1246

Year 1246 (MCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s
Years:	1243 1244 1245 1246 1247 1248 1249

1246 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1246 MCCXLVI
Ab urbe condita	1999
Armenian calendar	695 ԹՎ ՈՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	5996
Balinese saka calendar	1167–1168
Bengali calendar	653
Berber calendar	2196
English Regnal year	30 Hen. 3 – 31 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1790
Burmese calendar	608
Byzantine calendar	6754–6755
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3942 or 3882     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3943 or 3883
Coptic calendar	962–963
Discordian calendar	2412
Ethiopian calendar	1238–1239
Hebrew calendar	5006–5007
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1302–1303
- Shaka Samvat	1167–1168
- Kali Yuga	4346–4347
Holocene calendar	11246
Igbo calendar	246–247
Iranian calendar	624–625
Islamic calendar	643–644
Japanese calendar	Kangen 4 (寛元４年)
Javanese calendar	1155–1156
Julian calendar	1246 MCCXLVI
Korean calendar	3579
Minguo calendar	666 before ROC 民前666年
Nanakshahi calendar	−222
Thai solar calendar	1788–1789
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1372 or 991 or 219     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1373 or 992 or 220

Events

Americas

• The Mexicans settle Chapultepec, a former Toltec stronghold.

Asia

• Emperor Go-Fukakusa succeeds Emperor Go-Saga, on the throne of Japan.
• Güyük Khan is enthroned as the 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (an event also witnessed by a papal mission under Giovanni da Pian del Carpine), at Karakorum.
  • Güyük dismisses a joint diplomatic mission sent by the Nizari Ismailis, the new Abbasid caliph Al-Musta'sim, and many Muslim rulers.[1]

Europe

• With the death of Duke Frederick the Quarrelsome, the Babenberg Dynasty ends in Austria.
• Spain: After two unsuccessful sieges in 1225 and 1230, the Castillans manage to take the city of Jaén from the Andalucians, at the Siege of Jaen.[2]

Arts

• The Gothic chapel of Sainte-Chapelle is built.
• Robert Grosseteste translates Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from Greek into Latin, which marks the true start of the rediscovery of the philosopher by medieval Europe.[3]

Nature

• The perihelion of the Earth's orbit coincides with the December solstice.

Religion

• Beaulieu Abbey is dedicated.

Births

• September 14 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (d. 1272)
• date unknown
  • Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (d. 1255)
  • Jutta of Denmark, Danish princess and abbess

Deaths

• February 25 – Dafydd ap Llywelyn, prince of Wales
• June – Richard Fitz Roy, illegitimate son of John of England
• June 4 – Isabella of Angoulême, queen of John of England
• June 15 – Duke Frederick II, Duke of Austria (b. 1219)
• September 20 – Mikhail of Chernigov, Prince of Kiev
• September 30 – Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1190)
• November 8 – Berengaria of Castile, queen of Castile and León (b. 1196)
• date unknown
  • Ednyfed Fychan, seneschal of Gwynedd
  • Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki, ancestor of the Bukkuri Sayyids (b. 1145)
  • Fatima, Mongolian senior office holder

References

1. Daftary, Farhad (1992). The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge University Press. pp. 418–420. ISBN 978-0-521-42974-0.
2. Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In Abulafia, David (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–699 [670]. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
3. Munro, John H. (2003). "The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution". The International History Review. 15 (3): 506–562.