Crusades Timeline: 1258-1269

 

 

Note: where only the year is known, the event is listed last in the events for that year.



 

  Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1258 Jan 11 Mongols defeat the Caliph at Anbar  
  Feb 10 Mongols capture and destroy Baghdad  
  Feb 20 Last Abassid caliph and his family are killed by Hulagu  
  Mar   Llewelyn ap Gruffyd assumes the title of Prince of Wales
  Jun 11   Provisions of Oxford; baronial control of English government
  Aug   Death of Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of Nicaea; succeeded by his son John IV
  Aug 10   Manfred assumed the crown of Sicily
      Ezzelino da Romano captures Brescia
      Louis IX forbids private warfare in France
1259 Apr   Pope Alexander recognizes Richard as King of the Romans
  May   Siena accepts Manfred as overlord
  May 29   Death of Christopher I of Denmark; succeeded by his son Eric V
  Aug 1   Henry III makes peace with Llewelyn of Wales
  Aug 11 Death of Mongka, Great Khan of the Mongols  
  Sep   Mongols invade Syria
  Sep 16   Milanese defeat and capture Ezzelino da Romano; they execute him two weeks later
  Oct 13   Provisions of Westminster
  Dec 4   Louis and Henry make peace in the Treaty of Paris, by which Henry renounces claim to Normandy, Maine, Anjou and other Angevin lands, and does homage for Gascony
      Poland, Lithuania and Galicia are devastated by Mongol raids
      Louis abolishes the judicial duel
      Rostock and Wismar ally with Lόbeck, expanding the Hanseatic League
1260 Mar 1 Damascus surrenders to the Mongols, but Hulagu soon withdraws because of the dispute over the successor to Mongka  
  Jul 1   Lithuanians defeat Teutonic Knights at Durben
  Jul 12   Ottokar of Bohemia defeats Bιla of Hungary at Kroissenbrunn; Bιla cedes Styria to Ottokar
  Sep 3 Baybars and the Egyptians destroy Mongol army at Ayn Jalud in Palestine  
  Sep 4   Manfred's forces defeat the Florentines at Monteporto
  Oct 24 Baybars murders Sultan Qutuz  
      Maffeo and Nicolς Polo set out for China
1261 Mar 13 Treaty of Nymphaeum, by which Genoa agrees to help Michael VIII Paleologus to recover Constantinople in exchange for trading privileges currently held by Venice  
  May 25   Death of Pope Alexander IV
  Jul 4 Baybars becomes Sultan of Egypt  
  Jul 25 Michael VIII recovers Constantinople  
  Aug 29   Pope Urban IV elected; he offers the Crown of Sicily to Charles of Anjou
      Murcia rebels against Alfonso of Castile
1262 Jun   Pedro, son of James of Aragon, marries Constance, daughter of Manfred of Sicily
  Sep 14   Alfonso of Castile captures Cadiz
      Llewelyn begins to attack England
      Alfonsine Tables completed (planetary movements)
      Louis IX brings finances of French cities under royal control
1263 Jan   Henry III re-issues the Provisions of Westminster
  Mar 29   Urban excommunicates Manfred again
  Apr   Simon de Montfort returns to England to lead a new rebellion of the barons against Henry III
  Apr 4 Baybars attacks Acre  
  Jul 16   Henry capitulates to the barons; Montfort occupies London
  Oct 3   Alexander of Scotland defeats Haakon of Norway in the Hebrides; these islands now become Scottish
  Nov 14   Death of Alexander Nevski; succeeded by his son Jaroslav III
  Dec   Death of Martino della Torre, tyrant of Milan; succeeded by his brother Filippo
  Dec 15   Death of Haakon IV of Norway; succeeded by his son Magnus VII
      Alfonso of Castile takes Cartagena
      Murder of Mindovg, Prince of Lithuania
      Venice defeats Genoa at Battle of Settepozzi
      Urban IV renews prohibition of study of Artistotle at University of Paris
1264 Jan 23   Mise of Amiens; Louis as arbitrator rules in favor of Henry III in his conflict with his barons
  Apr 7   Henry takes the offensive against the barons and captures Northampton
  May 14   Simon de Montfort defeats and captures Henry at the Battle of Lewes
  Jun 28   Simon de Montfort and the barons now rule England
  Oct 2   Death of Pope Urban IV
      Manfred captures Lucca; he now controls Tuscany
      Venice defeats Genoa off Trapani
1265 Jan 20   Simon de Montfort holds aParliament attended by burgesses and shire-knights
  Feb   A new Lombard League forms, led by Filippo della Torre of Milan and Obizzo d'Este of Ferrara
  Feb 5   Clement IV elected pope
  Feb 8 Death of Hulagu, Mongol Ilkhan of Persia  
  Apr   Pope Clement grants the Kingdom of Sicily to Charles of Anjou
  May 30   Dante Alighieri born
  Jun 28   Clement invests Charles as king and appoints him to lead a crusade against Manfred
  Aug   Napoleone della Torre becomes lord of Milan
  Aug 4   Henry and Edward defeat and kill Simon de Montfort at Evesham
  Aug 4 Baybars captures Caesarea and Arsuf  
1266 Jan 6   Charles of Anjou crowned King of Sicily
  Feb 26   Charles defeats and kills Manfred at Benevento
  Jun   Henry begins siege of rebels at Kenilworth Castle
  Jul 23 Baybars captures Templar castle of Safed  
  Aug 24 Mameluks defeat Armenians and plunder Cilicia  
  Dec 14   Castle Kenilworth surrenders to Henry
      Alfonso of Castile conquers Murcia
    Genoa captures Kaffa, in the Crimea  
      Louis IX reforms French currency, introduces the gros tournai
      Roger Bacon, Opus Maius
1267 Apr 9   Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, occupies London
  Jun   Romans rebel against Pope Clement
  Aug   Sicily rebels against Charles of Anjou while he is off conquering Corfω
  Nov 18   Statute of Marlborough issued by Henry III
1268 Mar 7 Baybars takes Jaffa  
  Apr 4 Michael VIII makes peace with Venice and restores its trading privileges  
  Apr 17   Clement appoints Charles as imperial vicar in Tuscany
  May 21 Baybars takes Antioch and slaughters the population  
  Jun 9   Rudolph of Habsburg gains Fribourg and lordship of Berne
  Aug 23   Conradin defeated and captured by Charles at Tagliacozzo
  Oct 29   Charles has Conradin executed
  Nov 29   Death of Pope Clement IV
      Philip IV born
1269 Sep 24 Hugh III of Cyprus crowned King of Jerusalem at Acre  
  Oct 13   Henry III dedicates abbey church of Westminster

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1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •

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The timeline was created by  Skip Knox, who is an adjunct professor of history at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho USA since 1986. He received his MA in medieval history at the University of Utah in 1980 and his PhD in early modern European social and economic history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984.        http://crusades.boisestate.edu/

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