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Art and literature |
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
By place
Seventh Crusade
- August 12 – King Louis IX (the Saint) leaves Paris together with his wife, Queen Margaret of Provence, and her sister Beatrice of Provence. Two of Louis' brothers, Charles of Anjou and Robert of Artois, are also present. He is followed by his cousins, Hugh IV of Burgundy and Peter Mauclerc, both are veterans of the Barons' Crusade.[1]
- August 25 – Louis IX departs from Aigues-Mortes and Marseilles with a French expeditionary force (some 10,000 men) transported by 100 ships. An English detachment (some 5,000 men) under William Longespée (the Younger), grandson of King Henry III, and his mistress Ida de Tosny follows close behind with 36 transport ships.[2]
- September 17 – Louis IX arrives at Limassol on the island of Cyprus. He gathers his forces and is well received by King Henry I (the Fat). The Crusaders are supplemented by nobles from Acre, including Grand Masters Jean de Ronay and Guillaume de Sonnac. Louis prepares a plan of campaign, with Egypt as the prime objective.[3]
- November – Louis IX receives an embassy during his stay in Cyprus from the Mongol general, Eljigidei, who is viceroy in Persia. They bring a letter from Guyuk Khan with no demands of submission, but talking in terms about Mongol favouritism for Christianity, and a proposal of a joint invasion against the Ayyubid forces in Syria.[4]
- December – Louis IX decides to spend the winter on Cyprus to make preparations against Egypt. Meanwhile, the nobles persuade him to start negotiations with Sultan As-Salih Ayyub to intervene in the internal Ayyubid affairs. But Louis rejects this offer and orders the Knights Templar to break off their negotiations with As-Salih.[5]
Europe
- November 23 – Siege of Seville: Castilian forces under King Ferdinand III (the Saint) recaptures the city of Seville from the Almohads, after a 16-month siege. Prince Alfonso of Castile takes the city of Alicante.
- November 24–25 – 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.[6]
By topic
Cities and Towns
- August 25 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, archbishop of Utrecht, after the town has been pillaged by a local robber baron.
Religion
- April 26 – The Gothic chapel Sainte-Chapelle (or Holy Chapel) is completed and consecrated in Paris. Louis IX moves the relics of the True Cross and Holy Lance to the chapel with great ceremony.
- August 15 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral is laid by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden, after the older cathedral is burned down on April 30 (construction is completed in 1880).
- Pope Innocent IV grants the Croatians of southern Dalmatia permission to use their own language and script in the Roman Rite liturgy (see Glagolitic alphabet).
Births
- Abu Said Faraj, Andalusian advisor and governor (d. 1320)
- Blanche of Artois, queen and regent of Navarre (d. 1302)
- Isabella of Aragon, queen consort of France (d. 1271)
- Peter John Olivi, French monk and theologian (d. 1298)
- Robert II of Burgundy, French nobleman and knight (d. 1306)
Deaths
- January 4 – Sancho II (the Pious), king of Portugal (b. 1209)
- January 18 – Fujiwara no Ritsushi, Japanese empress (b. 1192)
- February 1 – Henry II, Dutch nobleman and knight (b. 1207)
- February 9 – Al-Adil II, Ayyubid ruler of Egypt and Damascus
- February 25 – Bolesław I of Masovia, Polish prince (b. 1208)
- March 27 – Maud Marshal, English noblewoman (b. 1192)
- April 9 – Hugh I of Châtillon, French nobleman and knight
- April 20 – Güyük Khan (or Kuyuk), Mongol emperor (b. 1206)
- August 7 – Giordano Forzatè, Italian religious leader (b. 1158)
- December 26 – Theobald Butler, Irish chief governor (b. 1224)
- Al-Qifti, Egyptian scholar, historian and biographer (b. 1172)
- Hachijō-in Takakura, Japanese noblewoman and waka poet
- Haraldr Óláfsson, Scottish ruler of the Kingdom of the Isles
- Hermann von Buxhövden, Livonian prince-bishop (b. 1163)
- Ibn al-Baytar, Andalusian physician and scientist (b. 1197)
- John Blund, English archbishop and philosopher (b. 1175)
- John of Monmouth, Norman nobleman and knight (b. 1182)
- Richard Fishacre, English theologian and writer (b. 1200)
- Subutai, Mongol general and military strategist (b. 1175)
References
- ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 215. ISBN 978-0-241-29877-0.
- ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, pp. 215–216. ISBN 978-0-241-29877-0.
- ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 216. ISBN 978-0-241-29877-0.
- ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 218. ISBN 978-0-241-29877-0.
- ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 217. ISBN 978-0-241-29877-0.
- ^ 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