1240

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.

Births

• Abulafia, Maltese Jewish philosopher (d. 1292)
• Pope Benedict XI (d. 1304)
• Stephen V of Hungary (d. 1272)
• Sigerus of Brabant, French theologian (d. 1284)
• Albert the Degenerate, landgrave of Thuringia (approximate date; d. 1314)

Deaths

• April 11 - Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
• Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher
• Jacques de Vitry, French historian and theologian (b. c. 1180)
• William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (b. 1166)

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)af:1240

am:1240 እ.ኤ.አ. ar:1240 an:1240 ast:1240 az:1240 bn:১২৪০ map-bms:1240 be:1240 be-x-old:1240 bh:१२४० bs:1240 br:1240 bg:1240 ca:1240 cv:1240 cs:1240 co:1240 cy:1240 da:1240 de:1240 et:1240 el:1240 es:1240 eo:1240 eu:1240 fr:1240 fy:1240 gd:1240 gl:1240 ko:1240년 hy:1240 hi:1240 hr:1240. io:1240 bpy:মারি ১২৪০ id:1240 is:1240 it:1240 he:1240 jv:1240 ka:1240 sw:1240 ht:1240 (almanak jilyen) la:1240 lb:1240 lt:XIII amžiaus 4-as dešimtmetis#1240 lmo:1240 hu:1240 mk:1240 mi:1240 mr:इ.स. १२४० ms:1240 nah:1240 nl:1240 new:१२४० ja:1240年 nap:1240 no:1240 nn:1240 nrm:1240 oc:1240 uz:1240 pi:१२४० pl:1240 pt:1240 ksh:Joohr 1240 ro:1240 ru:1240 год sa:१२४० sq:1240 scn:1240 simple:1240 sk:1240 sl:1240 sr:1240 su:1240 fi:1240 sv:1240 tl:1240 tt:1240 th:พ.ศ. 1783 tr:1240 uk:1240 vec:1240 zh-yue:1240年