1246

1246 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1246
MCCXLVI
Ab urbe condita1999
Armenian calendar695
ԹՎ ՈՂԵ
Assyrian calendar5996
Balinese saka calendar1167–1168
Bengali calendar652–653
Berber calendar2196
English Regnal year30 Hen. 3 – 31 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar1790
Burmese calendar608
Byzantine calendar6754–6755
Chinese calendar乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
3943 or 3736
    — to —
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
3944 or 3737
Coptic calendar962–963
Discordian calendar2412
Ethiopian calendar1238–1239
Hebrew calendar5006–5007
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1302–1303
 - Shaka Samvat1167–1168
 - Kali Yuga4346–4347
Holocene calendar11246
Igbo calendar246–247
Iranian calendar624–625
Islamic calendar643–644
Japanese calendarKangen 4
(寛元4年)
Javanese calendar1155–1156
Julian calendar1246
MCCXLVI
Korean calendar3579
Minguo calendar666 before ROC
民前666年
Nanakshahi calendar−222
Thai solar calendar1788–1789
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Wood-Snake)
1372 or 991 or 219
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Horse)
1373 or 992 or 220
Sultan Muhammad I (right) submits to King Ferdinand III (the Saint) (1883)

Year 1246 (MCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • February 28 – Siege of Jaén: Castilian forces, led by King Ferdinand III (the Saint), manage to take the city of Jaén from the Andalucians. In a combined assault with the knights of the Order of Santiago, the city is handed over by Sultan Muhammad I, who accepts Ferdinand's overlordship in exchange for a 20-year truce. The Emirate of Granada becomes a vassal state of the Kingdom of Castile.[1]
  • May 22 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king in Germany in opposition to Conrad IV of Germany and Conrad's father, the excommunicated emperor Frederick II.
  • June 15 – Battle of the Leitha River: Hungarian forces, under King Béla IV, defeat Duke Frederick II (the Quarrelsome) at the banks of the Leitha River. Frederick is killed (leaving no male heirs); the House of Babenberg is dissolved. Emperor Frederick II places the fiefs of Austria and Styria under his rule. This ends the Austrian claims to the western counties of Hungary.[2]
  • November – Michael II Asen, ruler (tsar) of the Bulgarian Empire, succeeds his brother Kaliman I (possibly poisoned). He confirms the reconquest of Bulgarian territories against John III (Doukas Vatatzes), Byzantine ruler of the Empire of Nicaea.[3]
  • Frederick II suppresses a Sicilian revolt and deports the remaining Muslim inhabitants of Lucera (approximate date).

Mongol Empire

Levant

  • Alice of Champagne, queen and regent of Jerusalem, dies after a 3-year reign. She is succeeded by her son, Henry I of Cyprus (the Fat), who appoints Balian III of Beirut as his bailli and confirms Philip of Montfort in the possession of Tyre.[5]
  • 2 October – Damascus falls to the Ayyubid vizier Mu'in al-Din Hasan ibn al-Shaykh after a siege of some four months.

Asia

  • February 16 – Emperor Go-Saga abdicates the throne in favor of his 3-year-old son, Go-Fukakusa, who becomes the 89th Emperor of Japan.

By topic

Arts

  • Robert Grosseteste translates Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from Greek into Latin, which marks the true start of the rediscovery of the philosopher by Medieval Europe.[6]

Nature

  • The perihelion of the Earth's orbit coincides with the December solstice.

Religion

  • Beaulieu Abbey in England, founded earlier by King John, is dedicated in the presence of King Henry III, Queen Eleanor and 7-year-old Prince Edward.
  • Katedralskolan in Uppsala is established beside Uppsala Cathedral as a seminary for the clergy (the founding year according to tradition).

