1240
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 12th century · 13th century · 14th century |
| Decades: | 1210s · 1220s · 1230s · 1240s · 1250s · 1260s · 1270s |
| Years: | 1237 · 1238 · 1239 · 1240 · 1241 · 1242 · 1243 |
| 1240 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1240 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1240 MCCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 1993 |
| Armenian calendar | 689 ԹՎ ՈՁԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5990 |
| Bengali calendar | 647 |
| Berber calendar | 2190 |
| English Regnal year | 24 Hen. 3 – 25 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1784 |
| Burmese calendar | 602 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6748–6749 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3936 or 3876 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3937 or 3877 |
| Coptic calendar | 956–957 |
| Discordian calendar | 2406 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1232–1233 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5000–5001 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1296–1297 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1161–1162 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4340–4341 |
| Holocene calendar | 11240 |
| Igbo calendar | 240–241 |
| Iranian calendar | 618–619 |
| Islamic calendar | 637–638 |
| Japanese calendar | En'ō 2 / Ninji 1 (仁治元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1149–1150 |
| Julian calendar | 1240 MCCXL |
| Korean calendar | 3573 |
| Minguo calendar | 672 before ROC 民前672年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −228 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1782–1783 |
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Year 1240 (MCCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events that occurred this year are as follows:
Events
By area
Asia
- Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
- Tuan Mash'ika, an Arab, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu.
Europe
- July 15 – Battle of the Neva: Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes, saving the Novgorod Republic from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North.
- The civil war era in Norway ends.
- The Flemish village Kaprijke is recognized as a city.
- Sancho II of Portugal conquers the cities of Ayamonte and Cacella over the Muslims as part of the Reconquista.[1]
By topic
Religion
- June 12 – The Disputation of Paris begins at the court of Louis IX of France where four rabbis defend the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's accusations of blasphemy.
- Saint Maurice starts to be portrayed as a Moor.
Births
- Abulafia, Maltese Jewish philosopher (d. 1292)
- Pope Benedict XI (d. 1304)
- Sigerus of Brabant, French theologian (d. 1284)
- Albert the Degenerate, landgrave of Thuringia (approximate date; d. 1314)
- Peter III of Aragon, King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and King of Valencia, very important monarch. (dead in 1285)
Deaths
- April 11 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
- November 10 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (b. 1165)
- William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (b. 1166)
References
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