13th century

The 13th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1201 through December 31, 1300 in accordance with the Julian calendar. The term is often used to refer to the 1200s, the century between 1200 and 1299.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Timelines:	12th century 13th century 14th century
State leaders:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1200s 1210s 1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s 1280s 1290s
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

Mongol Empire in 1227 at Genghis Khan's death

Double silver dirham of Ghazan Khan made after the intervention of Imam Ibn Taymiyyah.[1]
Obv: Legend in Arabic: لاإله إلا الله محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم/ ضرب تبريز/ في سنة سبع ...ر Lā ilāha illa llāha Muḥammadun rasūlu llāhi ṣalla llāhu ʽalayhi wa-sallam / ḍuriba Tabrīz / fī sanati sabʽin ...: "There is no God but Allah, Muhammad is His Prophet, Peace be upon him / Minted in Tabriz in the year ...7"
Rev: Legend in Mongolian script (except for "Ghazan Mahmud" in Arabic): Tengri-yin Küchündür. Ghazan Mahmud. Ghasanu Deledkegülügsen: "By the strength of the Heaven / Ghazan Mahmud / Coin struck for Ghazan".
Tabriz mint. 4.0 gr (0.26 g). Silver.

The opening page of one of Ibn al-Nafis' medical works. This is probably a copy made in India during the 17th or 18th century.

The Mongol empire was founded by Genghis Khan, which stretched from Eastern Asia to Eastern Europe. The conquests of Hulagu Khan and other Mongol invasions changed the course of the Muslim world, most notably the Siege of Baghdad (1258), the destruction of the House of Wisdom and the weakening of the Mamluks and Rums which, according to historians, caused the decline of the Islamic Golden Age. Other Muslim powers such as the Mali Empire and Delhi Sultanate conquered large parts of West Africa and the Indian subcontinent, while Buddhism witnessed a decline. In the history of European culture, this period is considered part of the High Middle Ages In North America, according to some population estimates, the population of Cahokia grew to being equal to or larger than the population of 13th-century London.[2] In Peru, the Kingdom of Cuzco begins. The Kanem Empire in what is now Chad reaches its apex. The Solomonic dynasty in Ethiopia and the Zimbabwe Kingdom are founded. In the history of Maya civilizations, the 13th century marks the beginning of the Late Postclassic period. In the periodization of Precolumbian Peru, the 13th century is part of the Late Intermediate Period.

Events

A page of the Italian Fibonacci's Liber Abaci from the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze showing the Fibonacci sequence with the position in the sequence labeled in Roman numerals and the value in Arabic-Hindu numerals.

1200s

• 1200 – Construction begins on the Grand Village of the Natchez near Natchez, Mississippi. This ceremonial center for the Natchez people is occupied and built upon until the early 17th century.[3]
• 1202 – Introduction of Liber Abaci by Fibonacci.
• 1202 – Battle of Basian occurs on July 27, between Kingdom of Georgia and Seljuks.
• 1202 – Battle of Mirebeau occurs on August 1, between Arthur I of Brittany and John of England.
• 1204 – Islamization of Bengal by Bakhtiyar Khalji and oppression of Buddhism in East India
• 1204 – Fourth Crusade of 1202–1204 captures Zadar for Venice and sacks Byzantine Constantinople, creating the Latin Empire.
• 1204 – Fall of Normandy from Angevin hands to the French King, Philip Augustus, end of Norman domination of France.
• 1205 – The Battle of Adrianople occurred on April 14 between Bulgarians under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, (July 1172 – 1205), the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.
• 1206 – Genghis Khan is declared Great Khan of the Mongols.

1210s

• 1212 – The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in Iberia marks the beginning of a rapid Christian reconquest of the southern half of the Iberian peninsula, mainly from 1230–1248, with the defeat of Moorish forces.
• 1213 – The Kingdom of France defeats the Crown of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
• 1214 – France defeats English and Imperial German forces at the Battle of Bouvines.
• 1215 – King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede.
• 1216 – Battle of Lipitsa between Russian principalities
• 1217–1221 – Fifth Crusade captures Egyptian Ayyubid port city of Damietta; ultimately the Crusaders withdraw.

