For broader historical context, see 13th century.

Years: 1248 1249 1250 - 1251 - 1252 1253 1254

Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s - 1250s - 1260s 1270s 1280s

Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

Contents

1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 See also

Events

Europe

• The first Shepherds' Crusade, a domestic French uprising in response to events in Egypt during the Seventh Crusade, occurs.
• King Alexander III of Scotland marries Margaret, daughter of King Henry III of England, precipitating a power struggle between the two monarchs.
• Andrew of Longumeau , dispatched two years earlier by King Louis IX of France as an ambassador to the Mongols, returns to his king with reports from the Mongols and Tartary; his mission is considered a failure.
• Mindaugas of Lithuania is baptized, in prelude to his crowning as King of Lithuania in 1253.
• Alexander Nevsky signs the first peace treaty between Kievan Rus' and Norway.
• King Conrad IV of Germany invades Italy, but fails to subdue the supporters of Pope Innocent IV.
• The German city of Berlin, founded some fifty years earlier, receives its city charter.
• Otakar II of Bohemia, later to become King of Bohemia, is elected Duke of Austria.
• The earliest known manuscript of The Proverbs of Alfred, a collection of sayings of England's Alfred the Great, is written.

Asia

• Möngke Khan is elected as the fourth khan of the Mongol Empire.
• Carving of the Tripitaka Koreana, a collection of Buddhist scriptures recorded on some 81,000 wooden blocks, is completed.

Births

• Hojo Tokimune, 8th regent of the Kamakura shogunate (d. 1284)

Deaths

• Peter I, Duke of Brittany (b. circa 1190)
• Bohemund V of Antioch
• Matthias II, Duke of Lorraine
• Eljigidei, Mongol commander of Persia
• Isobel of Huntingdon (b. 1199)

See also

List of state leaders in 1251