1262

Year 1262 (MCCLXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Mongol Empire

• Baibars (or Abu al-Futuh), saving Palestine and Arabia
  from Ilkhanate occupation.

• imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire
  .
• May – King Alfonso X (the Wise) of Castile and León, at a meeting in Jaén, demands military support from Muhammad I, ruler of Granada, and relenquishes the ports of Tarifa and Algeciras to prepare an invasion of North Africa.
• September 14 – Castilian-Leonese forces led by Alfonso X (the Wise) conquer Cádiz, the city has been under Moorish rule since 711. The Muslims are ousted, and Alfonso repopulates the region (also called the Repoblación).^[1]
• The
  Haakon Iv
  (the Old) as its ruler.
• King Mindaugas renounces Christianity, returning to his pagan roots, and reverting to Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Levant

• Baibars and released in 1296 by Sultan Lajin
  .

• King Mangrai of the Lan Na Kingdom (modern Northern Thailand) founds the city of Chiang Rai, as the kingdom's capital.

By topic

Arts and Culture

• Adam de la Halle, French trouvère and musician, writes the first operetta, "Le Jeu de la Feuillee".

Markets

• The Venetian Senate starts consolidating all of the city's outstanding debt into a single fund, later known as the Monte Vecchio. The holders of the newly created prestiti are promised a 5% annual coupon. These claims can be sold, and quickly (before 1320) give rise to the first recorded secondary market for financial assets, in Medieval Europe.^[2]

Religion

• Richard of Chichester is canonized as a saint; he is best known for authoring the prayer later adapted into the song Day by Day, in the musical Godspell.

Science and Technology

• Alfonso X (the Wise) commissions
  Alfonsine Tables, describing the movement of the planets.^[3]

• May 6 – John Hastings, English nobleman and knight (d. 1313)
• August 5 – Ladisslaus IV (the Cuman), king of Hungary (d. 1290)
• October 18 – Ranulph Neville (or Ralph), English nobleman (d. 1331)
• Bérenger de Landore, French preacher and archbishop (d. 1330)
• Elisabeth of Carinthia (or Tyrol), queen of Germany (d. 1312)
• Guan Daogao, Chinese calligrapher, poet and painter (d. 1319)
• Guan Daosheng, Chinese painter, poet and writer (d. 1319)
• John II (Megas Komnenos), emperor of Trebizond (d. 1297)
• John of Castile, Spanish prince (infante) and regent (d. 1319)
• Takatsukasa Kanetada, Japanese nobleman (kugyō) ((d. 1301)
• U Tak (or Woo Tak), Korean scholar and philosopher (d. 1342
  )
• William de Cantilupe, Norman nobleman and knight (d. 1308)

Deaths

• April 23 – Giles of Assisi, companion of Francis of Assisi (b. 1190)
• May 18 – John Climping, English cleric, chancellor and bishop
• June 23 – Siemowit I, Polish nobleman and knight (House of Piast)
• July 13 – Henry Wingham, English Lord Chancellor and bishop
• July 14 – Richard de Clare, English nobleman and knight (b. 1222)
• August 24 – Robert de Mariscis, English priest and archdeacon
• September 1 – Giuliana of Collalto, Italian Benedictine abbess
• September 12 – Baldwin de Redvers, English nobleman (b. 1236)
• October 5 – Teruko, Japanese princess and empress (b. 1224)
• December 13 – Giles of Bridport, English archdeacon and bishop
• December 21 – Bahauddin Zakariya, Ghurid scholar and poet
• Ibn al-Adim, Syrian diplomat, biographer and historian (b. 1192)
• Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam, Syrian jurist and theologian (b. 1181)
• Matilda II (or Maud), French noblewoman and regent (b. 1235)
• Mem Soares de Melo, Portuguese nobleman and knight (b. 1200)
• Peter de Rivaux, English High Sheriff and Lord High Treasurer

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