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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Sheep己未(at the beginning of earth - horse戊午)

Syria: 1570/71 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Byzantine- Frankish wars

Asia

• Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Yuan Dynasty in northern China is the Great Khan.

• Meng Rai the Great becomes ruler of the Thai Empire Ngoen Yang.

Europe

• May 7: Cologne receives by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden staple rights.
• MAY 28: The Treaty of Paris between Henry III. of England and Louis IX. France regulates the ownership claims of England to the French territory. Ludwig reached the renunciation of England to the Normandy and other regions as well as fealty to the English possessions in southwest France.
• August 5: Skirmish Skuodas; Victory of the Livonian Order branch under the Landmeister Burkhardt of Hornhausen about attacking Samogitians
• In the commission of Westminster (Provisions of Westminster ), among other things determined that a magnate Committee to oversee all government transactions with 15 members in the future and the king is obliged to convene a parliament three times a year ( see History of England ).
• Agnes of Silesia - Liegnitz is the second wife of Ulrich I., the founder, Count of Württemberg.

City rights and notices Ersturkundliche

• Benken, Bünzen, Courtepin, Fischingen TG, Gipf AG, Greppen, Hausach, Holder Bank, Jaberg, Leinzell, New Church, Vyšší Brod ( German Hohenfurth ) Schupfart, Wies, Willadingen and Wolf are first mentioned.
• The Upper Castle in Siegen is first mentioned.
• Amersfoort is replaced by Hendrik van Vianden city rights.

Economy

• Germany: " From March to August is hardly rain, and there's an abundance of all fruits, especially of wine, such that the empty drums to a greater value than were the wine itself " (see links).

Culture

• To 1259: Bologna publishes the oldest known provisions on the library.

Religion

• At the General Chapter of the Dominicans in Valenciennes (Flanders) which, inter alia, be decided by Albertus Magnus with developed new study conditions. Thus, the study of Artes is liberal and allows solemne of studying spoken as Partikularstudium first time. For the nunneries a rigorous exam is provided (see stabilitas loci ).
• Thomas Aquinas teaches in the next ten years in Orvieto, Viterbo and Rome.
• Bonaventure wrote the mentis in Deum Itenerarium, in which he describes the ascent of the soul to God in six steps that correspond to six soul forces.
• Send Cologne Beguines Christine Stommeln because of their permanent demonic experiences back to her parents.

Born

• Richard Og de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, second Earl of Ulster and third Lord of Connacht († 1326)
• About Tino da Casale, Italian Franciscan theologian and ( † after 1328 )

Died

• February 07: Thomas II, younger son of Thomas I, Count of Savoy (c. 1200)
• April 22: Adolf IV, Count of Berg ( * 1220 )
• MAY 29: Christoph I, King of Denmark (* 1219 )

• Matthew Paris, English historian (c. 1200)