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1260
thumb|The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated. thumb|Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. thumb|Livonia in 1260Year 1260 (MCCLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Africa
October 24 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.https://books.google.com/books?id=gn8yDwAAQBAJ&q=1260+qutuz&pg=PA224 The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades Cobb Paul M. Oxford University Press 2014 978-0-19-061446-1 Oxford and New York 225 enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=BHlUDwAAQBAJ&q=1260+qutuz&pg=PA19 The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Mediterranean History Lower Michael Oxford University Press 2018 978-0-19-874432-0 Oxford and New York 21 en
The civil servant and bard longing for lost al-Andalus, Ibn al-Abbar, is burnt at the stake by the Marinid ruler.https://books.google.com/books?id=sx1bqgibKhQC&q=1260+Ibn+al-Abbar&pg=PA301 Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature Meisami Julie Scott Starkey Paul Taylor & Francis 1998 978-0-415-18571-4 London and New York 301 en
The Arba'a Rukun Mosque is completed in Mogadishu. The Arba'a Rukun Mosque (Arabic: أربع ركون), also known as Arba Rucun, is a mosque in the medieval district Shangani, Mogadishu, Somalia.Adam Anita Benadiri People of Somalia with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu 204–205
Asia
April – The Japanese Shōgen era ends, and the Bun'ō era begins (to February 1261).https://books.google.com/books?id=Dy-sAAAAIAAJ&q=1260+Sh%C5%8Dgen&pg=PA216 Lordship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura Soryo System Mass Jeffrey P. Stanford University Press 1989 978-0-8047-1540-9 Stanford, CA 215–216 enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=m34p1f93HogC&q=1260+Bun%27%C5%8D&pg=PA81 From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth Century Japan Conlan Thomas Oxford University Press 2011 978-0-19-977810-2 Oxford and New York 81 en
May 5 – Kublai Khan becomes a claimant to the Mongol Empire, after the death of Möngke Khan.
The Toluid Civil War begins between Kublai Khan and Ariq Böke, for the title of Great Khan.https://books.google.com/books?id=0StLNcKQNUoC&q=toluid+1260 Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia Allsen Thomas T. Cambridge University Press 2004 978-0-521-60270-9 Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town 22 en 2001
May 21 – Kublai sends his envoy Hao Jing to negotiate with Song dynasty Chancellor Jia Sidao, after the small force left by Kublai south of the Yangtze River is destroyed, by a Chinese army of the Southern Song dynasty. Chancellor Jia Sidao imprisons the entire embassy of Kublai. This slight will not be forgotten by Kublai, but he is unable to assault the Song, due to the civil war with his rival brother Ariq Böke.May 2019
September 3 – Battle of Ain Jalut in Galilee: The Egyptians defeat the Mongols, marking their first decisive defeat, and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire. Isa ibn Muhanna is appointed amir al-ʿarab under the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate.https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC&q=1260+Battle+of+Ain+Jalut&pg=PA283 A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East Tucker Spencer C. ABC-CLIO 2010 978-1-85109-672-5 Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO and Oxford 283 enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=DFO-eV9cQ0sC&q=1260+Battle+of+Ain+Jalut Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260–1281 Amitai-Preiss Reuven Cambridge University Press 2004 978-0-521-52290-8 Cambridge and New York 26–30 en 1995
The Chinese era Jingding begins and ends in 1264 in the Southern Song dynasty of China (last era of Emperor Lizong).https://books.google.com/books?id=40elDQAAQBAJ&q=1260+Jingding+southern+song&pg=PA757 A Social History of Medieval China Zhu Ruixi Zhang Bangwei Liu Fusheng Cai Chongbang Wang Zengyu Cambridge University Press 2016 978-1-107-16786-5 Cambridge and New York 757 en
Europe
July 12 – Battle of Kressenbrunn: King Ottokar II of Bohemia captures Styria from King Béla IV of Hungary.https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZNADwAAQBAJ&q=1260+Battle+of+Kressenbrunn&pg=PA175 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History Grant R. G. Book Sales 2011 978-0-7858-3553-0 New York 175 en
July 13 – Livonian Crusade: The Baltic Samogitians and Curonians of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania decisively defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Durbe. This leads the Estonians of Saaremaa Island to once again rebel against the Livonian Order.https://books.google.com/books?id=3amnMPTPP5MC&q=1260+Battle+of+Durbe&pg=PA320 Dictionary of Battles and Sieges Jaques Tony Greenwood Publishing Group 2007 978-0-313-33537-2 I: A-E Westport, CT and London 320 en
September 4 – Battle of Montaperti: The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs.https://books.google.com/books?id=1QAOAQAAIAAJ&q=1260+Battle+of+Montaperti&pg=PA161 A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of the Commune to the Fall of the Republic in 1531 Trollope Thomas Adolphus Chapman and Hall 1865 I London 154–160 enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=-frZAwAAQBAJ&q=1260+Battle+of+Montaperti&pg=PT36 Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification Lincoln Bruce Oxford University Press 2014 978-0-19-937238-6 Oxford and New York 21–24 en
September 20 – Second of the two major Prussian uprisings by the Old Prussian tribe of Balts against the Teutonic Order begins.
