Events

• The Carmelite Order is approved by Pope Honorius III.

• Frederick II calls the Imperial Diet of Cremona.

• November 8 – Louis IX of France starts to rule.

Births

• June 21 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)

• Abul-Faraj, Syriac scholar (d. 1286)

• Bar-Hebraeus, Syriac historian and bishop (d. 1286)

• Hethum I of Armenia, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

Deaths

• March 7 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader

• September 16 – Pandulph, Roman ecclesiastical politician

• October 3 – Francis of Assisi, Italian saint (b. 1181)

• November 8 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)

• November 14 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)

• December 11 – Robert de Ros, English baron (b. 1177)