1240
This article is about the year 1240. For the number, see 1240 (number).
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
Decades: | 1210s 1220s 1230s – 1240s – 1250s 1260s 1270s |
Years: | 1237 1238 1239 – 1240 – 1241 1242 1243 |
1240 by topic | |
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State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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1240 in poetry | |
Gregorian calendar | 1240 MCCXL |
Ab urbe condita | 1993 |
Armenian calendar | 689 ԹՎ ՈՁԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 5990 |
Bengali calendar | 647 |
Berber calendar | 2190 |
English Regnal year | 24 Hen. 3 – 25 Hen. 3 |
Buddhist calendar | 1784 |
Burmese calendar | 602 |
Byzantine calendar | 6748–6749 |
Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3936 or 3876 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3937 or 3877 |
Coptic calendar | 956–957 |
Discordian calendar | 2406 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1232–1233 |
Hebrew calendar | 5000–5001 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1296–1297 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1162–1163 |
- Kali Yuga | 4341–4342 |
Holocene calendar | 11240 |
Igbo calendar | 240–241 |
Iranian calendar | 618–619 |
Islamic calendar | 637–638 |
Japanese calendar | En'ō 2 / Ninji 1 (仁治元年) |
Julian calendar | 1240 MCCXL |
Korean calendar | 3573 |
Minguo calendar | 672 before ROC 民前672年 |
Thai solar calendar | 1782–1783 |
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Year 1240 (MCCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Asia
- Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
- Tuan Mash'ika, an Arab, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu.
Europe
- July 15 – Battle of the Neva: Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes, saving the Novgorod Republic from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North.
- The civil war era in Norway ends.
- The Flemish village Kaprijke is recognized as a city.
- Sancho II of Portugal conquers the cities of Ayamonte and Cacella over the Muslims as part of the Reconquista.[1]
By topic
Religion
- Saint Maurice starts to be portrayed as a Moor.
Births
- Abulafia, Maltese Jewish philosopher (d. 1292)
- Pope Benedict XI (d. 1304)
- Sigerus of Brabant, French theologian (d. 1284)
- Albert the Degenerate, landgrave of Thuringia (approximate date; d. 1314)
- Peter III of Aragon, King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and King of Valencia, very important monarch. (dead in 1285)
Deaths
- April 11 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
- November 10 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (b. 1165)
- William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (b. 1166)
References
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