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Map of Eurasia circa 1200 C.E.

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 through 1300 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian/Common Era. In the history of European culture, this period is considered part of the High Middle Ages, and after its conquests in Asia the Mongol Empire stretched from Eastern Asia to Eastern Europe.

Events

The Mongols, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, overran most of Asia, thus creating the second largest empire to ever exist, surpassed only by the British Empire. They achieved this success in large part due to their amazing horse archers.

Europe

• 1204—Fourth Crusade of 1202–1204 captures Zara for Venice and sacks Byzantine Constantinople, creating the Latin Empire.
• 1204—Fall of Normandy from Angevin hands to the French King, Philip Augustus, end of Norman domination of France.
• 1205—The Battle of Adrianople occurred on April 14, 1205 between Bulgarians under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, (July 1172 – 1205), the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.
• 1212—The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in Iberia sees the beginning of a rapid Christian reconquest of the southern half of the Iberian peninsula, mainly from 1230–1248, with the defeat of Moorish forces.
• 1213—France defeats the Spanish Kingdom of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
• 1214—France defeats English and Imperial German forces at the Battle of Bouvines.
• 1215—King John of England signs Magna Carta at Runnymede.
• 1217–1221—Fifth Crusade captures Egyptian Ayyubid port city of Damietta, ultimately Crusaders withdraw.
• 1221—Venice signs a trade treaty with the Mongol Empire.
• 1222—Andrew II of Hungary signs the Golden Bull which affirms the privileges of Hungarian nobility.
• 1223—The Mongol Empire defeats various Russian principalities at the Battle of the Kalka River.
• 1228-1229—Sixth Crusade under the excommunicated Frederick II Hohenstaufen, who returns Jerusalem to the Crusader States.
• 1228-1230- First clash between Gregory IX and Frederick II.
• 1226-1250- Dispute between the so called second Lombard League and Frederick II.
• 1239–1250—Third conflict between Holy Roman Empire–Papacy.
• 1237–1240—Mongol Empire conquers Russia.
• 1241—Mongol Empire defeats Hungary at the Battle of Mohi and defeats Poland at the Battle of Legnica. Hungary and Poland ravaged.
• 1242—Russians defeat the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Lake Peipus.
• 1243–1250—Second Holy Roman Empire–Papacy War.
• 1244—Ayyubids and Khwarezmians defeat the Crusaders and their Arab allies at the Battle of La Forbie.
• 1249—End of the Portuguese Reconquista against the Moors, when King Afonso III of Portugal reconquers the Algarve.
• 1248–1254—Seventh Crusade captures Egyptian Ayyubid port city of Damietta, Crusaders ultimately withdraw. Mamelukes overthrow Ayyubid Dynasty.
• 1261—Byzantines under Michael VIII retake Constantinople from the Crusaders and Venice.
• 1268—Fall of the Crusader State of Antioch to the Mamelukes.

Portrait of the Chinese Zen Buddhist Wuzhun Shifan, painted in 1238, Song Dynasty.

Hommage of Edward I (kneeling), to the Philippe le Bel (seated). As Duke of Aquitaine, Edward was a vassal to the French king.

• 1271—Edward I of England and Charles of Anjou arrive in Acre, starting the Ninth Crusade against Baibars.
• 1282—Aragon acquires Sicily, after the Sicilian Vespers.
• 1284—Peterhouse, Cambridge founded by Hugo de Balsham, the Bishop of Ely.
• 1285—Second Mongol raid against Hungary, led by Nogai Khan.
• 1289—Crusader State of Tripoli falls to the Mamelukes.
• 1291—The Swiss Confederation of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden forms.
• 1291—Mamluk Sultan of Egypt al-Ashraf Khalil captures Acre, thus ending the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (the final Christian landholding remaining from the Crusades).

