
April 22 – Elias of Cortona, Italian friar and vicar general.April 5 – Wilbrand von Käfernburg, German archbishop.April 3 – Richard of Chichester, English bishop (b.January 18 – Henry I ( the Fat), king of Cyprus (b.January 1 – Marino Morosini, doge of Venice (b.Nikō, Japanese Buddhist monk and disciple (d.John II ( the One-Eyed), count of Holstein-Kiel (d.Hugh II ( de Lusignan), Cypriot ruler and regent (d.Everhardt I, count of Limburg and Hohenlimburg (d.Eufemia of Greater Poland, Polish princess and nun (d.Eschiva of Ibelin, Outremer noblewoman and regent (d.Blanche of France, daughter of Louis IX ( the Saint) (d.Berengaria of Castile, Spanish princess and regent (d.Anna of Greater Poland, Polish princess and abbess (d.Amir Khusrau, Indian Sufi musician, poet and scholar (d.November 25 – Katherine of England, English princess (d.October 17 – Ivo of Kermartin, Breton priest and saint (d.
September 11 – Dmitry Borisovich, Kievan nobleman (d. March 1 – Mattia de Nazarei, Italian abbess and saint (d. Sligo Abbey, a Dominican monastery, is founded by Maurice FitzGerald, Norman chief governor of Ireland. The upper Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, the earliest important structure of Italian Gothic architecture, is completed in Assisi. Innocent IV offers the crown of Sicily, which he controls, to Richard of Cornwall and Charles of Anjou, both of whom refuse, and later to the 8-year-old Edmund, son of Henry III. October – Pope Innocent IV returns to Rome, after being deposed for 9 years by former Emperor Frederick II, whose clash forms an important chapter in the conflict between the Papal States and the Holy Roman Empire. Matthew Paris, English Benedictine chronicler, completes the major part of his Chronica Majora, a chronicle of English history. Kublai Khan introduces the baisha xiyue song and dance suite to the music of Yunnan. The population migrates to Siam (modern Thailand). Mongol forces under Kublai Khan conquer the Dali Kingdom (modern-day Yunnan). An advance guard (12,000 men) under Kitbuqa captures several fortresses in Quhistan. Mongol forces under Hulagu Khan begin a campaign against the Nizari Ismaili State. May – Louis IX ( the Saint) dispatches William of Rubruck from Constantinople, on a missionary journey to Karakorum to seek an alliance against Syrian and Egyptian Muslims. April 28 – Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intent to preach the Lotus Sutra and Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō as the true Buddhism, thus founding Nichiren Buddhism. April – An-Nasir Yusuf, Ayyubid ruler of Damascus, cedes Palestine, together with Jerusalem, Nablus and the coastline of Al-Sham to Aybak, Mamluk sultan of Egypt. Henry III meets with the nobles and church leaders to reaffirm the validity of Magna Carta in exchange for taxation. The Domus Conversorum ("House of the Converts"), a building and institution in London for Jews who had converted to Christianity, is established by Henry III. Meanwhile, Simon de Montfort returns from Gascony where he allies himself with the barons who oppose Henry. August 6 – King Henry III leads an expedition to Gascony, to repel a rumoured invasion from Castile.
October 10 – German imperial forces under King Conrad IV suppress the Sicilian rebellion and recapture Naples.July 6 – Mindaugas and his wife Morta are crowned as king and queen of Lithuania, ruling between 300,000 and 400,000 subjects.He forced him and his mother, Margaret II, to respect the division of Flanders and Hainaut. July 4 – William II, count of Holland, defeats the Flemish forces under Guy of Dampierre at Westkapelle.Prince Daniel of Galicia is crowned "Rex Rusiae" and becomes officially an Orthodox subject of the Papal States. Summer – The Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia becomes a vassal state to the expanding Mongol Empire.Meanwhile, King Louis IX ( the Saint), still staying at Acre, continues to administer the government. John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa, remains as bailli, and Plaisance contemplates marrying John's youthful son Balian. The High Court of Cyprus confirms her position, but the barons of Outremer require her attendance in person before they will recognize her. His mother, Queen Plaisance of Antioch, claims the regency of Cyprus and the titular regency of Jerusalem. January 18 – King Henry I ( the Fat) dies and is succeeded by his son Hugh II, who is only a few months old.1253 in various calendars Gregorian calendarĮvents By place Europe