1245

Year 1245 (MCCXLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1245 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1245
MCCXLV
Ab urbe condita1998
Armenian calendar694
ԹՎ ՈՂԴ
Assyrian calendar5995
Balinese saka calendar1166–1167
Bengali calendar652
Berber calendar2195
English Regnal year29 Hen. 3  30 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar1789
Burmese calendar607
Byzantine calendar6753–6754
Chinese calendar甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
3941 or 3881
     to 
乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
3942 or 3882
Coptic calendar961–962
Discordian calendar2411
Ethiopian calendar1237–1238
Hebrew calendar5005–5006
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1301–1302
 - Shaka Samvat1166–1167
 - Kali Yuga4345–4346
Holocene calendar11245
Igbo calendar245–246
Iranian calendar623–624
Islamic calendar642–643
Japanese calendarKangen 3
(寛元3年)
Javanese calendar1154–1155
Julian calendar1245
MCCXLV
Korean calendar3578
Minguo calendar667 before ROC
民前667年
Nanakshahi calendar−223
Thai solar calendar1787–1788
Tibetan calendar阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1371 or 990 or 218
     to 
阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1372 or 991 or 219
Ferdinand III (the Saint) (r. 1217–1252)

Events

Europe

  • Winter Siege of Jaén: Castilian forces under King Ferdinand III (the Saint) besiege the Moorish-held city of Jaén. During the siege Moorish knights sally out and manage to capture a Castilian supply caravan. Meanwhile, Ferdinand tries to launch attacks on the various city gates, but all are ineffective.
  • In witness of the toll taken by war and fiscal pressure in the Kingdom of Castile, the region of Segovia is described this year as depopulated and sterile.[1]

England

Levant

  • April Egyptian forces under As-Salih Ayyub besiege the city of Damascus. After six months, As-Salih Ismail, ruler of Damascus, surrenders to Ayyub in return for a vassal-principality, consisting of Baalbek and the Hauran. Ayyub is awarded the title of sultan by Caliph Al-Musta'sim in Baghdad.[2]

Religion

  • February 21 Thomas, bishop of Turku (modern Finland), is granted resignation by Pope Innocent IV. He admits to committing several felonies, such as torturing and forging a papal letter.
  • April 16 Innocent IV sends Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (accompanied by Stephen of Bohemia) to the Mongol court at Karakorum, suggesting that the Mongols convert to Christianity.[3]
  • June 28 First Council of Lyon: In a general church council held at Lyon, Innocent IV declares Emperor Frederick II excommunicated and deposed. He proclaims the Seventh Crusade.[4]

Births

  • January 16 Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III (d. 1296)
  • May 1 Philip III (the Bold), king of France (d. 1285)
  • November 14 Sang Sapurba, Indonesian ruler (d. 1316)
  • Antony Bek (or Beck), English bishop and patriarch (d. 1311)
  • Araniko (or Anig), Nepalese architect and painter (d. 1306)
  • Eric of Brandenburg, archbishop of Magdeburg (d. 1295)
  • Fujiwara no Saneko, Japanese empress consort (d. 1272)
  • Giovanna da Signa, Italian miracle worker and saint (d. 1307)
  • Kikuchi Takefusa, Japanese nobleman and samurai (d. 1285)
  • Kunigunda of Halych, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1285)
  • Ma Duanlin, Chinese encyclopaedist and politician (d. 1322)
  • Nichirō, Japanese Buddhist disciple and scholar (d. 1320)
  • Rinaldo da Concorezzo, Italian priest and archbishop (d. 1321)
  • Roger Bigod, English nobleman and Lord Marshal (d. 1306)
  • Thomas de Berkeley (the Wise), English nobleman (d. 1321)
  • Yahballaha III, patriarch of the Church of the East (d. 1317)
  • Ziemomysł of Kuyavia, Polish ruler of Bydgoszcz (d. 1287)

Deaths

  • January 27 Ralph of Maidstone, bishop of Hereford
  • January 28 Giovanni Colonna, Italian cardinal (b. 1170)
  • February 8 John of la Rochelle, French theologian (b. 1200)
  • February 15 Baldwin de Redvers, English nobleman (b. 1217)
  • March 22 Roger I of Fézensaguet, French nobleman (b. 1190)
  • July 22 Kolbeinn ungi Arnórsson, Icelandic chieftain (b. 1208)
  • August 19 Ramon Berenguer IV, Spanish nobleman (b. 1198)
  • August 21 Alexander of Hales, English theologian (b. 1185)
  • November 27 Walter Marshal, English nobleman (b. 1209)
  • December 4 Christian of Oliva, bishop of Prussia (b. 1180)
  • Adam of Harcarse, Scottish Cistercian priest and abbot
  • Beatrice d'Este, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1215)
  • Cletus Bél, Hungarian prelate, bishop and chancellor
  • Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi, Syrian scholar and writer (b. 1173)
  • Fujiwara no Tadataka, Japanese regent and monk (b. 1163)
  • Guillaume le Vinier, French composer and poet (b. 1190)
  • Ibn al-Salah, Syrian scholar, imam and writer (b. 1181)
  • Isabel de Bolebec, English noblewoman and co-heiress
  • Rusudan of Georgia, queen consort of Georgia (b. 1194)

References

  1. Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In Abulafia, David (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–699 [670]. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
  2. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-0241-29877-0.
  3. Yule, Henry; Beazley, Charles Raymond (1911). "Carpini, Joannes de Piano". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 397–399.
  4. Hywel Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 141. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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