en Law, Religion and Pluralism in Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Complex Interaction Green M. Christian Hansen Len
Asia
In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion begins against the Goryeo dynasty, a vassal state of the Yuan dynasty.https://books.google.com/books?id=46OTBQAAQBAJ&q=Sambyeolcho+Rebellion+1270&pg=PA79 Korean History in Maps Injae Lee Miller Owen Jinhoon Park Hyun-Hae Yi Cambridge University Press 2014 9781107098466 Shin Michael D. Cambridge 79 en
The ancient city of Ascalon is captured from the Crusader States, and utterly destroyed by the Mamluk sultan Baibars, who goes so far as to fill in its important harbor, leaving the site desolate, and the city never to be rebuilt.https://books.google.com/books?id=orbpAAAAMAAJ&q=Ashkelon+1270 Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land Avi-Yonah Michael Stern Ephraim Prentice-Hall 1978 9780132751155 I Englewood Cliffs, NJ 124 en
The city of Tabriz, in present-day Iran, is made capital of the Mongol Ilkhanate Empire (approximate date).https://books.google.com/books?id=BkVWAgAAQBAJ&q=1270+Tabriz&pg=PA308 Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th - 15th Century Tabriz Pfeiffer Judith BRILL 2014 9789004262577 Leiden, Boston 305 en
The independent state of Kutch is founded, in present-day India.http://www.indianngos.com/districts/kutch.asp Welcome to Kutch www.indianngos.com 2019-02-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20170621181900/http://www.indianngos.com/districts/kutch.asp June 21, 2017 dead
A census of the Chinese city of Hangzhou establishes that some 186,330 families reside within it, not including visitors and soldiers (Historian Jacques Gernet argues that this means a population of over 1 million inhabitants, making Hangzhou the most populous city in the world).Chase-Dunn Chris Inoue Hiroku Anderson E.N. 16 August 2016 The Growth of Hangzhou and the Geopolitical Context in East Asia https://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows111/irows111.htm The Institute for Research on World-Systems Working Papers 111
December 15 – The Nizari Ismaili garrison of Gerdkuh, Persia surrender after 17 years to the Mongols.Daftary Farhad The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines 1992 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-42974-0 429 en
Europe
February 16 – Livonian Crusade - Battle of Karuse: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order decisively, on the frozen surface of the Baltic Sea.https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&q=Battle+of+Karuse+1270&pg=PA513 Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O Jaques Tony Greenwood Publishing Group 2007 9780313335389 2: F - O Westport, CN, London 513 en
September 1 – King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila has been recently discovered.February 2019
December – Crucial aspects of the philosophy of Averroism (itself based on Aristotle's works) are banned by the Roman Catholic Church, in a condemnation enacted by papal authority at the University of Paris.https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeQlAAAAQBAJ&q=1270+Averroism&pg=PA45 Historical Dictionary of Medieval Philosophy and Theology Brown Stephen F. Flores Juan Carlos Scarecrow Press 2007 9780810864535 Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements 76 Lanham, MA, Toronto, Plymouth 45 en
The Summa Theologica, a work by Thomas Aquinas that is considered within the Roman Catholic Church to be the paramount expression of its theology, is completed (year uncertain).https://archive.org/details/revivalscholast00perrgoog The Revival of Scholastic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century Perrier Joseph Louis 1909 Columbia University Press en
Witelo translates Alhazen's 200-year-old treatise on optics, Kitab al-Manazir, from Arabic into Latin, bringing the work to European academic circles for the first time.https://books.google.com/books?id=_xk2AAAAQAAJ&q=1270+Vitello+Alhazen&pg=PA136 A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of the Terms, and an Account of the Several Subjects, Comprised Under the Heads Mathematics, Astronomy, and Philosophy Both Natural and Experimental Also Memoirs of the Lives and Writing of the Eminent Authors, Both Ancient and Modern who by Their Discoveries or Improvements Have Contributed to the Advancement of Them Hutton Charles Rivington 1815 London 135 en
The Sanskrit fables known as the Panchatantra, dating from as early as 200 BCE, are translated into Latin, from a Hebrew version by John of Capua.https://books.google.com/books?id=XrZZAAAAMAAJ&q=John+of+Capua+1270 Harvard Oriental Series: Descriptive List Thereof, Revised to 1920: with a Brief Memorial of Its Joint-founder, Henry Clarke Warren Lanman Charles Rockwell Harvard University Press 1920 Cambridge, MA 5 en