1220s

• C. 1220 – The Kingdom of Mapungubwe dissolves
• 1220 – The Kingdom of Zimbabwe begins
• 1221 – Venice signs a trade treaty with the Mongol Empire.
• 1222 – Andrew II of Hungary signs the Golden Bull which affirms the privileges of Hungarian nobility.
• 1223 – The Signoria, of the Republic of Venice is formed and consists of the Doge, the Minor Council, and the three leaders of the Quarantia.
• 1223 – The Mongol Empire defeats various Russian principalities at the Battle of the Kalka River.
• 1223 – Volga Bulgaria defeats the army of the Mongol Empire at the Battle of Samara Bend
• 1227 – Estonians are finally subjugated to German crusader rule during the Livonian Crusade.
• 1228–1229 – Sixth Crusade under the excommunicated Frederick II Hohenstaufen, who returns Jerusalem to the Crusader States.
• 1228–1230 – First clash between Gregory IX and Frederick II.
• 1226–1250 – Dispute between the so-called second Lombard League and Frederick II.

1230s

• 1232 – The Mongols besiege Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, capturing it in the following year.
• 1233 – Battle of Ganter, Ken Arok defeated Kertajaya, the last king of Kediri, thus established Singhasari kingdom[4] Ken Arok ended the reign of Isyana Dynasty and started his own Rajasa dynasty.
• 1235 – The Mandinka tribes unite to form the Mali Empire which leads to the downfall of Takrur in the 1280s.
• 1239–1250 – Third conflict between the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy.
• 1237–1240 – Mongol Empire conquers Kievan Rus.
• 1238 – Sukhothai becomes the first capital of Sukhothai Kingdom.

1240s

• 1240 – Russians defeat the Swedish army at the Battle of the Neva
• 1241 – Mongol Empire defeats Hungary at the Battle of Mohi and defeats Poland at the Battle of Legnica. Hungary and Poland ravaged.
• 1242 – Russians defeat the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Lake Peipus.
• 1243–1250 – Second Holy Roman Empire–Papacy War.
• 1244 – Ayyubids and Khwarezmians defeat the Crusaders and their Arab allies at the Battle of La Forbie.
• 1249 – End of the Portuguese Reconquista against the Moors, when King Afonso III of Portugal reconquers the Algarve.
• 1248–1254 – Seventh Crusade captures Egyptian Ayyubid port city of Damietta, Crusaders ultimately withdraw. Mamelukes overthrow Ayyubid Dynasty.

1250s

Alai Gate and Qutub Minar were built during the Mamluk and Khalji dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate.[5]

• By 1250, Pensacola culture, through trade, begins influencing Coastal Coles Creek culture.[6]
• 1250 – The Mamluk dynasty is founded in Egypt
• 1257 – Baab Mashur Malamo established the Sultanate of Ternate in Maluku.
• 1258 – Baghdad captured and destroyed by the Mongols, effective conclusion of the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad.
• 1259 – Treaty of Paris is signed between Louis IX and Henry III

1260s

• 1260 – Toluid Civil War begins between Kublai Khan and Ariq Böke for the title of Great Khan.
• 1261 – Byzantines under Michael VIII retake Constantinople from the Crusaders and Venice.
• 1262 – Iceland was brought under Norwegian rule, with the Old Covenant.
• 1265 – Dominican friar and theologian, Thomas Aquinas begins to write his Summa Theologiae.
• 1268 – Fall of the Crusader State of Antioch to the Mamelukes.

Portrait of the Chinese Zen Buddhist Wuzhun Shifan, painted in 1238, Song dynasty.

Hommage of Edward I (kneeling), to the Philippe le Bel (seated). As duke of Aquitaine, Edward was a vassal to the French king.

1270s

• 1270 – Goryeo dynasty swears allegiance to the Yuan dynasty.
• 1270 – The Zagwe dynasty is displaced by the Solomonic dynasty
• 1271 – Edward I of England and Charles of Anjou arrive in Acre, starting the Ninth Crusade against Baibars.
• 1272–1274 – Second Council of Lyon attempts to unite the churches of the Eastern Roman Empire with the Church of Rome.
• 1274 – The Mongols launched their first invasion of Japan, but they are repelled by the Samurai and the Kamikaze winds.
• 1274 – The Tepanec give the Mexica permission to settle at an islet which was named Cauhmixtitlan (Eagle's Place Between the Clouds)
• 1275 – Sant Dnyaneshwar who wrote Dnyaneshwari (a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita) and Amrutanubhav was born.
• 1275 – King Kertanegara of Singhasari launched Pamalayu expedition against Melayu Kingdom in Sumatra (ended in 1292).
• 1277 – Passage of the last and most important of the Paris Condemnations by Bishop Tempier, which banned a number of Aristotelian propositions
• 1279 – The Song dynasty ends after losing the Battle of Yamen to the Mongols.

