1291
This article is about the year 1291. For the number, see 1291 (number).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1260s 1270s 1280s – 1290s – 1300s 1310s 1320s |
| Years: | 1288 1289 1290 – 1291 – 1292 1293 1294 |
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| 1291 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1291 MCCXCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2044 |
| Armenian calendar | 740 ԹՎ ՉԽ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6041 |
| Bengali calendar | 698 |
| Berber calendar | 2241 |
| English Regnal year | 19 Edw. 1 – 20 Edw. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1835 |
| Burmese calendar | 653 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6799–6800 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3987 or 3927 — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3988 or 3928 |
| Coptic calendar | 1007–1008 |
| Discordian calendar | 2457 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1283–1284 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5051–5052 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1347–1348 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1213–1214 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4392–4393 |
| Holocene calendar | 11291 |
| Igbo calendar | 291–292 |
| Iranian calendar | 669–670 |
| Islamic calendar | 689–691 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōō 4 (正応４年) |
| Julian calendar | 1291 MCCXCI |
| Korean calendar | 3624 |
| Minguo calendar | 621 before ROC 民前621年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1833–1834 |
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Year 1291 (MCCXCI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Spring – Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi set sail from Genoa with the goal of reaching India; they never return.
- May 10 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England in mediating resolution of the succession crisis created by the death of King Alexander III of Scotland five years earlier.
- August 1 – According to tradition, the Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, the "three forest cantons", at Rütli by the Federal Charter.
- Sancho IV of Castile captures Tarifa from the Moors.
- The Habsburgs acquire the Swiss city of Lucerne.
- Pope Nicholas IV confirms the independence of San Marino via papal bull.
- All glassmakers in Venice are forced to move to the island of Murano in order to contain the risk of fire, thus establishing the glass industry there.
- Klenová Castle is constructed in southern Bohemia as part of a frontier defense system.
- King Andrew III of Hungary gives royal town privileges to Bratislava, the present-day capital of Slovakia.
Asia
- May 18 – Al-Ashraf Khalil of Egypt captures Acre, thus exterminating the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (the final Christian landholding remaining from the Crusades), and ending the Ninth Crusade and effectively all Crusades, by eliminating the possibility of further attacks on the Holy Land (see Siege of Acre (1291)).
- The artificial Kunming Lake is constructed as a reservoir for Dadu in Yuan Dynasty in China by famous engineer and astronomer Guo Shoujing.
- Emperor Kameyama of Japan establishes the Zen Buddhist temple of Nanzenji in Kyoto.
By topic
Markets
- Four towns of the county of Holland (Dordrecht, Haarlem, Leiden and Alkmaar) and two of the county of Zeeland (Middelburg and Zierikzee) accept for the first time to collectively secure a loan by their sovereign, Floris V. This system gives important securities to the lenders and allows the ruler to access the same low interest rates as the cities’ governments.[1]
Births
- February 8 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
- October 31 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (d. 1361)
- Pope Clement VI (d. 1352)
- Theodore I of Montferrat (d. 1338)
- Aimone of Savoy (d. 1343)
- Margareta Ebner, German nun (d. 1351)
Deaths
- March 10 – Arghun, Mongol ruler in Persia
- May 20 –Sufi Saint Sayyid Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari
- June 18 – King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
- June 26 – Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III of England
- July 15 – Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
- Hong Dagu, Korean military leader (b. 1244)
- Talabuga, khan of the Blue Horde
- Tanḥum Yerushalmi, 13th Century Judeo-Arabic Commentator and leader of Egyptian Jewish Community
References
- ↑ Zuijderduijn, Jaco (2010). "The emergence of provincial debt in the county of Holland (thirteenth-sixteenth centuries)". European Review of Economic History 14 (2).
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