EventsEurope
April 30 - King
Louis IX of France is released by his
Egyptian captors, after paying a ransom of
one million dinars and turning over the city of
Damietta.
October 12 - A great storm shifts the mouth of the
River Rother 12 miles (20 km) to the west; a battering series of strong storms significantly alter other coastal geography as well (see
Romney Marsh).
December 13 -
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, dies, beginning a 23-year-long
interregnum known as the Great Interregnum. Frederick II is the last Holy Roman Emperor of the
Hohenstaufen dynasty; after the interregnum, the empire passes to the
Habsburgs.The
Lombard League dissolves upon the death of its member states' nemesis, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.King
Afonso III of Portugal captures the
Algarve from the Moors, thus completing the expulsion of the Moors from
Portugal.
Valdemar I of Sweden, first Swedish king of the
Folkung house, becomes King of Sweden.
Albertus Magnus isolates the element arsenic. He also first uses the word
oriole to describe a type of bird (most likely the
golden oriole of
Great Britain).The
University of Valladolid is founded in
Spain.The
Rialto Bridge in
Venice, Italy is converted from a pontoon bridge to a permanent, raised wooden structure.
Vincent of Beauvais completes his proto-encyclopedic work, The Greater Mirror.The
Parlement law courts of
ancien régime France are established.A plague breaks out in the city
Naples (in present-day Italy), called the
Naple's Plague.
Villard de Honnecourt draws the first known image of a
sawmill.
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