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'Decades:' 1230s 1240s 1250s - '1260s' - 1270s 1280s 1290s

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

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ King Mindaugas of Lithuania renounces Christianity, returning to his pagan roots and reverting to Grand Duke of Lithuania.

★ The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into a treaty establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges Norwegian King Haakon IV as its ruler.

★ Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.

★ King Henry III of England obtains a papal bull releasing him from the Provisions of Oxford, preceding the Second Barons' War, a civil war started in 1263.

★ King Mengrai of the Lannathai kingdom in present day Thailand founds the city of Chiang Rai as the kingdom's first capital.

★ Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, "Le Jeu de la Feuillee".

★ Richard of Chichester is canonized as a saint; he is best known for authoring the prayer later adapted into the song ''Day by Day'' in the musical Godspell.

Births

★ July 2 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (died 1312)

★ Ladislaus IV of Hungary (died 1290)

★ Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (died 1326)

Deaths

★ July 15 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (born 1222)

★ Aegidius of Assisi, companion of Saint Francis of Assisi

★ Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism

★ Matilda II of Boulogne, Queen of Portugal, spouse of King Afonso III of Portugal (born 1202)