1240
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This article is about the year 1240.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1210s 1220s 1230s – 1240s – 1250s 1260s 1270s |
| Years: | 1237 1238 1239 – 1240 – 1241 1242 1243 |
| 1240 by topic | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| 1240 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1240 MCCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 1993 |
| Armenian calendar | 689 ԹՎ ՈՁԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5990 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -604–-603 |
| Bengali calendar | 647 |
| Berber calendar | 2190 |
| English Regnal year | 24 Hen. 3 – 25 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1784 |
| Burmese calendar | 602 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6748–6749 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年十二月初六日 (3876/3936-12-6) — to —
庚子年十二月十七日(3877/3937-12-17) |
| Coptic calendar | 956–957 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1232–1233 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5000–5001 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1296–1297 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1162–1163 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4341–4342 |
| Holocene calendar | 11240 |
| Iranian calendar | 618–619 |
| Islamic calendar | 637–638 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 1240 MCCXL |
| Korean calendar | 3573 |
| Minguo calendar | 672 before ROC 民前672年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1783 |
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Year 1240 (MCCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By area
[edit] Asia
- Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
- Tuan Mash'ika, an Arab, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu.
[edit] Europe
- July 15 – Battle of the Neva: Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes, saving Russia 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]
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- Saint Maurice starts to be portrayed as a Moor.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] References
- ^ Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
