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Heads of State
Year of the Earth Dog戊戌( at the beginning of the year Fire Rooster丁酉)
Syria: 1549/50 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Eastern and Northern Europe
- February 7: In Russia invaded in the time of the Mongols Mongols under Batu Khan storms the previously besieged capital Vladimir conquer the Principality of Vladimir - Suzdal, massacre the population and burn the city down.
- March 4: The Grand Prince of Vladimir - Suzdal Yuri II, is with his troops on the river Sit in today's Yaroslavl Oblast defeated by the horsemen of Batu Khan and killed in his flight. Russia gets for decades under the influence of the Mongols.
- Hordes of Batu Khan destroyed after a fierce resistance of the inhabitants of Moscow.
- The Principality of Belo Ozero in northern Russia is founded.
- Mindaugas I. becomes King of Lithuania.
Holy Roman Empire
- Count Adolf IV waived the rule in Schauenburg and Holstein in favor of his sons, John I. and I. Gerhard, who rule the county until 1261 together.
- The Brandenburg tithe dispute is ended.
Iberian Peninsula
- September 28: The King James I of Aragon succeeds with his troops as part of the Reconquista, after five months of siege, the capture of the city of Valencia held by the Almohads.
- Establishment of the Nasrid dynasty by Ibn Ahmar. Granada detaches from the dynasty of the Almohads.
- James I of Aragon conquered Sagunto.
Southeast Asia
- The Thai Kingdom of Sukhothai makes from the Khmer empire of Angkor independent. It is considered a forerunner of today's Thailand.
City rights and notices Ersturkundliche
- February 22: Reichenbach / Upper Lusatia is first mentioned in a charter granting the Bohemian king Wenzel St. for the lied in Ostritz Cistercian monastery Marienthal.
- First mention of Buchholterberg, Dully, Jarchau, Lutschental, Opfershofen (now part of the municipality Bürglen TG), Reinbek, sub Wurmsbach and Schnait.
- Bad Oldesloe receives Lubeck city law.
- The St. Martin's in Freiburg im Breisgau is first mentioned.
Religion
- William of Saint -Amour is legal Magister at the University of Paris.
- Conrad I of Hochstaden is Archbishop of Cologne.
- Treaty of Stensby between Valdemar II (Denmark) and the Teutonic Knights. This win is back in Estonia.
- Under the third Grand Master of the Dominicans, Raymond of Peñafort, studies of Oriental Languages in Barcelona and Tunis are established.
- Consecration of the first stone monastery church - forerunner of the preacher church in Erfurt (see Meister Eckhart )
Born
- Fina, patron saint of San Gimignano and Blessed († 1253 )
- Waldemar III. , Duke of Schleswig ( † 1257 )
Died
- March 4: Joan of England, daughter of King John (* 1210)
- March 6: Al- Kamil, Sultan of the Ayyubid fourth in Egypt since 1218 (* 1180)
- MARCH 19: Henry I, the first heir to the throne of Cracow (* 1163 )
- MARCH 26: Henry I of Müllenark, Archbishop of Cologne (c. 1190 )
- March: Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1218 (* 1189 )
- 9 June: Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester