1240

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1240 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1240
MCCXL
Ab urbe condita 1993
Armenian calendar 689
ԹՎ ՈՁԹ
Assyrian calendar 5990
Balinese saka calendar 1161–1162
Bengali calendar 647
Berber calendar 2190
English Regnal year 24  Hen. 3   25  Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar 1784
Burmese calendar 602
Byzantine calendar 6748–6749
Chinese calendar 己亥年 (Earth  Pig)
3937 or 3730
     to 
庚子年 (Metal  Rat)
3938 or 3731
Coptic calendar 956–957
Discordian calendar 2406
Ethiopian calendar 1232–1233
Hebrew calendar 5000–5001
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1296–1297
 - Shaka Samvat 1161–1162
 - Kali Yuga 4340–4341
Holocene calendar 11240
Igbo calendar 240–241
Iranian calendar 618–619
Islamic calendar 637–638
Japanese calendar En'ō 2 / Ninji 1
(仁治元年)
Javanese calendar 1149–1150
Julian calendar 1240
MCCXL
Korean calendar 3573
Minguo calendar 672 before ROC
民前672年
Nanakshahi calendar −228
Thai solar calendar 1782–1783
Tibetan calendar 阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
1366 or 985 or 213
     to 
阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
1367 or 986 or 214
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Depiction of the Battle of Neva (1240)

Year 1240 ( MCCXL ) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Levant

  • October 10 Richard of Cornwall, brother of King Henry III, arrives at Acre for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. His pilgrimage has the approval of Emperor Frederick II, who is married to his younger sister, Isabella of England, and gives him the task to make arrangements with the Military Orders. On his arrival, Richard travels to Ascalon, where he is met by ambassadors from As-Salih Ayyub. As a negotiator, he is successful in the release of prisoners captured at Gaza (see 1239), and he also assists with the building of the citadel in Ascalon. [5]

Mongol Empire

  • Winter The Mongols under Batu Khan cross the frozen Dnieper River and lay siege to the city of Kiev. On December 6, the walls are rendered rubble by Chinese catapults and the Mongols pour into the city. Brutal hand-to-hand street fighting occurs, the Kievans are eventually forced to fall back to the central parts of the city. Many people take refuge in the Church of the Blessed Virgin. As scores of terrified Kievans climb onto the Church's upper balcony to shield themselves from Mongol arrows, their collective weight strain its infrastructure, causing the roof to collapse and crush countless citizens under its weight. Of a total population of 50,000, all but 2,000 are massacred. [6]

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References

  1. David Nicolle (2005). Osprey: Lake Peipus 1242 – Battle on the Ice, pp. 51–53. ISBN   1-85532-553-5.
  2. David Nicolle (2005). Osprey: Lake Peipus 1242 – Battle on the Ice, p. 53. ISBN   1-85532-553-5.
  3. Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN   2-7068-1398-9.
  4. Humphreys, R. Stephen (1977). From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193–1260, p. 268. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN   0-87395-263-4.
  5. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, pp. 182–183. ISBN   978-0-241-29877-0.
  6. Perfecky, George (1973). The Hypatian Codex, pp. 43–49. Munich, Germany: Wilhelm Fink Publishing House.