1240

'Years:' 1237 1238 1239 - 1240 - 1241 1242 1243

'Decades:' 1210s 1220s 1230s - '1240s' - 1250s 1260s 1270s

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

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Monarchs/Presidents

Events

★ Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.

★ Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeats Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina, beginning the Mali Empire.

★ July 15 - Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva, saving Russia from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North.

★ End of the civil war era in Norway.

★ Saint Maurice is started to be portrayed as Moor.

Births

★ Abulafia, Maltese Jewish philosopher (died 1292)

★ Pope Benedict XI (died 1304)

★ Stephen V of Hungary (died 1272)

★ Sigerus of Brabant, French theologian (died 1284)

★ Albert the Degenerate, landgrave of Thuringia (approximate date; died 1314)

Deaths

★ April 11 - Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd

★ Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher

★ Jacques de Vitry, French historian and theologian (born c. 1180)

★ William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (born 1166)

Monarchs/Presidents

★ Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276)

★ Castile - Ferdinand III, the Saint King of Castile and Leon (reigned from 1217 to 1252)