Construction of the Old New Synagogue in Prague is completed.https://books.google.com/books?id=5azmtjTEQW4C&q=Old+New+Synagogue+1270&pg=PA489 A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe: A practical, anecdotal and adventurous journey through historic Jewish Europe, including kosher restaurants, cafes, synagogues and museums, plus cultural and heritage sites. Frank Ben G. Pelican Publishing 2001 9781455613298 Third Gretna, LA 489 en 1992
The cathedral on the Rock of Cashel in Ireland is completed.https://books.google.com/books?id=JkSk4euA-TEC&q=Rock+of+Cashel+1270&pg=PA460 Encyclopedia of Sacred Places Brockman Norbert ABC-CLIO 2011 9781598846546 Second I: A–M 460 en
Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall, donates to the Cistercian Hailes Abbey in England (his father's foundation) a phial held to contain the Blood of Christ, acquired in the Holy Roman Empire; this becomes such a magnet for pilgrimage that within 7 years the monks are able to rebuild their abbey on a magnificent scale.328158 Hailes Abbey 2020-09-13
The Chronicle of Melrose is ended.https://books.google.com/books?id=VB51DPui-TsC&q=Chronicle+of+Melrose+1270&pg=PA134 Britain and Poland-Lithuania: Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 Jamroziak Emilia BRILL 2008 9789004166233 Unger Richard The Northern World Leiden, Boston 134 en Border Communities between Violence and Opportunities: Scotland and Pomerania Compared
Births
March 12 – Charles, Count of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)https://books.google.com/books?id=LkRhncYY0aUC&q=1270+Charles%2C+Count+of+Valois&pg=PA141 My Kind of Man: With the History of the Gwinn, O?Connor, Kincaid, Richardson, Hiser West Virginia Families and Other Associated Lines and the Avery Family of Maine Hiser Patricia iUniverse 2001 9780595210008 San Jose New York Lincoln Shanghai 141 en
Theodore Metochites, Byzantine statesman and authorhttps://books.google.com/books?id=-ufxapiQewAC&q=1270+Theodore+Metochites&pg=PA34 The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul Ousterhout Robert G. Dumbarton Oaks 1987 9780884021650 Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 25 Washington, D.C. 34 en
Michael of Cesena, Franciscan theologian (d. 1342)https://books.google.com/books?id=SQogJS1WSOYC&q=1270+Michael+of+Cesena&pg=PA75 The Key to "The Name of the Rose": Including Translations of All Non-English Passages Haft Adele J. White Jane G. White Robert J. University of Michigan Press 1999 9780472086214 Ann Arbor 75 en
Cino da Pistoia, Italian poet (d. 1336)https://books.google.com/books?id=vWILTfX3078C&q=1270+Cino+da+Pistoia&pg=PA119 The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts Brundage James A. University of Chicago Press 2008 9780226077611 Chicago and London 119 en
Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Germany (d. 1323)https://books.google.com/books?id=486s3eMkLfgC&q=1270+Isabella+of+Burgundy+queen+of+germany&pg=PA575 Biographical Index of the Middle Ages Wispelwey Berend K. G. Saur Verlag 2011 9783110914160 Munich 575 en
Ma Zhiyuan, Chinese poethttps://books.google.com/books?id=97FjAAAAMAAJ&q=1270+Ma+Zhiyuan Female Suicide in Chinese Drama: Selected Plays from the Yuan Dynasty to the Cultural Revolution Taylor Julia C. University of Wisconsin 1990 Madison 40 en
Namdev, Marathi saint and poet (d. 1350)https://books.google.com/books?id=WVQrKJbJ2JIC&q=1270+Namdev&pg=PA43 Bhakti Poetry in Medieval India: Its Inception, Cultural Encounter and Impact Sadarangani Neeti M. Sarup & Sons 2004 9788176254366 New Delhi 43 en
approximate – William Wallace, Scottish patriothttps://books.google.com/books?id=-WykCAAAQBAJ&q=1270+William+Wallace&pg=PT15 Great Scottish Heroes - Fifty Scots Who Shaped the World Pearson Stuart John Blake Publishing 2015 9781784186135 London 8 en
Deaths
January 18 – Saint Margaret of Hungary (b. 1242)https://books.google.com/books?id=73NKDwAAQBAJ&q=1270+death The Oldest Legend: Acts of the Canonization Process, and Miracles of Saint Margaret of Hungary Csepregi Ildikó Central European University Press 2018 9789633862186 Csepregi Ildikó Central European Medieval Texts Budapest, New York 31 en Csepregi Ildikó Preface to the Text Recording Margaret's Miracles Klaniczay Gábor Péterfi Bence Flanigan Clifford Perraud Louis
February 23 – Saint Isabelle of France, French princess and saint (b. 1225)https://books.google.com/books?id=9Okq5YXXkHkC&q=1270+Saint+Isabelle+of+France&pg=PA19 Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500 Mews Constant J. Springer Science & Business Media 2011 9789400705296 Green Karen The New Synthese Historical Library Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York 19 en The "Speculum dominarum" ("Miroir des dames") and Transformations of the Literature of Instruction for Women in the Early Fourteenth Century Mews Constant J.