The Duchy of Saxony is divided into Saxony-Lauenberg and Saxony-Wittenberg, marking the end of the first Saxon state.https://books.google.com/books?id=X0VYDwAAQBAJ&q=1260+Saxony&pg=PA1266 Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures Gyllenbok Jan Birkhäuser 2018 978-3-319-66691-4 Science Networks Historical Studies 57 2 Cham, Switzerland 1266 en
War breaks out in the Valais (in modern-day Switzerland), as the Bishopry of Sion defends against an invasion by the County of Savoy.May 2019
Croatia is divided into two sub-regions ruled by ban: the Croatian region on the south and Slavonian region on the north, by King Béla IV of Hungary.https://books.google.com/books?id=iWd0mimd-dMC&q=1260+Croatia+ban&pg=PA261 Künker Auktion 137 – The De Wit Collection of Medieval Coins, 1000 Years of European Coinage, Part III: England, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Balkan, the Middle East, Crusader States, Jetons und Weights Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG Numismatischer Verlag Künker 2008 Osnabrück, Germany 261 enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=LvVbRrH1QBgC&q=1260+Croatia+ban&pg=PA22 The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest Fine John Van Antwerp University of Michigan Press 1994 978-0-472-08260-5 Ann Arbor, MI 22 en
By topic
Arts and culture
October 24 – The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France (the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site).https://books.google.com/books?id=QcNViPYPgLQC&q=1260+Chartres+Cathedral&pg=PA54-IA2 High Gothic Sculpture at Chartres Cathedral, the Tomb of the Count of Joigny, and the Master of the Warrior Saints Morganstern Anne McGee Pennsylvania State Press 2011 978-0-271-04865-9 University Park, PA 73 en Chapter Five: The North Transept Porch of Chartres Cathedral
Jacobus de Voragine compiles his work, the Golden Legend, a late medieval best-seller.https://books.google.com/books?id=rQnm3sNf4MUC&q=1260+Jacobus+da+Varagine&pg=PP17 The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints Ryan William Granger Princeton University Press 1995 978-0-691-00153-1 Vorágine Jacobo de Princeton, NJ xiii en 1993https://books.google.com/books?id=qmdjDwAAQBAJ&q=1260+Jacobus+da+Varagine&pg=PA121 Solitudo: Spaces and Places of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures Delaure Dominic E. BRILL 2018 9789004367432 Enenkel Karl A. E. Leiden, Boston 121 en Chapter 4: Concepts of Solitude in Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea Göttler Christine
The mosaic Christ between the Virgin and St Minias is made on the facade of Florence's Basilica di San Miniato al Monte.https://books.google.com/books?id=oXi0BgAAQBAJ&q=1260+Christ+between+the+Virgin+and+St+Minias&pg=PA164 The Rough Guide to Florence & the best of Tuscany Buckley Jonathan Jepson Tim Rough Guides UK 2009 978-1-84836-197-3 New York, London, Delhi 160 en
German musical theorist Franco of Cologne publishes Ars Cantus Mensurabilis, in which he advances a new theory of musical notation, in which the length of a musical note is denoted by the shape of that note, a system still used today.https://books.google.com/books?id=uJFxDwAAQBAJ&q=1260+Ars+Cantus+Mensurabilis&pg=PA59 Music in the Middle Ages: A Reference Guide: A Reference Guide Lord Suzanne Greenwood Press 2008 978-0-313-08368-6 Westport, CT and London 59 enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=ySQ49B5JyIgC&q=1260+Ars+Cantus+Mensurabilis&pg=PA89 Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut Peraino Judith A. Oxford University Press 2011 978-0-19-975724-4 Oxford, New York 89 en
