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Year 1228 (MCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Abu Zakariya founds the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiyah (today's Tunisia).

    • Asia

  • Sukaphaa, the first Ahom king, establishes his rule in Assam. The Ahom kings reign for close to 600 years.

    • Europe

  • April 25 – Conrad IV of Germany becomes titular King of Jerusalem, with Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor as regent.
  • June 28 – The Sixth Crusade is launched from Brindisi by Emperor Frederick II, after delays due to sickness and an excommunication from Pope Gregory IX.
  • Baldwin II becomes emperor of the Latin Empire in Constantinople, with John of Brienne as regent.
  • The Transylvanian town of Reghin is first mentioned in a charter of Andrew II of Hungary.
  • Spain: King James I of Aragon launches a major offensive against the Muslims in Majorca. The same year, in Murcia, confronted to increasing Christian pressure, the cadi (soon to be called emir), Ibn Hud al-Yamadi, denounces the Almohads and acknowledges the Abbasids as legitimate caliphs, in effect declaring independence. Other notable Christian success: Alfonso IX of León conquers Mérida.

    • Markets

  • The city of Tournai emits its first recorded life annuity, thus confirming a trend of consolidation of public debts started ten years earlier in Reims.
  • First evidence of the use of the knights Templar as cashiers by the king of England to transfer safely important sums to the continent using letters of exchange. This shows that large transfers could take place across Europe even before the emergence of important networks of Italian merchant-bankers.

    • Religion

  • July 16 – Saint Francis of Assisi is canonized by Pope Gregory IX.

    • Births

  • April 25 – Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
  • William II, Count of Holland
  • Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi, Islamic legal scholar

    • Deaths

  • January – Robert of Courtenay, emperor of the Latin Empire
  • April 25 – Queen Isabella II of Jerusalem (b. 1212)
  • June – Reginald de Braose, English rebel baron.
  • July 9 – Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • September 24 – Stefan the First-Crowned, King of Serbia
  • date unknown – Aedh Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht

    • References

    1228 Wikipedia
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