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'Years:' 1238 1239 1240 - 1241 - 1242 1243 1244

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

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

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March 18 - Mongols defeat a feudal Polish army in the Battle of Chmielnick.

★ April 9 - Mongols of Golden Horde under the command of Baidar, Kadan and Orda Khan defeat feudal Polish nobility, including Knights Templar, in the battle of Liegnitz.

★ April 11 - Batu Khan and Subutai defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.

★ April 27 - Mongols defeat Bela IV of Hungary in the battle of Sajo.

★ October 25 - Pope Celestine IV succeeds Pope Gregory IX as the 179th pope.

★ Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic saga writer, is murdered by Gissur Þorvaldsson, an emissary of King Haakon IV of Norway.

Births

★ September 4 - King Alexander III of Scotland (died 1286)

★ Eleanor of Castile, queen of Edward I of England (died 1290)

Deaths

★ April 9 - King Henry II of Poland

★ June 24 - Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria

★ August 10 - Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (born c. 1184)

★ August 22 - Pope Gregory IX

★ September 23 - Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet and politician (born 1178)

★ September 26 - Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese poet

★ October 25 - Pope Celestine IV

★ December 1 - Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1214)

★ Bernardo di Quintavalle

★ Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany

★ Ögedei Khan

★ Valdemar II of Denmark (born 1170)