1280s

• 1282 – Aragon acquires Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers.
• 1284 – Peterhouse, Cambridge founded by Hugo de Balsham, the Bishop of Ely.
• 1284 – King Kertanegara launched the Pabali expedition to Bali, which integrated Bali into the Singhasari territory.
• 1285 – Second Mongol raid against Hungary, led by Nogai Khan.
• 1289 – The County of Tripoli falls to the Bahri Mamluks led by Qalawun.
• 1289 – Kertanegara insulted the envoy of Kublai Khan, who demanded that Java pay tribute to the Yuan Dynasty.[7][8]

1290s

• 1290 – By the Edict of Expulsion, King Edward I of England orders all Jews to leave the Kingdom of England.
• 1291 – The Swiss Confederation of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden forms.
• 1291 – Mamluk Sultan of Egypt al-Ashraf Khalil captures Acre, thus ending the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (the last Christian state remaining from the Crusades).
• 1292 – Jayakatwang, duke of Kediri, rebels and kills Kertanegara, ending the Singhasari kingdom.
• 1292 – Marco Polo, on his voyage from China to Persia, visits Sumatra and reports that, on the northern part of Sumatra, there were six trading ports, including Ferlec, Samudera and Lambri.[9]
• 1293 – Mongol invasion of Java,[10] Kublai Khan of Yuan dynasty China, sends punitive attack against Kertanegara of Singhasari, repelling Mongol forces.
• 1293 – On 10 November, the coronation of Nararya Sangramawijaya as monarch, marks the foundation of the Hindu Majapahit kingdom in eastern Java.
• 1296 − First War of Scottish Independence begins.
• 1297 – Membership in the Mazor Consegio or the Great Council of Venice of the Venetian Republic is sealed and limited in the future to only those families whose names have been inscribed therein.
• 1299 – Ottoman Empire is established under Osman I.
• 1300 – Islam is thought to have become established in the Aceh region.
• 1300 – Aji Batara Agung Dewa Sakti founds the Kingdom of Kutai Kartanegara/Sultanate of Kutai in the Tepian Batu or Kutai Lama.

Significant people

Frescoes from the 13th-century Boyana Church

Queen Tamar

Persian Islamic scholar Mawlana Kwaja Moinuddin Chishti

Politics

• Abu Bakr, relative of Sundiata Keita who reclaimed the throne from his nephew and restored order to Mali
• Alexander Nevsky, grand prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• Alexios III Angelos, Byzantine emperor
• Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt
• Batu Khan, Mongol ruler and the founder of the Golden Horde
• Béla IV of Hungary rebuilder of Hungary after the devastating Mongol invasion
• Birger Jarl, Swedish statesman, earl, and founder of Stockholm
• Dunama Dabbalemi, of the Sayfawa dynasty, a mai (king) of the Kanem Empire.[11][12][13]
• Edward I of England, English king
• Enrico Dandolo, doge of the Republic of Venice
• Frederick II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire
• Gregory X, pope
• Haakon Haakonsson, king of Norway from 1217 to 1263
• Henry III of England, king
• Innocent III, pope
• Ivan Asen II, emperor of Bulgaria
• Kaloyan, emperor of Bulgaria
• Ken Arok (or Ken Angrok), founder and first ruler of the Singhasari (also Singasari) Kingdom
• Kublai Khan, Mongol ruler, founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China
• Lasha Giorgi, King Giorgi IV of Georgia
• Lembitu, Estonian ruler
• Louis IX of France, St. Louis, French king and crusader
• Manco Cápac, first governor and founder of the Inca civilization in Cusco
• Oduduwa, first king of the Yorubaland
• Osman I, Sultan, founder of Ottoman Empire
• Ottokar II of Bohemia, king of Bohemia
• Rusudan, queen regnant of Georgia
• Sundiata Keita, founder of the Manden Kurufaba (Mali Empire)
• Mansa Sakura, deposed Abubakari I of the Malian throne who then led an expansionist campaign
• Sinchi Roca, Second Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco
• Sri Indraditya, credited as the founder of the first historical Siamese dynasty
• Tamara, ruler of Georgia
• William Marshal, knight and statesman
• Yekuno Amlak, founder of the Solomonic dynasty

