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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:

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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.

    • 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 16 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (b. 1165)
  • William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (b. 1166)

    • References

    1240 Wikipedia
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