1269

Year 1269 (MCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s 1280s
Years:	1266 1267 1268 1269 1270 1271 1272

1269 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1269 MCCLXIX
Ab urbe condita	2022
Armenian calendar	718 ԹՎ ՉԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	6019
Balinese saka calendar	1190–1191
Bengali calendar	676
Berber calendar	2219
English Regnal year	53 Hen. 3 – 54 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1813
Burmese calendar	631
Byzantine calendar	6777–6778
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3965 or 3905     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3966 or 3906
Coptic calendar	985–986
Discordian calendar	2435
Ethiopian calendar	1261–1262
Hebrew calendar	5029–5030
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1325–1326
- Shaka Samvat	1190–1191
- Kali Yuga	4369–4370
Holocene calendar	11269
Igbo calendar	269–270
Iranian calendar	647–648
Islamic calendar	667–668
Japanese calendar	Bun'ei 6 (文永６年)
Javanese calendar	1179–1180
Julian calendar	1269 MCCLXIX
Korean calendar	3602
Minguo calendar	643 before ROC 民前643年
Nanakshahi calendar	−199
Thai solar calendar	1811–1812
Tibetan calendar	阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1395 or 1014 or 242     — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1396 or 1015 or 243

Events

Africa

• End of the Almohad Dynasty:
  • The Berber Marinid completes the conquest of Morocco, replacing the Almohad dynasty which it defeated in Marrakesh.
  • The Almohad Dynasty of caliphs (not universally accepted), that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain), is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.

Europe

• June 19 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public, without an identifying yellow badge, to be fined ten livres of silver.
• King Otakar II of Bohemia inherits Carinthia and part of Carniola, making him the most powerful prince within the Holy Roman Empire; the empire lacking an emperor during the ongoing “Great Interregnum”.
• To finance his crusade, Edward I of England obtains the right to levy a twentieth of the value of the Church’s wealth in England. That sum turns out to be insufficient, and Edward has to borrow to reach his target.[1]
• John Comyn begins the construction of Blair Castle, in Scotland.

Religion

• March – Ode de Pougy, Abbess of Notre Dame aux Nonnains, is excommunicated.
• The Latin Patriarch of Antioch is exiled after 171 years of holding the See, being displaced because of the East–West Schism of 1054. It, once again, reverts from possession of the Roman Catholic to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Science

• Pélerin de Maricourt first describes magnetic poles, and remarks on the nonexistence of isolated magnetic poles.

Births

Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar

• June 18 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (d. 1298)
• date unknown
  • Philip of Artois, Lord of Conches, Nonancourt, and Domfront
  • Huang Gongwang, Chinese painter (d. 1354)

Deaths

Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia

• September – Idris II, Almohad Caliph
• October 27 – Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (b. c.1220)
• date unknown
  • Guigues VII of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne (b. 1225)
  • Constance of Aragon, Lady of Villena, Aragonese princess (b. 1239)
  • Oberto Pallavicino, Italian nobleman and military commander (b. 1197)
  • Vilain I of Aulnay, Marshal of Romania and Baron of Arcadia

References

1. Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review. 8 (1).