1265

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::callout[type=note] 1265 ::

[[File:ShepherdByzempire1265.jpg|thumb|The restored [[Byzantine Empire]] and surrounding lands in 1265.]]Year 1265 (MCCLXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• January 20 – In Westminster, the first elected English parliament (called Montfort's Parliament) conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, later to be known as the Houses of Parliament.
• March – End of the Hungarian Civil War (1264–1265) – Battle of Isaszeg: Younger King Stephen decisively defeats his father's army.
• May 28 – Future King Edward I of England escapes the captivity of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.
• June 18 – A draft Byzantine–Venetian treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, but is not ratified by Doge Reniero Zeno
• August 4 – Second Barons' War in England: The Battle of Evesham is fought in Worcestershire, with the army of Edward defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, resulting in the death of Montfort and many of his allies. This is sometimes considered the death of chivalry in England.
• The Isle of Man comes under Scottish rule.

North Africa and Asia

• The Mamluk Sultanate Bahri dynasty of Egypt captures several cities and towns from Crusader states in the Middle East, including the cities of Haifa, Arsuf, and Caesarea Maritima; these events eventually precipitate the Eighth Crusade in 1267.
• Kublai Khan sends a delegation to Japan, which loots islands along the way.
• Fire destroys parts of Old Cairo.
• India, Delhi: Ghiyas-Ud-Din-Balban comes to the throne and introduces Sijdah.
• Mongol armies, led by Nogai Khan, raid Thrace.
• In the first major battle in five years (since the Song dynasty Chinese pushed the forces of Kublai Khan back across the Yangzi River, after Möngke Khan's failed invasion in 1259), Kublai Khan engages the Chinese in Sichuan province. Kublai gains a preliminary victory, and war booty of 146 captured Song dynasty naval ships.

By topic

Culture

• The Book of Aneirin, a Welsh manuscript of poetry, is penned.
• The brewing of Budweiser Budvar beer begins in Bohemia; Budweiser Budvar has been produced continuously there to this day.
• Correspondence from Pope Clement IV contains the first known mention of the ring of the Fisherman, an item of papal regalia then used to seal personal correspondence from the pope, and later for papal bulls.
• February 5 – Pope Clement IV succeeds Pope Urban IV, as the 183rd pope.

Births

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• May 10 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
• December 17 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
• King Alfonso III of Aragon
• approximate date – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
• approximate date – Maria de Molina, regent of Castile (d. 1321)
• approximate date – Beatrice Portinari, Dante Alighieri's beloved and guide through Heaven in The Divine Comedy (d. 1290)

Deaths

• January 20 – John Maunsell, Lord Chancellor of England
• February 8 – Hulagu Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1217)
• May 16 – Simon Stock, English prior, canonized (b. c. 1165)
• June 26 – Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia (b. 1203 or 1204)
• August 4 (Killed in the Battle Of Evesham)
  • Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)
  • Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
  • Peter de Montfort
  • Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
• November 24 – Magnús Óláfsson, King of Mann and the Isles
• December 3 – Odofredus, Italian jurist
• Al-Abharī, Persian philosopher and mathematician (b. 1200)

References

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