Crusades Timeline: 1258-1269

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

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1215-12201221-12291230-12481249-12571258-12691270-1291
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 Lübeck, 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 Béla of Hungary at Kroissenbrunn; Béla 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 Nicolò 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 Corfù
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