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1248 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1248 MCCXLVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2001 |
Armenian calendar | 697 ԹՎ ՈՂԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 5998 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1169–1170 |
Bengali calendar | 655 |
Berber calendar | 2198 |
English Regnal year | 32 Hen. 3 – 33 Hen. 3 |
Buddhist calendar | 1792 |
Burmese calendar | 610 |
Byzantine calendar | 6756–6757 |
Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3945 or 3738 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3946 or 3739 |
Coptic calendar | 964–965 |
Discordian calendar | 2414 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1240–1241 |
Hebrew calendar | 5008–5009 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1304–1305 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1169–1170 |
- Kali Yuga | 4348–4349 |
Holocene calendar | 11248 |
Igbo calendar | 248–249 |
Iranian calendar | 626–627 |
Islamic calendar | 645–646 |
Japanese calendar | Hōji 2 (宝治2年) |
Javanese calendar | 1157–1158 |
Julian calendar | 1248 MCCXLVIII |
Korean calendar | 3581 |
Minguo calendar | 664 before ROC 民前664年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −220 |
Thai solar calendar | 1790–1791 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1374 or 993 or 221 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1375 or 994 or 222 |
Year 1248 (MCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- April 26 – The Gothic chapel Sainte-Chapelle is consecrated in Paris, France.
- August 15 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral is laid, after an older cathedral on the site burns down on April 30 (construction is completed 632 years later, in 1880).
- August 25 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, Archbishop of Utrecht, after it has been pillaged at least twice by a local robber baron.
- November 23 – Reconquista: King Ferdinand III of Castile recaptures the city of Seville from the Moors, ending the Siege of Seville; this year also Prince Alfonso X of Castile takes the city of Alicante.
- November 24 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapses, in one of the largest historical rock slope failures known in Europe.[1]
Date unknown
- King Louis IX of France launches the Seventh Crusade, setting sail with an army of 20,000 toward Egypt.
- Pope Innocent IV grants the Croats permission to use their own language and script in liturgy (see Glagolitic alphabet).
- Tallinn (Reval) converts from Riga law to Lübeck law.
- Roger Bacon publishes the formula for black powder in Europe.
- Approximate date – History of the Aztecs: The Mexica tribe, predecessors of the Aztec people, arrive at Chapultepec (in modern-day Mexico City).
Births
- Blanche of Artois, queen consort and regent of Navarre (approximate date) (d. 1302)
- Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1306)
- Peter Olivi, Franciscan theologian (d. 1298)
- Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (d. 1271)
Deaths
- January 4 – Sancho II (the Pious), king of Portugal (b. 1209)
- February 1 – Henry II, Dutch nobleman and knight (b. 1207)
- February 9 – Al-Adil II, Ayyubid ruler of Egypt and Damascus
- March 27 – Maud Marshal, English noblewoman (b. 1192)
- April 20 – Güyük Khan (or Kuyuk), Mongol emperor (b. 1206)
- Al-Qifti, Egyptian scholar historian and biographer (b. 1172)
- Haraldr Óláfsson, Scottish ruler of the Kingdom of the Isles
- Subutai, Mongol general and military strategist (b. 1175)
References
- ^ Fort, Monique; et al. (2009), "Geomorphic impacts of large and rapid mass movements: a review", Géomorphologie, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 47–64, doi:10.4000/geomorphologie.7495, retrieved August 25, 2015