Births

  • March 8 – Nikkō Shōnin, Japanese religious leader (d. 1333)
  • March 24 – Henry Bate of Mechelen, Brabantian philosopher
  • September 14 – John FitzAlan, English nobleman (d. 1272)
  • Angelo da Furci, Italian priest, orator and theologian (d. 1327)
  • Drakpa Odzer, Tibetan Imperial Preceptor (Dishi) (d. 1303)
  • Enrique Enríquez (the Elder), Castilian nobleman (d. 1323)
  • Hugh of Lincoln (Little Saint), English Jewish boy (d. 1255)
  • Jutta of Denmark (or Judith), Danish princess and abbess
  • Konoe Motohira, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 1268)
  • Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian monk, friar and mystic (d. 1305)
  • Paolo Malatesta, Italian nobleman and diplomat (d. 1285)
  • Riccobaldo of Ferrara, Italian chronicler and geographer
  • Safi al-Din al-Hindi, Indian scholar and theologian (d. 1315)
  • Takezaki Suenaga, Japanese retainer and samurai (d. 1314)
  • Teodosije the Hilandarian, Serbian hagiographer (d. 1328)

Deaths

  • February 25 – Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Welsh prince (b. 1212)
  • April 15 – Peter González (Telmo), Castilian priest (b 1190)
  • May 19 – Umiliana de' Cerchi, Italian noblewoman (b. 1219)
  • June 4 – Isabella of Angoulême, queen consort of England
  • June 15 – Frederick II, duke of Austria and Styria (b. 1211)
  • June 16 – Lutgardis (or Lutgarde), Flemish nun (b. 1182)
  • June 28 – Al-Mansur Ibrahim, Ayyubid governor and ruler
  • September 20 – Michael of Chernigov, Kievan Grand Prince
  • September 30 – Yaroslav II, Kievan Grand Prince (b. 1191)
  • October 22 – Mieszko II (the Fat), duke of Kalisz-Wieluń
  • November 3 – Robert de Bingham, bishop of Salisbury
  • November 8 – Berengaria (the Great), queen of Castile
  • Alice of Champagne, queen consort of Cyprus (b. 1193)
  • Ednyfed Fychan, Welsh nobleman and knight (b. 1170)
  • Elias of Dereham, English master stonemason designer
  • Erard of Brienne-Ramerupt, French nobleman (b. 1170)
  • Eva Marshal, Cambro-Norman noblewoman (b. 1203)
  • Geoffrey II of Villehardouin, prince of Achaea (b. 1195)
  • Henry Audley (or Aldithel), English nobleman (b. 1175)
  • Hōjō Tsunetoki, Japanese nobleman and regent (b. 1224)
  • Kaliman Asen I, ruler of the Bulgarian Empire (b. 1234)
  • Kaykhusraw II, ruler of the Sultanate of Rum (b. 1221)
  • Matteo Rosso Orsini, Italian nobleman and politician
  • Muhammad Al-Makki, Arab ruler and explorer (b. 1145)
  • Richard FitzRoy, illegitimate son of John (Lackland)
  • Tello Téllez de Meneses, bishop of Palencia (b. 1170)
  • Temüge (or Otgon), brother of Genghis Khan (b. 1168)
  • Theodora Angelina, Byzantine noblewoman (b. 1190)
  • Walter IV (the Great), French nobleman and knight
  • Walter Stewart, Scottish politician and High Steward
  • Wansong Xingxiu, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 1166)

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. ^ Žemlička, Josef (2011). "The Realm of Přemysl Ottokar II and Wenceslas II", p. 107. In Pánek, Jaroslav; Tůma, Oldřich (eds.). A History of the Czech Lands, pp. 106–116. Charles University in Prague. ISBN 978-80-246-1645-2.
  3. ^ Hywel Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 141. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  4. ^ Daftary, Farhad (1992). The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge University Press. pp. 418–420. ISBN 978-0-521-42974-0.
  5. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 192. ISBN 978-0241-29877-0.
  6. ^ Munro, John H. (2003). "The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution". The International History Review. 15 (3): 506–562.