Construction begins on the Dunkeld Cathedral in Perthshire, Scotland.https://books.google.com/books?id=-i8ZAQAAMAAJ&q=1260+Dunkeld+Cathedral Scotland: An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes Munro David M. Gittings Bruce Harper Collins 2006 978-0-00-472466-9 London and New York 175 en
Construction begins on the cathedrals at Meißen and Schwerin.https://books.google.com/books?id=R4DBAgAAQBAJ&q=1260+Meissen+Cathedral&pg=PA265 The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789–1914 Swenson Astrid Cambridge University Press 2013 978-1-107-46911-2 Cambridge and New York 265 en
Nicola Pisano sculpts the pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery.https://books.google.com/books?id=CurSh3Sh_KMC&q=1260+Pisa+pulpit+Pisano&pg=PA747 Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages Magill Frank Northen Aves Alison Routledge 1998 978-1-57958-041-4 II: The Middle Ages London and New York 747 en
Religion
The newly formed Sukhothai Kingdom of Thailand adopts Theravada Buddhism.https://books.google.com/books?id=985a1M7L1NcC&q=1260+theravada+sukhothai&pg=PA299 A Dictionary of Buddhism Keown Damien Oxford University Press 2003 978-0-19-157917-2 Oxford and New York 299 en
The advent of the Age of the Holy Spirit predicted by Joachim of Fiore, according to his interpretation of the Book of Revelation, chapter 6.https://books.google.com/books?id=VDE9DwAAQBAJ&q=1260+Joachim+of+Fiore&pg=PA243 A Companion to Joachim of Fiore Andrews Frances BRILL 2017 9789004339668 Riedl Matthias Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Leiden, Boston 241–244 en The Influence of Joachim in the 13th Century
Births
May 15 or July 25 – John of Castile, Lord of Valencia de Campos (d. 1319)May 2019
August 2 – Kyawswa of Pagan, last ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (d. 1299)https://books.google.com/books?id=EBQEDAAAQBAJ&q=1260+Kyawswa&pg=PA18 Maitreya Buddha in I-Kuan Tao Chen Joseph J. F. AuthorHouse 2014 978-1-4969-4659-1 Bloomington, IN 18 en
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Enguerrand de Marigny, minister to King Philip IV of Francehttps://books.google.com/books?id=-Pc2n2n7HVUC&q=1260+Enguerrand+de+Marigny&pg=PA77 A Treatise on the Alteration of Money: Sources in Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law Mariana Juan de Christian's Library Press 2011 978-1-880595-88-6 Grand Rapids, MI 77 en
Fatima bint al-Ahmar, Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (d. 1349)
Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (d. 1339)https://books.google.com/books?id=R9opAAAAYAAJ&q=1260+Henry+de+Cobham Dictionary of National Biography Stephen Sir Leslie Smith, Elder, & Company 1887 London 155 en
Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarchhttps://books.google.com/books?id=7Bq9DgAAQBAJ&q=1260+Matthew+III+Cs%C3%A1k&pg=PA397 The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia Antonín Robert BRILL 2017 9789004341128 Leiden, Boston 397 en
Meister Eckhart, German theologian, philosopher and mystic (d. 1328)https://books.google.com/books?id=YAYxzu8zqK8C&q=1260+Meister+Eckhart Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense Eckhart Meister Paulist Press 1981 978-0-8091-2370-4 The Classics of Western Spirituality Mahwah, NJ 5 enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=8FWa85vgoTQC&q=1260+Meister+Eckhart&pg=PA287 Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Aertsen Jan A. Taylor & Francis 1998 978-0-415-18715-2 Craig Edward New York and London 286–288 en
