Events

• January 14 – Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.

• May 6 – Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler of St. Albans Abbey dies. His chronicle is continued by Matthew Paris.

• September 22 – Battle of Saule: The Lithuanians and Semigallians beat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.

• Volga Bulgaria is conquered by Mongol khan Batu.

• Córdoba is retaken for Christianity as part of the Reconquista, and becomes a centre of activity against the remaining Islamic population.

• Razia al-Din accedes to the Sultanate of Delhi.

• Only 4 of 58 districts in Sichuan, China, are captured from the Southern Song by the Mongols under Ögedei. The population of Chengdu, roughly one million inhabitants, is summarily slaughtered after the Mongols take the city with little effort.

• A tournament at Tickhill in England turns into a battle between northerners and southerners, but peace is restored by the papal legate.

Births

• June 6 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)

Deaths

• May 6 – Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler

• John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut (b. c. 1179)

Monarchs

• Aragon – James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276)

• Castile – Ferdinand III, the Saint King of Castile and Leon (reigned from 1217 to 1252)