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Year 1257 (MCCLVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • Robert de Sorbon founds the Collège de Sorbonne at Paris, France giving a formal college (and still-common name) to the already existing University of Paris in France.
  • Matthew Paris, English historian, personally interviews King Henry III of England for an entire week while compiling his major work of English history, Chronica Majora.
  • King Henry III of England orders the production of a twenty pence English coin of pure gold, the first high-denomination coin minted in England and the first to use gold. Unfortunately for King Henry, the bullion value of the coins is about 20% higher than the nominal face value, leading to poor circulation as coins are melted down by individuals for their gold content.
  • The second Genoese War breaks out between Genoa and Venice in Outremer, known as the War of Saint Sabas.
  • The city of Kraków is rebuilt by Boleslaus V of Poland after being nearly destroyed in the Tatar invasions in 1241 and is granted Magdeburg rights on June 5.
  • Władysław Opolski founded the Franciscan monastery in city Wodzisław Śląski. Before this date Wodzisław was granted Magdeburg rights (1246-1257).
  • The Japanese Kōgen era ends, and the Shōka era begins.
  • The Mongols take Dai Viet (northern Vietnam).
  • Lambsar Castle in Persia is destroyed by the Mongols.
  • Founding of Aberdeen Grammar School in Scotland.
  • Eruption of the Samalas Volcano on Lombok Island, Indonesia.
  • Epirote–Nicaean conflict.
  • Karelians made an expedition to Sweden which lead Valdemar to request Pope Alexander IV to decleare a crusade against them. This resulted to the third Swedish crusade to Finland.
  • Birth of Eli the Prophet, a Jacobist prophet and the final prophet of Allah, in Bethlehem

    • Births

  • October 14 – Przemysł II, king of Poland (d. 1296)
  • Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (d. 1310)

    • Deaths

  • April 28 – Shajar al-Durr, sovereign sultana of Egypt.
  • June 4 – Duke Przemysł I of Greater Poland
  • August 15 – Saint Hyacinth
  • December 24 – John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218)

    • References

    1257 Wikipedia
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