Guillaume de Nogaret, keeper of the seal to King Philip IV of France (d. 1313)https://books.google.com/books?id=zUsIBgAAQBAJ&q=1260+Guillaume+de+Nogaret&pg=PA217 A History of Western Public Law: Between Nation and State Aguilera-Barchet Bruno Springer 2014 978-3-319-11803-1 Cham, Switzerland 217 en
Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian (approximate date; d. 1330)https://books.google.com/books?id=bENTBQAAQBAJ&q=1260+Maximus+Planudes&pg=PA124 Creators of Mathematical and Computational Sciences Agarwal Ravi P. Sen Syamal K. Springer 2014 978-3-319-10870-4 Cham, Switzerland 124 enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=pZzix9xg7o8C&q=1260+Maximus+Planudes&pg=PA201 The Byzantine Grammarians: Their Place in History Robins Robert H. Walter de Gruyter 2011 978-3-11-085722-1 Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 70 Berlin, New York 201 en 1993
Khutulun, Mongol princess and warrior (d. 1306)https://books.google.com/books?id=rboWBAAAQBAJ&q=1260+Khutulun&pg=PA402 The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World Mayor Adrienne Princeton University Press 2014 978-1-4008-6513-0 Princeton, NJ 402 en
Deaths
April 28 – Luchesius Modestini, founding member of the Third Order of St. Francishttps://books.google.com/books?id=osC5DAAAQBAJ&q=1260+Luchesio&pg=PA242 Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses Ellsberg Robert Liturgical Press 2016 978-0-8146-4745-5 Collegeville, MN 242 en
May – Marie of Brabant, Holy Roman Empress, wife of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (alternative date is June)https://archive.org/details/isbn_9791576070917 registration 1260 Maria of Brabant. Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide Jackson Guida M. Jackson-Laufer Guida Myrl ABC-CLIO 1999 978-1-57607-091-8 Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO and Oxford 267 – 268 en
August 9 – Walter of Kirkham, Bishop of Durhamhttps://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91919 1260 Walter of Kirkham. Great Britain Illustrated: A Series of Original Views Moule Thomas C. Tilt 1830 London 11 enhttps://books.google.com/books?id=AkJO3TAxMtwC&q=1260+Walter+of+Kirkham&pg=PA292 The History of the University of Oxford Aston Trevor Henry Clarendon Press 1984 978-0-19-951011-5 I: The Early Oxford Schools Oxford 292 en
October 12 – Thorkill, Bishop of Reval. Bricka Carl Frederik 1903 Dansk Biografisk Lexikon. XVII. BIND Svend Tveskjæg - Tøxen Danish Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag Copenhagen 17 632818019 265–266 https://runeberg.org/dbl/17/ 30 July 2026
October 24 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
December 4 – Aymer de Valence, Bishop of Winchester (b. 1222)https://books.google.com/books?id=0I_gDQAAQBAJ&q=1260+aymer+de+lusignan&pg=PA92 Baronial Reform and Revolution in England, 1258–1267 Jobson Adrian Boydell & Brewer 2016 978-1-84383-467-0 Woodbridge and Rochester, NY 92 en
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Kitbuqa, Mongol military leader (executed)https://books.google.com/books?id=mrw8AAAAIAAJ&q=1260+Kitbuqa&pg=PA308 A History of the Crusades Runciman Steven Cambridge University Press Archive 1999 978-0-521-34772-3 III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid 305–314 en 1951
Sicko Sjaerdema, ruler of FrieslandMay 2019
Ibn al-Abbar, Andalusian diplomat and scholar (b. 1199)
probable – Franciscus Accursius, Italian juristhttps://books.google.com/books?id=E2CTAgAAQBAJ&q=1260+Accursius&pg=PT33 Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia Kleinhenz Christopher Routledge 2004 978-1-135-94880-1 New York and London 3 en
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