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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| Events in Outremer | Events in Europe | ||
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| 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 | ||