Crusades Timeline: 1270-1291

 


 

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



 

  Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1270 Apr 27   English parliament grants tax to Prince Edward for a crusade
  Jul   Charles suppresses the revolt in Sicily
  Jul 1 Louis IX sails on his second crusade  
  Jul 18 Louis lands at Carthage, having been diverted there by Charles of Anjou  
  Jul 25 Louis captures Tunis  
  Aug 25 Louis IX dies; succeeded by his son Philip III  
  Nov 1 Charles of Anjou makes peace with Tunis  
  Nov 23 Crusader fleet destroyed in a storm returning to Sicily  
  Dec 5   Death of Theobald II of Navarre; succeeded by his brother Henry I, Count of Champagne
1271 Apr 8 Baybars captures Krak des Chevaliers  
  May 9 Prince Edward arrives at Acre on crusade  
  Aug 21   Alfonse of Poitiers dies; Poitou and Toulouse are now absorbed by the French crown
  Sep 1   Election of Gregory X as pope
      Marco Polo leaves Venice for China
      Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt
1272 Apr 2   Death of Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans
  May 22 Baybars and Acre agree to a ten-year truce  
  Jun 16 Attempt on Prince Edward's life at Acre by Assassins fails  
  Aug   Death of Stephen V of Hungary; succeeded by Ladislas IV
  Sep 22 Edward sails from Palestine  
  Nov 16   Death of Henry III; succeeded by Edward I
      Regensburg Cathedral begun
1273 Jan 21   Death of Muhammed I of Granada; succeeded by Muhammed II
  Oct 1   Rudolph, Count of Habsburg, elected as King of the Romans
      Genoa defeats Charles of Sicily
      Teutonic Knights complete suppression of the rebellion and apostasy of the tribes of West Prussia
      Raymond Lull begins his mission to the Muslims
      Muhammed II founds the Alhambra Palace, Granada
1274 Mar 7   Death of Thomas Aquinas (47)
  May   Dante meets Beatrice
  May 7   Council of Lyons begins
  Jul 6 Greek ambassadors at Council of Lyons take an oath recognizing papal supremacy; by part of the deal, Charles signs truce with Michael VIII  
  Jul 11   Robert Bruce born
  Jul 14   St. Bonaventura dies (53)
  Sep 26   Gregory recognizes Rudolph as King of the Romans
      Death of Henry I of Navarre; succeeded by this daughter Joanna I
      Weavers and fullers strike in Ghent
      Geoffrey de Beaulieu, Life of Louis IX
      Council of Lyons recognizes Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, and Austin Friars, and suppresses all other mendicant orders
1275 Nov 10   Charles is defeated in the Piedmont at Roccavione
    Marco Polo arrives at the court of Kublai Khan  
      Edward holds parliament attended by lords, knights and burgesses; for Statute of Westminster
    Creation of Nestorian archbishopric of Peking  
1276 Jan 10   Death of Pope Gregory X; succeeded by Innocent V
  Jun 22   Death of Innocent V; succeeded by Adrian V
  Jul 25   Death of James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon; succeeded by his son Pedro III
  Aug 18   Death of Adrian V; succeeded by John XXI
  Nov 25   Rudolph of Habsburg captures Vienna and makes it his capital
1277 May 20   Death of Pope John XXI
  Jun 24   Llewelyn refused to do homage, so Edward invades Wales
  Jul 1 Death of Baybars; succeeded by his son Baraka  
  Nov 9   Llewelyn submits to Edward in Treaty of Conway
  Nov 29   Election of Nicholas III as pope
      Teutonic Knights eliminate the Pogenzanian tribe
1278 Jan Charles of Sicily crowned as King of Jerusalem  
  Jan 21   Otto Visconti defeats Napoleone della Torre at Desio and expels him from Milan, becoming archbishop there; beginning of Visconti rule of Milan
  May 1 Death of William de Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea; succeeded by Charles of Sicily  
      Edward I begins quo warranto inquiries into titles
      Nicolς and Giovanni Pisono build Fountain in the Piazza of Perugia
1279 Jan   Death of Afonso III of Portugal; succeeded by his son, Dinis
  Feb 14   Rudolph recognizes papal authority over the Empire and cedes all imperial claims over the Papal States and southern Italy
  Dec 10   Death of Boleslav V, Grand Prince of Poland; succeeded by Leszek the Black
      Greeks put John Asen III on the Bulgarian throne
    Qalawun deposes Baraka and becomes Sultan of Egypt  
      Edward I issues Statute of Mortmain, forbidding grants of land to the Church
1280 May 9   Death of Magnus VII of Norway; succeeded by his son Eric II
  Aug 22   Death of Pope Nicholas III
  Oct 20 Mongols sack Aleppo  
  Nov 14   Albertus Magnus of Cologne dies (87)
      Cimabue, Madonna enthroned with angels