Significant people

Frescoes from the 13th century Boyana Church

Queen Tamara

• Genghis Khan, founder of Mongol Empire
• Batu Khan, Mongol ruler and the founder of the Golden Horde
• Haakon Haakonsson, king of Norway from 1217 to 1263. After the long civil war Norway would again prosper under his rule and come to dominate Scandinavian politics.
• Kaloyan, Emperor of Bulgaria
• Ivan Asen II, Emperor of Bulgaria
• Edward I of England, English King
• Ottokar II of Bohemia, King of Bohemia
• Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt
• Ibn Taymiyyah, famous Hanbali, Salafi Scholar of Islam
• Dante Alighieri, Italian writer
• William Marshal, knight and statesman.
• Saint Thomas Aquinas, theologian
• Andrea of Grosseto, Italian writer
• Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter
• Cimabue, Florentine painter
• Sundiata Keita semi-historical founder of the Mali Empire
• Alexander of Hales, philosopher and theologian
• Albertus Magnus, German philosopher and theologian
• Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order
• Robert Grosseteste, English statesman, theologian, and scientist
• Roger Bacon, Franciscan, philosopher, and scientist
• Birger jarl, Swedish statesman, earl, and founder of Stockholm
• Bonaventure, Franciscan theologian
• Petrus Peregrinus, scientist
• Louis IX of France, St. Louis, French king and crusader
• Marco Polo, Venetian trader and explorer
• Frederick II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
• Kublai Khan, Khan ruler, founder of Yuan Dynasty in China
• Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• Saadi Persian poet
• Snorri Sturluson, historian and saga-writer
• William Wallace, Scottish national leader
• Béla IV of Hungary rebuilder of Hungary after the devastating Mongol invasion
• Lembitu, Estonian ruler
• Queen Tamara, ruler of Georgia
• Lasha Giorgi, King Giorgi IV of Georgia
• Queen Rusudan, Queen Regnant of Georgia
• Mevlana, great philosopher and poet
• Dnyaneshwar, great young philosopher, saint and poet born in Maharashtra, India

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• List of 13th century inventions
• Early 13th century - Xia Gui paints Twelve Views from a Thatched Hut. Southern Song dynasty. It is now kept at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
• The motet form originates out of the Ars antiqua tradition of Western European music.
• Manuscript culture develops out of this time period in cities in Europe, which denotes a shift from monasteries to cities for books.
• Pecia system of copying books develops in Italian university-towns and was taken up by the University of Paris in the middle of the century.
• Wooden movable type printing invented by the Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen in 1298.
• The earliest known rockets, landmines, and handguns are made by the Chinese for use in warfare.
• The Chinese adopt the windmill from the Islamic world.
• Guan ware vase is made. Southern Song dynasty. It is now kept at Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London.
• 1280s Eyeglasses invented in Italy.
• Late 13th century - "Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace" is made. Kamakura period. It is now kept at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
• Late 13th century - Descent of the Amida Trinity, raigo triptych, is made. Kamakura period. It is now kept at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Decades and years

See also

• Christianity in the 13th century

External links

• The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries by James J. Walsh, 1907

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. In the history of European culture, this period is considered part of the High Middle Ages, and after its conquests in Asia the Mongol Empire stretched from Korea to Eastern Europe.

Events

Map of Eurasia circa 1200 C.E.

The Mongols, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, overran most of Asia, thus creating the largest empire to ever exist. They achieved this success in large part due to their amazing horse archers.

• 1199 — Pope Innocent III writes to Kaloyan, inviting him to unite the Bulgarian Church with the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1204 — Fourth Crusade sacks Byzantine Constantinople and creates the Latin Empire.
• 1205 — Battle of Adrianople: Tsar Kaloyan with his army crushed the (otherwise unbeaten) Fourth Crusade's knights and the soldiers of Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople who was attacking Bulgarian lands with the goal to conquer them.
• 1206 — Mongols united under Temüjin, who is proclaimed "one Khan".
• 1212 — The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in Iberia sees the beginning of a rapid Christian reconquest of the southern half of the Iberian peninsula, with the defeat of Moorish forces.
• 1215 — King John of England forced to sign Magna Carta at Runnymede.
• 1222 — Andrew II of Hungary signs the Golden Bull which afferms the privileges of Hungarian nobility.
• 1227 — Genghis Khan dies during the prolonged siege of the Western Xia Dynasty capital (located in northwestern China), while the Tangut Western Xia Dynasty falls soon after.
• 1234 — the Jin Dynasty of northeastern China is conquered by the forces of the Mongol ruler Ögedei Khan.
• 1238 — The Thai Kingdom of Sukhothai is established, with Theravada Buddhism as the state religion. Later in the century it vassalises significant parts of modern Thailand, Laos, Burma, and Malaysia.
• 1249 — End of the Portuguese Reconquista against the Moors, when King Afonso III of Portugal reconquers the Algarve.
• 1250-1275 — the Arab or Persian born Muslim Kuwabara (Chinese: Pu Shou-geng) was appointed by the Song Dynasty Chinese government as the Commissioner of Merchant Shipping for Quanzhou. He published a detailed monograph of the shipping industry and maritime economy of China's seaports during his tenure there.
• 1258 — Baghdad (Iraq), seat of the Muslim Abbasid dynasty, is besieged and burnt to the ground by the forces of the Mongol commander Hulagu Khan. The last Abbasid ruler Al-Musta'sim is executed by means of trampling horses.
• 1259 — the Mongol ruler Möngke Khan is killed in battle by a Chinese cannon blast at Fishing Town, Chongqing, located in southwestern China.
• 1260 — the Mongols are defeated by the Egyptian Mamluks in the Battle of Ain Jalut.
• 1270 — Restoration of Solomonic dynasty in Ethiopia, deposing the Zagwe dynasty.

