1249

This article is about the year 1249. For the number, see 1249 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1210s  1220s  1230s  – 1240s –  1250s  1260s  1270s
Years:	1246 1247 1248 – 1249 – 1250 1251 1252

1249 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1249 in poetry

1249 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1249 MCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2002
Armenian calendar	698 ԹՎ ՈՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	5999
Bengali calendar	656
Berber calendar	2199
English Regnal year	33 Hen. 3 – 34 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1793
Burmese calendar	611
Byzantine calendar	6757–6758
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3945 or 3885     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3946 or 3886
Coptic calendar	965–966
Discordian calendar	2415
Ethiopian calendar	1241–1242
Hebrew calendar	5009–5010
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1305–1306
- Shaka Samvat	1171–1172
- Kali Yuga	4350–4351
Holocene calendar	11249
Igbo calendar	249–250
Iranian calendar	627–628
Islamic calendar	646–647
Japanese calendar	Hōji 3 / Kenchō 1 (建長元年)
Julian calendar	1249 MCCXLIX
Korean calendar	3582
Minguo calendar	663 before ROC 民前663年
Thai solar calendar	1791–1792

Year 1249 (MCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• King Louis IX of France captures Damietta in Egypt, the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade.

Asia

• Pho Khun Si Indrathit becomes the first king of the Sukhothai kingdom, marking the founding of the modern Thai nation.
• The Hikitsuke, a judicial organ of the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates of Japan, is established.
• The Japanese Hōji era ends, and the Kenchō era begins.

Europe

• February 16 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by King Louis IX of France as an ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
• May 26 – The Battle of Fossalta is fought between the Holy Roman Empire and the Lombard League. The Italians capture the German commander.
• June 13 – coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
• August 15 – The First Battle of Athenry is fought in Galway, Ireland.
• The city of Stralsund (in present-day Germany) is burned to the ground by forces from the rival city of Lübeck.
• Swedish statesman Birger Jarl subjugates the province of Tavastia in Finland, securing Swedish power in Finland.
• Alphonse of Toulouse orders the expulsion of Jews from Poitou, France.
• The Hungarian capital is moved from Esztergom to Buda.

Mediterranean

• The Moors lose possession of Alicante in Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain).
• King Afonso III of Portugal recaptures Faro and Silves in the Algarve from the Moors, thus ending the Portuguese Reconquista.
• The city of Mystras, Greece is fortified and a palace is constructed there by William II Villehardouin.

By topic

Education

• Spring – University College, the first College at Oxford, is founded with money from the estate of William of Durham.

Microhistory

• Jean Mouflet makes an agreement with the abbot of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif in the Senonais region in France: in return for an annual payment, the monastery will recognize Jean as a "citizen of Sens". He is a leather merchant, has a leather shop that he leases for the rent of 50 shillings a year. The agreement is witnessed by Jean's wife, Douce, daughter of a wealthy and prominent citizen of Sens, Felis Charpentier.

Science

• Roger Bacon publishes a major scientific work, including writings of convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness and the first publication of the formula for gunpowder in the western world.

Births

• July 9 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305)
• Eric V of Denmark (d. 1286)
• Robert III of Flanders
• Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (d. 1268)
• Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford (d. 1297)
• Pope John XXII (d. 1334)
• Menachem Meiri, rabbi
• Amadeus V of Savoy (d. 1323)

Deaths

• July 6 – King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
• July 19 – Jacopo Tiepolo, Doge of Venice
• August 25 – Everett of Britannia (b. 1224)
• September 27 – Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
• November 22 – As-Salih Ayyub, ruler of Egypt
• date unknown
  • Abu Zakariya, ruler of the Maghreb (b. 1203)
  • Wuzhun Shifan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1178)
  • Song Ci, Chinese physician and judge (b. 1186)