March 17 – Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyrehttps://books.google.com/books?id=EE1YDwAAQBAJ&q=Philip+of+Montfort%2C+Lord+of+Tyre+1270&pg=PA165 The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Mediterranean History Lower Michael Oxford University Press 2018 9780191061837 Oxford 165 en
May 3 – Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)https://books.google.com/books?id=YuAzDwAAQBAJ&q=Bela+IV+of+hungary+1270&pg=PA106 Transylvania in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century: The Rise of the Congregational System Salagean Tudor BRILL 2016 9789004311343 East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 450 - 1450 37 Leiden, Boston 106 en
July 9 – Stephen Báncsa, Hungarian cardinal (b. c. 1205)https://books.google.com/books?id=Y214Oo0uK-oC&q=1270&pg=PA18 Carreiras Eclesiásticas no Ocidente Cristão (séc. XII-XIV) Kosta László Centro de Estudos de História - Universidade Católica Portuguesa 2007 9789728361266 Lisbon 18 en Análise Prosopográfica Dos Cónegos Dos Cabidos Catedralícios Húngaros Na Idade Média (1200-1350): Conclusões
July 18 – Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterburyhttps://books.google.com/books?id=fUqcAQAAQBAJ&q=Boniface+of+Savoy+1270&pg=PA226 The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Cross The Late F. L. Cross Frank Leslie Livingstone Elizabeth A. Oxford University Press 2005 9780192802903 Third Oxford New York 226 en
August 25
King Louis IX of France (b. 1214)https://archive.org/details/makingofsaintlou00gapo registration 1270 Louis IX. The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages Gaposchkin Marianne Cecilia Cornell University Press 2008 9780801445507 Ithaca, London 25 en
Alphonso of Brienne (b. c. 1225)https://books.google.com/books?id=IulTPcYlR-IC&q=1270+Alphonso+of+Brienne The Court and Household of Eleanor of Castile in 1290: An Edition of British Library, Additional Manuscript 35294 with Introduction and Notes Parsons John Carmi Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 1977 9780888440372 Toronto 107 en
September 24 – Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castreshttps://books.google.com/books?id=qgQ8C10Ut4QC&q=1270+Philip+of+Montfort%2C+Lord+of+Castres&pg=PR25 Simon de Montfort Maddicott J. R. Cambridge University Press 2001 9780521376365 Cambridge, New York xxv en 1994
December 4 – Theobald II of Navarre (Theobald V of Champagne) (b. c. 1238)https://books.google.com/books?id=53I5AAAAIAAJ&q=1270+Theobald+II+of+Navarre&pg=PA776 Cambridge Medieval History, Shorter Previté-Orton C. W. Cambridge University Press 1978 9780521099776 2: The Twelfth Century to the Renaissance Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne 776 en 1952
David VII Ulu, King of Georgia (b. 1215)https://books.google.com/books?id=eE2pDLgibVoC&q=1270+David+Ulu&pg=PA72 Circassian History Natho Kadir I. Xlibris Corporation 2009 9781465316998 Bloomington, IN 72 en
Ibn Abi Usaibia, Syrian Arab medical historian (b. 1203)https://books.google.com/books?id=q0IIpnov0BsC&q=1270+Ibn+Abi+Usaibia&pg=PA200 A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine Aydin Sami Horatius Press 2016 9781888456042 Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus 24 Leiden, Boston 200 en 1996
Isaac ben Moses of Vienna, Jewish rabbi and scholar (b. 1200)https://books.google.com/books?id=LEMoAgAAQBAJ&q=1270+Isaac+ben+Moses+of+Vienna&pg=PA156 Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures Fishman Talya University of Pennsylvania Press 2011 9780812222876 Philadelphia 156 en
Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1212)Fairclough John 2008 Bigods at Walton Hall and their Successors http://suffolkinstitute.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/Suffolk%20Institute/2014/01/10/Volume%20XLI%20Part%204%20(2008)_Bigods%20at%20Walton%20Hall%20and%20their%20successors%20J%20Fairclough_405%20to%20425.pdf Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 41 4 418
Uli I of Mali, second mansa of the Mali Empirehttps://books.google.com/books?id=GsxaDwAAQBAJ&q=1270+Uli+I&pg=PT465 A World History of Political Thought Babb J. Edward Elgar Publishing 2018 9781786435538 Cheltenham and Northampton, MA en
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