Portrait of the Chinese Zen Buddhist Wuzhun Shifan, painted in 1238 AD, Song Dynasty.

• 1279, the Battle of Yamen marks the fall of the Chinese Song Dynasty and the rise of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty led by Khublai Khan.
• 1282 — Aragon acquires Sicily, after the Sicilian Vespers.
• 1284 — Peterhouse founded by Hugo de Balsham, the Bishop of Ely.
• 1291 — The Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden.
• Bantu-speaking peoples arrive in modern Angola, partially displacing the original Khoisan inhabitants.
• Battle of Bouvines
• Persian historian Rashid al-Din records eleven Buddhist texts circulating in Arabic translation.
• James I of Aragon takes control of Balearic Islands and Valencia.
• Marco Polo and his family reach China.
• Norway cedes the Isle of Man to Scotland, following the signing of the Treaty of Perth.
• Ögedei Khan establishes a Mongolian dynasty in China. Some Mongol leaders convert from Tantric Buddhism to Islam.
• Teutonic Knights begin activity in Eastern Europe.
• Theravada overtakes Mahayana as the dominant form of Buddhism in Cambodia.
• A period of civil unrest, Sturlungaöld, leads to Iceland becoming part of the Kingdom of Norway.
• End of Hohenstaufen dynasty at the Battle of Tagliacozzo. The Kingdom of Sicily goes to French Anjou house.
• Fall of the Ghana Empire.
• Fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. Sicily and Naples are acquired by the French count Charles I of Naples.
• Fifth through eighth crusades of western European kingdoms against Islam.
• Finland gets its first city, Turku.
• First European universities founded.
• Most of Asia and Eastern Europe is conquered and incorporated into the Mongol Empire.
• The Medieval Warm Period ends.
• The Utiguri Bulgar state on the Volga vanishes from history.
• The Chinese become familiar with the story of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

Significant people

William Wallace of Scotland.

• Albertus Magnus, German philosopher and theologian
• Alexander of Hales, philosopher and theologian
• Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• Baibars, Mamluk sultan
• Béla IV of Hungary rebuilder of Hungary after the devastating Mongol invasion
• Birger jarl, Swedish statesman, earl, and founder of Stockholm
• Bonaventure, Franciscan theologian
• Ch'in Chiu-Shao, Chinese mathematician
• Dante Alighieri, Italian writer
• Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order
• Frederick II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• Genghis Khan, founder of Mongol Empire
• Giotto di Bondone Italian painter
• Ibn Taymiyyah, famous Hanbali, Salafi Scholar of Islam
• Ivan Asen II, Emperor of Bulgaria
• Kaloyan, Emperor of Bulgaria
• Kitbuqa, Christian Mongol commander
• Kublai Khan, Khan ruler, founder of Yuan Dynasty in China
• Lembitu, Estonian ruler
• Louis IX of France, St. Louis, French king and crusader
• Emperor Ningzong of Song, ruler of China
• Petrus Peregrinus, scientist
• Qutuz, Mamluk sultan
• Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
• Robert Grosseteste, English statesman, theologian, and scientist
• Roger Bacon, Franciscan, philosopher, and scientist
• Saadi Persian poet
• Snorri Sturluson, historian and saga-writer
• Sundiata Keita semi-historical founder of the Mali Empire
• Thomas Aquinas, theologian
• Wen Tianxiang, Chinese Prime Minister
• William Wallace, Scottish national leader
• William Marshal, knight and statesman
• Yang Hui, Chinese mathematician
• Zhao Mengfu, Chinese painter

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• List of 13th century inventions
• The motet form originates out of the Ars antiqua tradition of Western European music.
• Manuscript culture develops out of this time period in cities in Europe, which denotes a shift from monasteries to cities for books.
• Pecia system of copying books develops in Italian university-towns and was taken up by the University of Paris in the middle of the century.
• Wooden movable type printing invented by the Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen in 1298.
• The earliest known rockets, landmines, and handguns are made by the Chinese for use in warfare.
• The Chinese adopt the windmill from the Islamic world.

Decades and years

External links

• The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries by James J. Walsh, 1907