Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Summer – Emperor Michael VIII (Palaiologos) sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (some 3,500 men) led by his half-brother, Constantine Palaiologos, to the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The army is transported to Monemvasia on Genoese ships, while a small Byzantine fleet is sent to harass the Latin island holdings in Euboea and the Cyclades. After arriving at Monemvasia, Constantine lays siege to Lacedaemon (or Sparta), while the Byzantine fleet seizes the southern coast of Laconia.
- Battle of Prinitza: Constantine Palaiologos marches the Byzantine army up the rivers Eurotas and Alfeios towards the Achaean capital, Andravida. At a narrow pass at Prinitza (near Ancient Olympia) in Elis, the Byzantines are attacked by Achaean forces (some 300 horsemen) under John of Katavas, who inflict a resounding defeat upon them; many Byzantine soldiers are killed. Constantine himself barely escapes with his life, and flees with the remainder of his army to the safety of Mystras.
- Battle of Settepozzi: A Byzantine-Genoese fleet (some 50 galleys) is routed by the Venetians near Spetses in the Argolic Gulf, who capture four ships and inflict considerable casualties. Later, the Genoese that survive the battle managed to capture Chania on Crete. They receive orders to avoid direct confrontations with the Venetian fleet, but instead are engaged in raiding against the Venetian merchant convoys in the Euripus Strait.
Europe
England
Levant
- April 4 – Egyptian forces led by Sultan Baibars (or Abu al-Futuh) attack Acre, there is severe fighting outside the walls, in which the seneschal, Geoffrey of Sergines, is badly wounded. Baibars is not yet ready to besiege the city and begins a major campaign to eliminate the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, the county of Tripoli and the principality of Antioch.
By topic
Arts and Culture
Education
Markets
- Edward (the Lord Edward), son and heir of King Henry III, seizes £10,000, which had been deposited to the trust of the Knights Templar in London, by foreign merchants and English magnates.
- The Bonsignori firm gains the full market of the transfer of fiscal revenue, from the papal estates to Rome.
Religion
Births
- January 22 – Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian philosopher (d. 1328)
- February 8 – Afonso of Portugal, Portuguese prince (d. 1312)
- March 20 – Yolande of Dreux, queen of Scotland (d. 1330)
- Henry III, German nobleman (House of Gorizia) (d. 1323)
- Ingeborg of Sweden, countess of Holstein-Plön (d. 1292)
- Juliana FitzGerald, Norman-Irish noblewoman (d. 1300)
- Napoleone Orsini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1342)
- Philip of Flanders, Flemish nobleman and knight (d. 1308)
- Roseline de Villeneuve, French nun and saint (d. 1329)
- Theobald II (or Thiebaut), German nobleman (d. 1312)
- Tolberto III, Italian nobleman and condottiero (d. 1317)
- Zhongfeng Mingben, Chinese Buddhist master (d. 1323)
Deaths
- January 7 – Agnes of Merania, duchess of Carinthia (b. 1215)
- January 16 – Shinran Shonin, founder of Shin Buddhism (b. 1173)
- March 19 – Hugh of Saint-Cher, French friar and bishop (b. 1200)
- April 20 – John I, German nobleman (House of Schauenburg)
- November 14 – Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod
- December 16 – Haakon IV (the Old), king of Norway (b. 1204)
- December 24 – Hōjō Tokiyori, Japanese nobleman (b. 1227)
- Al-Ashraf Musa, Ayyubid prince (emir) and ruler (b. 1229)
- Boniface, Savoyan nobleman (House of Savoy) (b. 1245)
- Caesarius of Alagno, Italian priest, bishop and counsellor
- Gilbert I de la Hay, Scottish nobleman, knight and regent
- Guy I de la Roche, duke of Athens and Thebes (b. 1205)
- John XIII Aaron bar Ma'dani, Syrian patriarch of Antioch
- Manuel I (Megas Komnenos), emperor of Trebizond
- Martino della Torre, Italian nobleman and condottiero
- Mindaugas (or Mendog), king of Lithuania (b. 1203)
- Senana ferch Caradog, Welsh noblewoman (b. 1198)
References
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