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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 12th century13th century14th century
Decades: 1230s  1240s  1250s  – 1260s –  1270s  1280s  1290s
Years: 1257 1258 125912601261 1262 1263

Events

Europe

War and politics

Culture

Asia

  • May 5Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
  • May 21 – Kublai sends his envoy Hao Jing to negotiate with the Song Dynasty Chancellor Jia Sidao, after the small force left by Kublai south of the Yangzi River is destroyed by a Chinese army of the Southern Song Dynasty. Chancellor Jia Sidao ordered to imprison the entire embassy of Kublai. This slight would not be forgotten by Kublai, but he was unable to assault the Song due to the civil war with his rival brother Ariq Böke.
  • September 3 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
  • The Sena Dynasty of Bengal falls.
  • The Chinese era Jingding begins and ends in the Southern Song Dynasty of China.
  • The Japanese Shōgen era ends, and the Bun'ō era begins.
  • The Hindu Silharya Dynasty, which ruled an area around Mumbai, ends.
  • The newly formed Sukhothai kingdom of Thailand adopts Theravada Buddhism.

Africa

Births

Deaths

  • October 24 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
  • Franciscus Accursius, Italian jurist (approximate date)
  • Matilda II of Bologne, sovereign Countess of Bologne
  • Aymer de Valence, Bishop of Winchester

See also

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