1253
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
Decades: | 1220s 1230s 1240s – 1250s – 1260s 1270s 1280s |
Years: | 1250 1251 1252 – 1253 – 1254 1255 1256 |
1253 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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Art and literature | |
1253 in poetry | |
Gregorian calendar | 1253 MCCLIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2006 |
Armenian calendar | 702 ԹՎ ՉԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6003 |
Bengali calendar | 660 |
Berber calendar | 2203 |
English Regnal year | 37 Hen. 3 – 38 Hen. 3 |
Buddhist calendar | 1797 |
Burmese calendar | 615 |
Byzantine calendar | 6761–6762 |
Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3949 or 3889 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3950 or 3890 |
Coptic calendar | 969–970 |
Discordian calendar | 2419 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1245–1246 |
Hebrew calendar | 5013–5014 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1309–1310 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1175–1176 |
- Kali Yuga | 4354–4355 |
Holocene calendar | 11253 |
Igbo calendar | 253–254 |
Iranian calendar | 631–632 |
Islamic calendar | 650–651 |
Japanese calendar | Kenchō 5 (建長5年) |
Julian calendar | 1253 MCCLIII |
Korean calendar | 3586 |
Minguo calendar | 659 before ROC 民前659年 |
Thai solar calendar | 1795–1796 |
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Year 1253 (MCCLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- July – William II, Count of Holland defeats the Flemish army at Westkapelle.
- July 6 – Mindaugas is crowned as the only King of Lithuania.
- A series of naval wars begins between the Italian city-states of Genoa and Venice, which will continue sporadically until 1371.
- King Henry III of England meets with English nobles and church leaders to reaffirm the validity of the Magna Carta.
- Pope Innocent IV returns to Rome, having left 9 years earlier in 1244 to depose Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, and being unable to return until after Frederick's death, due to the agitation throughout Europe caused by that action.
- Having rebuffed the armed forces of Conrad IV of Germany, Pope Innocent IV offers Sicily to Edmund, son of King Henry III of England.
- Halych–Volynia becomes a vassal state to the expanding Mongol Empire.
- Matthew Paris writes Historia Anglorum, a work on English history.
- The Basilica of San Francesco, the earliest important structure in the Italian Gothic style of architecture, is completed in Assisi, Italy.
- Sligo Abbey is built in Sligo, Ireland.
- The Domus Conversorum, a building and institution in London for Jews who had converted to Christianity, is established by King Henry III of England.
Asia
- April 28 – Nichiren, a 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 – King Louis IX of France dispatches William of Rubruck from Constantinople on a missionary journey to convert the Tatars of central and eastern Asia. Later that year, William records the first meeting between European Christians and Buddhists.
- The Mongol Empire launches attacks on the Muslim cities of Baghdad and Cairo.
- The Mongol Empire destroys the Dali Kingdom in modern Yunnan and incorporates the region into their empire.
- Kublai Khan introduces the baisha xiyue song and dance suite to the music of Yunnan.
- The Chinese era Baoyou begins in the Southern Song dynasty of China.
- The Mongols defeat the Thai confederacy.
Births
- March 20 – Magadu, renamed Wareru, founder of Ramanya Kingdom, renamed Hanthawady Kingdom of Pegu (b. a commoner; d. on a Saturday in January 1307)
- October 17 – Saint Ivo of Kermartin, French canon lawyer
- probable
- John I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1294)
- Hugh II of Cyprus (d. 1267)
Deaths
- January 18 – King Henry I of Cyprus (b. 1217)
- January 19 – Dōgen, Japanese founder of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism
- April 3 – Saint Richard of Chichester
- June 24 – Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (b. 1197)
- July 8 – Theobald I of Navarre (b. 1201)
- August 11 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)
- September 23 – Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
- October 9 – Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and theologian
References
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