Theologians and Saints

• Albertus Magnus, German philosopher and theologian
• Alexander of Hales, Franciscan friar and theologian
• Bonaventure, Franciscan theologian, bishop, and cardinal
• Anthony of Padua, Portuguese Franciscan friar, Bishop
• Kwaja Moinuddin Chishti, scholar, poet and descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
• Dōgen, priest, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen
• Dominic Guzman, Spanish Catholic friar and founder of the Order of Preachers
• Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, Hungarian princess of the Kingdom of Hungary
• Gertrude the Great, German Catholic nun and spiritual writer
• Francis of Assisi, Umbrian founder of the Franciscan order
• Ibn Taymiyyah, famous Hanbali, Salafi scholar of Islam
• Jalal Uddin Muhammad Rumi, scholar and famous poet
• Nachmanides, leading medieval Jewish scholar, Sephardic rabbi, philosopher, physician, kabbalist, and biblical commentator
• Thomas Aquinas, Neapolitan Catholic friar and theologian

Literature

• Robin Hood, legendary English crusader-turned-outlaw
• Andrea of Grosseto, Italian writer
• Dante Alighieri, Florentine writer and poet
• Nasreddin, Turk satirista
• Saadi, Persian poet
• Yunus Emre, Turkish poet and Sufi mystic

Visual Arts

• Cimabue, Florentine painter
• Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter

Sciences and Philosophy

• Fibonacci, Italian mathematician known for discovering the Fibonacci sequence
• Ibn al-Nafis, Arab physician known for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood
• Madhvacharya, Indian philosopher and chief proponent of the Dvaita school of Vaishnavism and Tattvavada, "the philosophy of reality”
• Mevlana, philosopher and poet
• Petrus Peregrinus, scientist
• Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
• Robert Grosseteste, English statesman, theologian, and scientist
• Roger Bacon, Franciscan friar, philosopher, and scientist
• Snorri Sturluson, historian and saga-writer

Explorer

• Marco Polo, Venetian trader and explorer

Military

• William Wallace, Scottish national leader

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Timeline of historic inventions#13th century
• Early 13th century – Xia Gui paints Twelve Views from a Thatched Hut, during the Southern Song dynasty. It is now kept at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
• The motet form originates out of the Ars antiqua tradition of Western European music.
• Manuscript culture develops out of this time period in cities in Europe, which denotes a shift from monasteries to cities for books.
• Pecia system of copying books develops in Italian university-towns and was taken up by the University of Paris in the middle of the century.
• Wooden movable type printing invented by Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen in 1298.
• The earliest known rockets, landmines, and handguns are made by the Chinese for use in warfare.
• The Chinese adopt the windmill from the Islamic world.
• Guan ware vase is made, Southern Song dynasty. It is now kept at Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London.
• 1250 – Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, and other Ancestral Pueblo architectural complexes reach their apex[14]
• 1280s – Eyeglasses are invented in Venice, Italy.
• Late 13th century – Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace is made during the Kamakura period. It is now kept at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
• Late 13th century – Descent of the Amida Trinity, raigo triptych, is made, Kamakura period. It is now kept at the Art Institute of Chicago.
• The Neo-Aramaic languages begin to develop during the course of the century.

See also

• Christianity in the 13th century

References

1. For numismatic information: Coins of Ghazan Archived 2008-02-01 at the Wayback Machine, Ilkhanid coin reading Archived 2008-02-01 at the Wayback Machine.
2. Greater London, Inner London & Outer London Population & Density History, quoting from The London Encyclopedia, Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, ed., Macmillan, 2010, ISBN 1405049251
3. Francine Weiss and Mark R. Barnes (May 3, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Grand Village of the Natchez Site / Fatherland Plantation Site (22-Ad-501)" (pdf). National Park Service. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) and Accompanying 3 photos, from 1989. (680 KB)
4. "Ken Angrok". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
5. Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi UNESCO
6. Weinstein, Richard A.; Dumas, Ashley A. (2008). "The spread of shell-tempered ceramics along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico" (PDF). Southeastern Archaeology. 27 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-25.
7. Grousset, Rene (1988), Empire of steppes, Wars in Japan, Indochina and Java, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, p. 288, ISBN 0-8135-1304-9.
8. page 243
9. History of Aceh Archived August 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
10. Weatherford, Jack (2004). Genghis khan and the making of the modern world. New York: Random House. p. 239. ISBN 0-609-80964-4.
11. Urvoy, Y. (1949). Historie De L'Empire Du Bronu (Memoires De L'Institut Francais D'Afrique Noire, No. 7 ed.). Paris: Librairie Larose. pp. 52, 57.
12. Palmer, Richmond (1936). The Bornu Sahara and Sudan. London: John Murray. pp. 92, 179–186.
13. Barth, Henry (1890). Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. London: Ward, Lock, and Co. p. 361. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
14. Berlo and Phillips, 275

External links

• James J. Walsh (1907). "The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries". nd.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-03-01.