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Heads of State · Nekrolog

1240
Battle of the Neva, historicizing illustration by Boris Artemievich Tchorikov, 19th century
Alexander Nevsky , Prince of Novgorod , defeated the Swedes under Birger Jarl in the Battle of the Neva .
1240 in other calendars
Armenian calendar 688/689 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar 1232/33
Buddhist calendar 1783/84 (southern Buddhism); 1782/83 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 65th (66th) cycle

Year of the Metal Rat庚子 ( at the beginning of the Earth Pig year 己亥)

Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) 602/603 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar 618/619
Islamic calendar 637/638 (turn of the year 22/23 July)
Jewish calendar 5000/01 (September 17/18)
Coptic calendar 956/957
Malayalam calendar 415/416
Seleucid era Babylon: 1550/51 (turn of the year April)

Syria: 1551/52 (turn of the year October)

Spanish era 1278
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 1296/97 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Northern and Eastern Europe

Siege of Kiev

Ayyubids / Crusades

  • End of May / beginning of June: al-Adil II , Sultan of the Ayyubids in Egypt , is deposed and captured by his own ministers in a palace revolt. His half-brother al-Salih Ayyub is invited to take the throne.
  • Summer: As the new Egyptian sultan also claims rule over Damascus for himself, the local Sultan al-Salih Ismail and an-Nasir Dawud form an alliance with the crusade of the barons under Theobald von Champagne, which had arrived the previous year . They hand over Galilee to the Crusaders with several fortresses.
  • September: Theobald von Champagne, tired of the political turmoil in the Holy Land, starts his journey home to France with a large part of the crusade army after the end of his vow of commitment and after visiting the holy places in Jerusalem .
  • October 11th : A second crusade army from England under the leadership of Richard of Cornwall arrives in Acre.
  • End of the year: Since the alliance with the Crusaders met with widespread rejection in the Arab world and large parts of the troops refused to fight alongside the Christians against Ayyub in Egypt, the Crusaders concluded a neutrality agreement with as-Salih Ayyub. In it all areas west of the Jordan via Jerusalem to Ascalon are given to them.
  • The Coptic Egyptian scribe 'Abul Fada'il Ibn al-'Assal records the Fetha Negest code in writing. The author uses some apostolic writings for his laws and also earlier legal texts of Byzantine rulers.

Western and Southern Europe

Castel del Monte

Holy Roman Empire

British Islands

Dafydd ap Llywelyn (right) mourns his dead father with his brother Gruffydd

City rights, privileges and first documentary mentions

Coat of arms of the Knights of Ofteringen in Scheibler's book of arms

economy

science and technology

  • The University of Siena is founded.
  • Emperor Friedrich II. Issues an ordinance that regulates medical studies. The curriculum consists of 3 years of logic, 5 years of medicine (including surgery and anatomy including autopsy of human bodies) and one year of practice with a doctor.

Culture

religion

nature and environment

Born

Exact date of birth unknown

Born around 1240

Died

First half of the year

Llywelyn's stone coffin

Second half of the year

Grave of Konrad of Thuringia in Marburg
Ibn Arabis cenotaph in a glass case in his tomb ( Qubba ) in the al-Salihiya district on the northern edge of Damascus at the foot of the Jabal Qāsiyūn
Constance of Hungary, tympanum, Porta Coeli monastery

Exact date of death unknown

Died around 1240

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