1250s

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| 12th century | 13th century | 14th century |
| 1220s | 1230s | 1240s | 1250s | 1260s | 1270s | 1280s |
1250 | 1251 | 1252 | 1253 | 1254 | 1255 | 1256 | 1257 | 1258 | 1259

Events

  • 1254 : King Ludwig IX. of France and his army return from the lost crusade after paying a large ransom.
  • 1258 : The Mongols conquer Baghdad , the capital of the Islamic caliphate state and at that time one of the most important world metropolises. In an unparalleled inferno, hundreds of thousands of residents are killed or made slaves.

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