1240
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 1240 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1240 MCCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 1993 |
| Armenian calendar | 689 ԹՎ ՈՁԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5990 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1161–1162 |
| 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 (Earth Pig) 3937 or 3730 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3938 or 3731 |
| Coptic calendar | 956–957 |
| Discordian calendar | 2406 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1232–1233 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5000–5001 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1296–1297 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1161–1162 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4340–4341 |
| Holocene calendar | 11240 |
| Igbo calendar | 240–241 |
| Iranian calendar | 618–619 |
| Islamic calendar | 637–638 |
| Japanese calendar | En'ō 2 / Ninji 1 (仁治元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1149–1150 |
| Julian calendar | 1240 MCCXL |
| Korean calendar | 3573 |
| Minguo calendar | 672 before ROC 民前672年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −228 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1782–1783 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1366 or 985 or 213 — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1367 or 986 or 214 |
Year 1240 (MCCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Africa
- As-Salih Ayyub becomes Sultan of Egypt after deposing his brother Al-Adil II
Asia
- December 6 – Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
- Tuan Mash'ika, an Arab, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu.
Europe
- July 15 – Battle of the Neva: Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes, saving the Novgorod Republic 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 from the Muslims, as part of the Reconquista.[1]
By topic
Religion
- June 12 – The Disputation of Paris begins at the court of Louis IX of France, where four rabbis defend the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's accusations of blasphemy.
- Saint Maurice starts to be portrayed as a Moor.
Births
- September 29 – Margaret of England, queen consort of the Scots (d. 1275)
- Abulafia, Maltese Jewish philosopher (d. 1292)
- Pope Benedict XI (d. 1304)
- Pope Clement V (d. 1314)
- Sigerus of Brabant, French theologian (d. 1284)
- Albert the Degenerate, landgrave of Thuringia (approximate date; d. 1314)
- Peter III of Aragon, King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and King of Valencia, monarch (d. 1285)
Deaths
- January 1 (VS Māgha Śukla 5) – Vastupala
- April 11 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
- May 27 – William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (b. 1166)
- October 13 – Razia Sultana of Delhi (b. 1205)
- November 16 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (b. 1165)
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.