1273
Events St. Thomas Aquinas completes his Summa Theologica. Rudolph of Hapsburg is elected king of Germany. The Latin Empire of Constantinople officially falls with Baldwin II's death. The battle of Xiangyang (in which the first combat use of firearms in history occurs) concludes. The Sambyeolcho Rebellion ends. Premysl Ottokar II captures Bratislava The order of the Whirling Dervishes is founded by the followers of the late Rumi. Georgius Acropolita visits Pope Gregory X The parish church of Stone, Buckinghamshire, is dedicated to St John the Baptist The Spear of Destiny is used in a coronation ceremony. According to myth, Marco Polo visits to Alamut & describes Hashshashin (assassins) Henry III of Champagne is crowned king of Navarre. Robert Kilwardby becomes Archbishop of Canterbury. Sir Joseph Chauncy, Prior of the Knights of St. John in England becomes Lord High Treasurer of England. Alphonso is created sixth Earl of Chester Przemysl II of Poland marries Ludgarda of Mecklenburg, daughter of Henry I the Pilgrim, duke of Mecklenburg John I, Duke of Brabant marries Margaret of Flanders.
BirthsAbulfeda, geographer
Deaths Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (poet and Sufi mystic) on December 17. Baldwin II of Constantinople Hojo Masamura Thomas Berard, Grand Master of the Knights Templar Marguerite, daughter of Thomas I of Savoy Robert of Sutton who chartered Peterborough
Monarchs/Presidents Aragon - James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276) Hojo Yoshimasa succeeds Hojo Masamura as Rensho (連署) of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan.
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