1269

'Years:' 1266 1267 1268 - 1269 - 1270 1271 1272

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

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

Contents

Events

Europe

Africa

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

Europe

★ June 19 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.

★ Pélerin de Maricourt first describes magnetic poles and remarks on the nonexistence of isolated magnetic poles.

★ King Otakar II of Bohemia inherits Carinthia and part of Carniola, making him the most powerful prince within the Holy Roman Empire; the empire lacking an emperor during the ongoing ''great interregnum'', Otakar II was one of the most powerful men in Europe.

★ The construction of Blair Castle in Scotland is begun by John Comyn.

Africa

★ The Almohad dynasty of caliphs (not universally accepted) that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain) is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.

★ The Berber Marinid completes the conquest of Morocco, replacing the Almohad dynasty which it defeated in Marrakesh.

Asia

★ The Eastern Orthodox Patriarchy of Antioch returns to Antioch after a 171-year exile, during which it had been replaced by the Latin Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

★ Philip of Artois

★ Huang Gongwang, Chinese painter (died 1354)

★ Vedantadesika, Hindu poet and philosopher

Deaths

★ John de Balliol, father of John Balliol, King of Scotland

★ Svarn, King of Galicia