1267

'Years:' 1264 1265 1266 - 1267 - 1268 1269 1270

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

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

Contents

Events

Europe

War and politics

Culture

Asia and Africa

Births

Deaths

Events

Europe

War and politics

★ February 16 - King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile sign a treaty, Badajoz Convention, determining the border between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Leon, ensuring the portuguese sovereignity over Algarve.

★ The Second Barons' War in England ends, as the rebels and King Henry III of England agree to peace terms as laid out in the Dictum of Kenilworth.

★ King Henry III of England acknowledges Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's title of Prince of Wales in the Treaty of Montgomery.

★ Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople gifts the Principality of Achaea to King Charles I of Sicily in the Treaty of Viterbo in the hopes that Charles could help him restore the Latin Empire.

★ The city of Ostrava was founded.

Culture

★ Roger Bacon completes his work ''Opus Majus'' and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass. Bacon also completes ''Opus Minus'', a summary of ''Opus Majus'', later in the same year.

★ The leadership of Vienna forces Jews to wear ''Pileum cornutum'',a cone-shaped head dress, in addition to the yellow badges Jews were already forced to wear.

★ In England, the Statute of Marlborough is passed, the oldest English law still (partially) in force.

Asia and Africa

★ The "Grand Capital" is constructed in Khanbaliq (present-day Beijing by Kublai Khan, having moved the capital of the Mongol Empire there three years prior.

★ Malik ul Salih establishes Samudra Pasai, the first Muslim state in Indonesia.

★ Spain attempts an invasion of Morocco, but the Marinids successfully defend against the invasion and drive out Spanish forces.

Births

★ February 3 - Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel (died 1302)

★ August 10 - King James II of Aragon (died 1327)

★ December 17 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (died 1324)

★ Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (died 1337)

Deaths

★ John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel (born 1223)

★ Hugh II of Cyprus (born 1253)

★ Lars, Archbishop of Uppsala