1261

'Years:' 1258 1259 1260 - 1261 - 1262 1263 1264

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

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

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ January - Pope bans the movement of Flagellants.

★ July 25 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest of the Latin Empire.

★ 15 August - Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.

★ August 29 - Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander III as the 182nd pope. He was the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first.

★ The population of Greenland accepts the overlordship of the King of Norway.

★ The Japanese Bun'ō era ends, and the Kōchō era begins.

★ The Convent of Wurmsbach is established in Switzerland.

★ Baibars establishes a puppet Caliphate in Cairo.

★ Bela IV of Hungary repels a Tatar invasion.

Births

★ February 1 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (died 1326)

★ October 9 - King Denis of Portugal (died 1325)

★ Daniel of Moscow, son of Alexander Nevsky

Deaths

★ February 28 - Henry III, Duke of Brabant

★ May 25 - Pope Alexander IV

★ September 18 - Konrad von Hochstaden, Archbishop of Cologne

★ Plaisance of Antioch, regent

★ Qin Jiushao, Chinese mathematician of the Song Dynasty (born 1202)