1253

Year 1253 (MCCLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1253 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1253
MCCLIII
Ab urbe condita2006
Armenian calendar702
ԹՎ ՉԲ
Assyrian calendar6003
Balinese saka calendar1174–1175
Bengali calendar660
Berber calendar2203
English Regnal year37 Hen. 3  38 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar1797
Burmese calendar615
Byzantine calendar6761–6762
Chinese calendar壬子年 (Water Rat)
3949 or 3889
     to 
癸丑年 (Water Ox)
3950 or 3890
Coptic calendar969–970
Discordian calendar2419
Ethiopian calendar1245–1246
Hebrew calendar5013–5014
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1309–1310
 - Shaka Samvat1174–1175
 - Kali Yuga4353–4354
Holocene calendar11253
Igbo calendar253–254
Iranian calendar631–632
Islamic calendar650–651
Japanese calendarKenchō 5
(建長5年)
Javanese calendar1162–1163
Julian calendar1253
MCCLIII
Korean calendar3586
Minguo calendar659 before ROC
民前659年
Nanakshahi calendar−215
Thai solar calendar1795–1796
Tibetan calendar阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1379 or 998 or 226
     to 
阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1380 or 999 or 227
William II of Holland (1227–1256)

Events

Europe

  • January 18 King Henry I (the Fat) dies and is succeeded by his son Hugh II, who is only a few months old. His mother, Queen Plaisance of Antioch, claims the regency of Cyprus and the titular regency of Jerusalem. The High Court of Cyprus confirms her position, but the barons of Outremer require her attendance in person before they will recognize her. John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa, remains as bailli, and Plaisance contemplates marrying John's youthful son Balian. Meanwhile, King Louis IX (the Saint), still staying at Acre, continues to administer the government.[1]
  • Summer The Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia becomes a vassal state to the expanding Mongol Empire. Prince Daniel of Galicia is crowned "Rex Rusiae" and becomes officially an Orthodox subject of the Papal States.
  • July 4 William II, count of Holland, defeats the Flemish forces under Guy of Dampierre at Westkapelle. He forced him and his mother, Margaret II, to respect the division of Flanders and Hainaut.
  • July 6 Mindaugas and his wife Morta are crowned as king and queen of Lithuania, ruling between 300,000 and 400,000 subjects.[2]
  • October 10 German imperial forces under King Conrad IV suppress the Sicilian rebellion and recapture Naples.

England

  • August 6 King Henry III leads an expedition to Gascony, to repel a rumoured invasion from Castile.[3] Meanwhile, Simon de Montfort returns from Gascony where he allies himself with the barons who oppose Henry.
  • The Domus Conversorum ("House of the Converts"), a building and institution in London for Jews who had converted to Christianity, is established by Henry III.
  • Henry III meets with the nobles and church leaders to reaffirm the validity of Magna Carta in exchange for taxation.[4]

Levant

  • April An-Nasir Yusuf, Ayyubid ruler of Damascus, cedes Palestine, together with Jerusalem, Nablus and the coastline of Al-Sham to Aybak, Mamluk sultan of Egypt.

Asia

  • April 28 Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intent to preach the Lotus Sutra and Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō as the true Buddhism, thus founding Nichiren Buddhism.
  • May Louis IX (the Saint) dispatches William of Rubruck from Constantinople, on a missionary journey to Karakorum to seek an alliance against Syrian and Egyptian Muslims.[5]
  • Mongol forces under Hulagu Khan begin a campaign against the Nizari Ismaili State. An advance guard (12,000 men) under Kitbuqa captures several fortresses in Quhistan.
  • Mongol forces under Kublai Khan conquer the Dali Kingdom (modern-day Yunnan). The population migrates to Siam (modern Thailand).
  • Kublai Khan introduces the baisha xiyue song and dance suite to the music of Yunnan.

Literature

  • Matthew Paris, English Benedictine chronicler, completes the major part of his Chronica Majora, a chronicle of English history.

Religion

  • October Pope Innocent IV returns to Rome, after being deposed for 9 years by former Emperor Frederick II, whose clash forms an important chapter in the conflict between the Papal States and the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Innocent IV offers the crown of Sicily, which he controls, to Richard of Cornwall and Charles of Anjou, both of whom refuse, and later to the 8-year-old Edmund, son of Henry III.
  • The upper Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, the earliest important structure of Italian Gothic architecture, is completed in Assisi.
  • Sligo Abbey, a Dominican monastery, is founded by Maurice FitzGerald, Norman chief governor of Ireland.

Births

  • March 1 Mattia de Nazarei, Italian abbess and saint (d. 1319)
  • September 11 Dmitry Borisovich, Kievan nobleman (d. 1294)
  • October 17 Ivo of Kermartin, Breton priest and saint (d. 1303)
  • November 25 Katherine of England, English princess (d. 1257)
  • Amir Khusrau, Indian Sufi musician, poet and scholar (d. 1325)
  • Anna of Greater Poland, Polish princess and abbess (d. 1295)
  • Berengaria of Castile, Spanish princess and regent (d. 1300)
  • Blanche of France, daughter of Louis IX (the Saint) (d. 1323)
  • Eschiva of Ibelin, Outremer noblewoman and regent (d. 1312)
  • Eufemia of Greater Poland, Polish princess and nun (d. 1298)
  • Everhardt I, count of Limburg and Hohenlimburg (d. 1308)
  • Hugh II (de Lusignan), Cypriot ruler and regent (d. 1267)
  • John II (the One-Eyed), count of Holstein-Kiel (d. 1321)
  • Nikō, Japanese Buddhist monk and disciple (d. 1314)

Deaths

References

  1. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 233. ISBN 978-0241-29877-0.
  2. O'connor, Kevin (2003). The History of the Baltic States, p. 15. Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 0-313-32355-0.
  3. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 84–86. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. Davis, John Paul (2013). The Gothic King: A Biography of Henry III, p. 174. London: Peter Owen. ISBN 978-0-7206-1480-0.
  5. Hywel Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 142. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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