Crusades Timeline: 1270-1291

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

• 1095-1099 • 1100-1120 • 1121-1144 • 1145-1163 • 1164-1187 • 1188-1197 • 1198-1214 •
1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •
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
Nicolò 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 Lübeck, 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