1250

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Years: 1247 1248 1249 - 1250 - 1251 1252 1253
Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s - 1250s - 1260s 1270s 1280s
Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Eras and population estimates

[edit] Events

[edit] Europe

Frederick II (left) died in 1250.

December 13 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, dies. He is the last Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. Because of his death, the Lombard League comes to an end. A twenty-three year period between his reign and its takeover by the Habsburgs, known as the "Great Interregnum", takes place.
King Afonso III of Portugal captures the Algarve from the Moors, thus completing the expulsion of the Moors from Portugal.
Valdemar, first King of the Folkung house, becomes King of Sweden.
Albertus Magnus isolates the element arsenic. He also first uses the word oriole to describe a type of bird (most likely the golden oriole of Great Britain).
University of Valladolid is founded in Spain.
The Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy is converted from a pontoon bridge to a permanent, raised wooden structure.
Vincent of Beauvais completes his proto-encyclopedic work, The Greater Mirror.
The Parlement law courts of ancien régime France are established.
A plague breaks out in the city Naples (In what is now Italy), called the Naple's Plague

[edit] Asia

A kuriltai is called by Batu Khan in Siberia as part of maneuverings to eventually elect Möngke Khan as khan of the Mongol empire in 1251.

[edit] Africa

July 3 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
The Bahri dynasty of Mamluks seize power in Egypt.
The Walayta state is founded in present-day Ethiopia (see Rulers of Walayta)

[edit] Births

Pietro d'Abano, Italian physician, philosopher and astrologer (died 1316)
Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (died 1300)
Dmitry of Pereslavl, Grand-duke of Vladimir-Suzdal (d. 1294)
Pierre Dubois, French publicist (approximate date; died c. 1312)
Moses de Leon, compiler of the Zohar (approximate date; died 1305)
Giovanni Pisano, Italian sculptor (approximate date; died 1314)

[edit] Deaths

February 2 - King Eric XI of Sweden
February 8 - Robert I of Artois, French crusader (killed in battle) (born 1216)
February 8 - William II Longespee, English crusader
June 18 - Teresa of Portugal
August 9 - King Eric IV of Denmark (born 1216)
October 4 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
December 13 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1194)
Leonardo of Pisa, Italian mathematician
Matej Ninoslav, Croatian ban

[edit] Eras and population estimates

The population of the world in 1250 is estimated at between 400 and 416 million individuals.

Being a round number, the year 1250 is used to demarcate the beginning or ending of various eras or epochs. These include:

Judaism's acknowledged center of Jewish thought and learning:
- End of the Geonim era in Babylonia (from 650)
- Beginning of the Rishonim era (until 1550)
Medieval music - end of the Notre Dame school of polyphony