13TH CENTURY

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the '13th century' was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. In the history of European culture, this period is considered part of the High Middle Ages, and after its conquests in Asia the Mongol Empire stretched from Korea to Eastern Europe.

Contents
Events
Significant people
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Decades and Years
External links

Events


The Mongols, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, overran most of Asia, thus creating the second largest empire to ever exist, surpassed only by the British Empire. They achieved this success in large part due to their amazing horse archers.


1199 — Pope Innocent III writes to Kaloyan, inviting him to unite the Bulgarian Church with the Roman Catholic Church.

1204 — Fourth Crusade sacks Byzantine Constantinople and creates the Latin Empire.

1205 — Battle of Adrianople (1205): Tsar Kaloyan with his army crushed the (otherwise unbeaten) Fourth Crusade's knights and the soldiers of Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople who was attacking Bulgarian lands with the goal to conquer them.

1206 — Mongols united under Temüjin, who is proclaimed "Genghis Khan".

1212 — The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in Iberia sees the beginning of a rapid Christian reconquest of the southern half of the Iberian peninsula, with the defeat of Moorish forces.

1215 — King John of England forced to sign Magna Carta at Runnymede.

1227 — Genghis Khan dies during the prolonged siege of the Western Xia Dynasty capital (located in northwestern China), while the Tangut Western Xia Dynasty falls soon after.

1234 — the Jin Dynasty of northeastern China is conquered by the forces of the Mongol ruler Ögedei Khan.

1238 — The Thai Kingdom of Sukhothai is established, with Theravada Buddhism as the state religion. Later in the century it vassalises significant parts of modern Thailand, Laos, Burma, and Malaysia.

1249 — End of the Portuguese Reconquista against the Moors, when King Afonso III of Portugal reconquers the Algarve.

1250-1275 — the Arab or Persian born Muslim Kuwabara (Chinese: Pu Shou-geng) was appointed by the Song Dynasty Chinese government as the Commissioner of Merchant Shipping for Quanzhou. He published a detailed monograph of the shipping industry and maritime economy of China's seaports during his tenure there.

1258 — Baghdad (Iraq), seat of the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate, is besieged and burnt to the ground by the forces of the Mongol commander Hulagu Khan. The last Abbasid Caliph Al-Musta'sim is executed by means of trampling horses.

1259 — the Mongol ruler Möngke Khan is killed in battle by a Chinese cannon blast at Fishing Town, Chongqing, located in southwestern China.

1260 — the Mongols are defeated by the Egyptian Mamluks in the Battle of Ain Jalut.

1270 — Restoration of Solomonic dynasty in Ethiopia, deposing the Zagwe dynasty.
Portrait of the Chinese Zen Buddhist Wuzhun Shifan, painted in 1238 AD, Song Dynasty.


1279, the Battle of Yamen marks the fall of the Chinese Song Dynasty and the rise of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty led by Khublai Khan.

1282 — Aragon acquires Sicily, after the Sicilian Vespers.

1284 — Peterhouse, Cambridge founded by Hugo de Balsham, the Bishop of Ely.

1291 — The Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden.

Andrew II of Hungary signs the Golden Bull which afferms the privileges of Hungarian nobility.

Bantu-speaking peoples arrive in modern Angola, partially displacing the original Khoisan inhabitants.

Battle of Bouvines

Persian historian Rashid al-Din records eleven Buddhist texts circulating in Arabic translation.

James I of Aragon takes control of Balearic Islands and Valencia.

Marco Polo and his family reach China.

Norway cedes the Isle of Man to Scotland, following the signing of the Treaty of Perth.

Ögedei Khan establishes a Mongolian dynasty in China. Some Mongol leaders convert from Tantric Buddhism to Islam.

Teutonic Knights begin activity in Eastern Europe.

Theravada overtakes Mahayana as the dominant form of Buddhism in Cambodia.

★ A period of civil unrest, ''Sturlungaöld'', leads to Iceland becoming part of the Kingdom of Norway.

★ End of Hohenstaufen dynasty at the Battle of Tagliacozzo. The Kingdom of Sicily goes to French Anjou house.

★ Fall of the Ghana Empire.

★ Fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. Sicily and Naples are acquired by the French count Charles I of Naples.

★ Fifth through eighth crusades of western European kingdoms against Islam.

Finland gets its first city, Turku.

★ First European universities founded.

★ Most of Asia and Eastern Europe is conquered and incorporated into the Mongol Empire.

★ The Medieval Warm Period ends.

★ The Utiguri Bulgar state on the Volga vanishes from history.

★ The Chinese become familiar with the story of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

Significant people


William Wallace of Scotland.


Albertus Magnus, German philosopher and theologian

Alexander of Hales, philosopher and theologian

Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir

Baibars, Mamluk sultan

Béla IV of Hungary rebuilder of Hungary after the devastating Mongol invasion

Birger jarl, Swedish statesman, earl, and founder of Stockholm

Bonaventure, Franciscan theologian

Ch'in Chiu-Shao, Chinese mathematician

Dante Alighieri, Italian writer

Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order

Frederick II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

Genghis Khan, founder of Mongol Empire

Giotto di Bondone Italian painter

Ibn Taymiyyah, famous Hanbali, Salafi Scholar of Islam

Ivan Asen II, Emperor of Bulgaria

Kaloyan, Emperor of Bulgaria

Kitbuqa, Christian Mongol commander

Kublai Khan, Khan ruler, founder of Yuan Dynasty in China

Lembitu, Estonian ruler

Louis IX of France, St. Louis, French king and crusader

Emperor Ningzong of Song, ruler of China

Petrus Peregrinus, scientist

Qutuz, Mamluk sultan

Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher

Robert Grosseteste, English statesman, theologian, and scientist

Roger Bacon, Franciscan, philosopher, and scientist

Saadi Persian poet

Snorri Sturluson, historian and saga-writer

Sundiata Keita semi-historical founder of the Mali Empire

Thomas Aquinas, theologian

Wen Tianxiang, Chinese Prime Minister

William Wallace, Scottish national leader

William Marshal, knight and statesman

Yang Hui, Chinese mathematician

Zhao Mengfu, Chinese painter

Inventions, discoveries, introductions



List of 13th century inventions

★ The motet form originates out of the Ars antiqua tradition of Western European music.

Manuscript culture develops out of this time period in cities in Europe, which denotes a shift from monasteries to cities for books.

''Pecia'' system of copying books develops in Italian university-towns and was taken up by the University of Paris in the middle of the century.

★ Wooden movable type printing invented by the Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen (official) in 1298.

★ The earliest known rockets, landmines, and handguns are made by the Chinese for use in warfare.

★ The Chinese adopt the windmill from the Islamic world.

Decades and Years


External links



The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries by James J. Walsh, 1907

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