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Year 1245 (MCCXLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • April 16 – Pope Innocent IV sends Giovanni da Pian del Carpine to the Mongol court, suggesting (amongst other things) that the Mongols convert to Christianity and join the Crusades.
  • June 28 – Opening of the First Council of Lyon, in the course of which Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated and deposed, and the Seventh Crusade is proclaimed.
  • August 1 – The second of two papal bulls refers to the marriage of King Sancho II of Portugal to Mécia Lopes de Haro and decrees the deposition of the king.
  • date unknown
  • Witness of the toll taken by war and fiscal pressure in the kingdom of Castile, the region of Segovia is described this year as depopulated and sterile.
  • The rebuilding of Westminster Abbey is started.

    • Births

  • January 16 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
  • April 3 – King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
  • date unknown – Boniface of Savoy

    • Deaths

  • August 19 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
  • August 21 – Alexander of Hales, English theologian

    • References

    1245 Wikipedia
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