Years: 1260 1261 1262 - 1263 - 1264 1265 1266

Decades: 1230s 1240s 1250s - 1260s - 1270s 1280s 1290s

Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

1263 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

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Art and literature

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1263 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1263 MCCLXIII
Ab urbe condita	2016
Armenian calendar	712 ԹՎ ՉԺԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-581 – -580
Berber calendar	2213
Buddhist calendar	1807
Burmese calendar	625
Byzantine calendar	6771 – 6772
Chinese calendar	壬戌年十一月二十日 (3899/3959-11-20) — to — 癸亥年十一月三十日 (3900/3960-11-30)
Coptic calendar	979 – 980
Ethiopian calendar	1255 – 1256
Hebrew calendar	5023 – 5024
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1318 – 1319
- Shaka Samvat	1185 – 1186
- Kali Yuga	4364 – 4365
Holocene calendar	11263
Iranian calendar	641 – 642
Islamic calendar	661 – 662
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3596
Thai solar calendar	1806
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Contents 1 Events 1.1 War and politics 1.2 Culture 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

War and politics

• October 2 - Battle of Largs: King Alexander III of Scotland defeats the Viking armada of King Haakon IV of Norway.
• King James I of Aragon conquers Crevillente, Spain from the Moors during the Reconquista.
• Mindaugas, the only Christian king of Lithuania, is assassinated by his cousin Treniota.
• The chieftains of the eastern part of Iceland become the last to pledge fealty to the Norwegian king, bringing a more complete end to the Icelandic Commonwealth and the Icelandic civil war.
• Genoa captures the city of Chania on Crete from the Venetians.
• Hulagu Khan is defeated in an attempted invasion north of the Caucasus.
• Based on Magdeburg Law, Żnin (Poland) is given city rights.

Culture

• Nahmanides, chief rabbi of Catalonia, defends the Talmud in an important disputation against Pablo Christiani before King James I of Aragon.
• The doctrines of theologian Joachim of Fiore are condemned as heresy by the Roman Catholic Church at a synod in Arles.
• Balliol College, Oxford is founded by John I de Balliol.
• The Savoy Palace is constructed in London by Count Peter II of Savoy.

Births

• January 22 - Ibn Taymiya, Syrian philosopher and jurist (d. 1328)
• Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1312)

Deaths

• March 19 - Hugh of St Cher, French cardinal
• September 12 - King Mindaugas of Lithuania
• November 14 - Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• December 15 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
• Hamo de Crevequer, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
• Count Boniface of Savoy
• Hōjō Tokiyori, regent of Japan (b. 1227)