Years: 1237 1238 1239 – 1240 – 1241 1242 1243

Decades: 1210s 1220s 1230s – 1240s – 1250s 1260s 1270s

Centuries: 12th century – 13th century – 14th century

1240 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1240 in poetry v • d • e

1240 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1240 MCCXL
Ab urbe condita	1993
Armenian calendar	689 ԹՎ ՈՁԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-604 – -603
Berber calendar	2190
Buddhist calendar	1784
Burmese calendar	602
Byzantine calendar	6748 – 6749
Chinese calendar	己亥年十二月初六日 (3876/3936-12-6) — to — 庚子年十二月十七日 (3877/3937-12-17)
Coptic calendar	956 – 957
Ethiopian calendar	1232 – 1233
Hebrew calendar	5000 – 5001
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1295 – 1296
- Shaka Samvat	1162 – 1163
- Kali Yuga	4341 – 4342
Holocene calendar	11240
Iranian calendar	618 – 619
Islamic calendar	637 – 638
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3573
Thai solar calendar	1783
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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Monarchs

[edit] Events

• Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
• Battle of Kirina: Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeats Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté, beginning the Mali Empire.
• July 15 – Battle of the Neva: Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes, saving Russia from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North.
• The civil war era in Norway ends.
• Saint Maurice starts to be portrayed as a Moor.
• Tuan Mash`ika, an Arab, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu.
• The Flemish village Kaprijke is recognized as a city.

[edit] Births

• Abulafia, Maltese Jewish philosopher (d. 1292)
• Pope Benedict XI (d. 1304)
• Sigerus of Brabant, French theologian (d. 1284)
• Albert the Degenerate, landgrave of Thuringia (approximate date; d. 1314)

[edit] Deaths

• April 11 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
• November 10 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (b. 1165)
• William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (b. 1166)

[edit] 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)