1240
This article is about the year 1240. For the number, see 1240 (number).
Year 1240 (MCCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events that occurred this year are as follows:
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
- June 12 – The Disputation of Paris begins at the court of Louis IX of France where four rabbis defend the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's accusations of blasphemy.
- 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)