Crusades Timeline: 1249-1257

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

1095-10991100-11201121-11441145-11631164-11871188-11971198-1214
1215-12201221-12291230-12481249-12571258-12691270-1291
Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1249 May 26 Bolognese defeat and capture Frederick's son Enzio, King of Sardinia, at La Fossalta
Jun 5 Louis lands in Egypt, Seventh Crusade
Jun 6 Louis enters Damietta
Jul 8 Death of Alexander II, King of Scotland; succeeded by his son Alexander III
Sep 27 Death of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse; succeeded by his son-in-law, Alfonse of Poitiers, brother of Louis IX
Nov 23 Death of Ayyub, Sultan of Egypt; succeeded by his son, Turan Shah
1250 Feb 2 Death of Eric XI of Sweden; succeeded by his nephew, Waldemar I
Feb 8 Louis defeats the Egyptians at Mansurah
Apr 6 Egyptians defeat and capture Louis while he is withdrawing from Mansurah
May 2 Turan Shah murdered by Mamluk guards; end of the Ayyubid dynasty and beginning of the Mamluks
May 6 Louis is released after surrendering Damietta; he goes to Acre
Aug 9 Eric IV of Denmark murdered; succeeded by his brother Abel
Dec 13 Death of Frederick II; succeeded by his son Conrad IV in Sicily
Revolt in Gascony against Simon de Montfort
Otto and John of Brandenburg found Frankfurt am Oder and establish the Neumark
1251 Mar Rebellion in Sicily against Conrad IV
May Simon de Montfort suppresses the rebellion in Gascony
Shepherds' Crusade
War breaks out over Styria between Ottokar of Bohemia and Béla of Hungary
1252 May 30 Death of St. Ferdinand III, King of Castile and Leon; succeeded by his son, Alfonso X
Jun 29 King Abel of Denmark defeated and killed by the Frisians; succeeded by his brother, Christopher I
The people of Rome revolt against Innocent, establishing a commune under a Podestà
Alexander Nevski appointed Grand Duke of Vladimir
Florence begins to coin the gold florin
Hansa merchants receive trading privileges in Bruges
Pope Innocent IV's bull ad extirpanda orders the use of torture in the examination of heretics
1253 Jul 8 Death of Theobald I of Navarrre; succeeded by his son Theobald II
Aug 11 Death of St. Clara (60)
Oct 9 Death of Robert Grosseteste
Oct 10 Death of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia; succeeded by his son Ottokar II
Louis IX sends William of Rubruck and Bartholomew of Cremona to the court of the Great Khan at Karakorum to seek his alliance against the Muslims
Swietopulk of East Pomerania makes peace with the Teutonic Knights
1254 Apr 9 Innocent again excommunicates Conrad IV
Apr 22 Treaty of Toledo makes peace between Henry of England and Alfonso of Castile
Apr 24 Louis leaves Palestine; civil war breaks out there
May 21 Death of Conrad IV, King of the Romans, Sicily and Jerusalem; succeeded in Sicily by his son Conradin
Jul 11 Louis arrives back in France
Jul 13 Confederation of Rhenish towns forms
Sep 13 Armenia becomes a vassal state of the Mongols
Nov 2 Manfred begins anti-papal revolt in the Regno, seizes Lucera
Nov 3 Death of John III Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea; succeeded by his son, Theodore II Lascaris
Dec 2 Manfred defeats papal troops near Foggia
Dec 7 Death of Innocent IV; Alexander IV elected
Afonso of Portugal holds the first Cortes attended by the towns
Registers of the Parlemenets of Paris begin
Marco Polo born
Llewelyn makes himself sole ruler of the Welsh
Teutonic Knights found Königsberg
1255 Sep Papal troops in the Regno surrender to Manfred
Nov Romans expel their podestà Brancaleone; Pope Alexander returns
Death of Batu, Khan of the Golden Horde
1256 Jan 28 Death of William of Holland, King of the Romans
Dec Hulagu captures Assassin stronghold at Alamut; the Mongols now eliminate the Assassins in Persia
Alfonso X supervises the compilation of the Siete Partidas, a law code
Alexander IV recognizes the Austin Friars as a mendicant order
Albertus Magnus, De Unitate Intellectus contra Averroem
1257 Jan 13 Richard, Earl of Cornwall, elected King of the Romans; this is the first mention of the Seven Electors of the Empire
May 17 Richard crowned King of the Romans at Aachen