      Riots by weavers in Flanders
      Philippe de Beaumanoir, Coutumes de Clermont en Beauvais
1281 Feb 22   Election of Pope Martin IV
  Apr 10   Martin excommunicates the Greeks and renounces the union of 1274
  Jul 3 Venice agrees to help Charles restore the Latin Empire of Constantinople; Pope Martin deposes Emperor Michael VIII  
  Oct 30 Battle of Homs, at which Qalawun defeats a combined army of Mongols, Armenians and Hospitallers  
      Pedro of Aragon allies with Michael VIII against Charles of Sicily
1282 Mar 21   The Welsh rebel
  Mar 30   Sicilian Vespers
  Jun 18   Pedro of Aragon lands in North Africa, supposedly on crusade
  Aug   Edward begins his second Welsh campaign
  Aug 30   Pedro lands in Sicily; accepted by the people, he becomes King Peter I as the heir of Manfred
  Nov 18   Pope Martin declares Pedro deposed as King of Aragon and proclaims a crusade against him
  Dec 11 Death of Michael VIII; succeeded by his son Andronicus II, who immediately renounces the union with Rome  
  Dec 11   Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, killed in battle; his brother David succeeds
      Mongols invade Poland
      Alliance of Lόbeck, Riga and Wisby extends the Hanseatic League
      Priors of the Arts (guilds) established as the governing body in Florence
      Eric II grants charter of liberties to Danish nobles
1283 Apr 25   Harlech Castle surrenders to Edward, ending the Welsh revolt
  Oct 3   David, Prince of Wales, is executed by Edward
      The Teutonic Knights put down the last rebellion of the Prussians
1284 Mar 4 Death of Hugh III of Cyprus and Jerusalem; succeeded by his son John I  
  Apr 4   Death of Alfonso X the Wise, King of Castile and Leon; civil war follows
  Apr 25   Birth of Edward II
  Aug 6   Genoa destroys Pisan fleet
  Aug 16   Philip (IV) of France marries Joanna I, Queen of Navarre
      Statute of Rhuddlan establishes English government over Wales
      First reference (in Venice) to reading glasses
      Collapse of the nave of Beauvais Cathedral
1285 Jan 7   Death of Charles of Anjou; succeeded by his son Charles II
  Mar 28   Death of Pope Martin IV; succeeded by Honorius IV
  May 20 Death of John I of Cyprus; succeeded by his brother Henry II  
  Jun 27   Philip III invades Aragon, technically on a crusade
  Sep 7   Philip captures Gerona, but his army is ravaged by disease and he withdraws to France
  Oct 5   Death of Philip III; succeeded by his son Philip IV
  Nov 2   Death of Pedro III the Great; succeeded by his sons Alfonso III in Aragon and James in Sicily
      Teutonic Knights found Strassburg on the Drewenz River, beginning their long war against Lithuania
1286 Mar 19   Death of Alexander III of Scotland; succeeded by his granddaughter Margaret, daughter of Eric of Norway
  Nov   Eric V of Denmark murdered; succeeded by his son Eric VI Menved
      Philip IV introduces the gabelle (salt tax)
1287 Apr 3   Death of Pope Honorius IV
  Apr 20 Egyptians take Lattakieh  
  May 31 Genoa defeats Venice off Acre and blockades the city  
  Jun 23   James repulses an Angevin invasion of Sicily
  Jul 15   England and Aragon form alliance
      Dikes on the Zuider Zee break in a storm, killing many; extensions of the polders slows to a halt
1288 Feb   Election of Pope Nicholas IV
      Communal Palace at Siena begun
      Mongol raids on Poland end
1289 Apr 26 Qalawun captures and destroys Tripoli  
  May 29   Nicholas crowns Charles II as King of Sicily
  Oct 4   Louis X born
    John of Monte Corvino sent by poe to Persia and China  
      First record of a printing block, at Ravenna
1290 Jun 9   Death of Dante's Beatrice
  Jul 18   Treaty of Brigham; Scots agree to marriage of Margaret to Edward II
  Sep   Margaret, Queen of Scotland, the Maid of Norway, dies on her way from Norway
  Nov Death of Qalawun, succeeded by his son al-Ashraf Kamil  
  Nov 28   Death of Eleanor of Castile, queen of Edward I
  Dec 18   Death of Magnus I of Sweden; succeeded by his son Birgir II
      Lohengrin, anonymous
      Edward expels the Jews from England
      Third Statute of Westminster: Quia emptores; also sets the accession of Richard I in 1189 as the limit of legal memory
1291 Feb   Philip of France and Alfonso of Aragon make peace
  Apr 6 al-Ashraf Kamil begins siege of Acre  
  May 18 Fall of Acre  
  Jun 18   Death of Alfonso III of Aragon; succeeded by James II
  Jul 15   Death of Rudolph of Habsburg
  Jul 31 al-Ashraf takes Beirut, last Crusader outpost  

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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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