Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeats Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina, beginning the Mali Empire.
July 15 1240 – Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva, saving Russia from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North.
Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeats Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina, beginning the Mali Empire.
July 15 1240 – Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva, saving Russia from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North.
1240 Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1175) William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (born 1166) 1241 10 August – Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany, daughter of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (born 1184) 1 December – Isabella of England, princess (born 1214) 1242 26 March – William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (year of birth unknown) 1243
1240 – Construction begins of the Castel del Monte in Apulia, Italy, for Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor; used by Frederick primarily as a hunting lodge. 1242 – Heddal Stave Church in Norway consecrated, built in the first half of the 13th century. 1242 – Rebuilding of Peyrepertuse Castle in France to its current form begun.
The decade of the 1240s in art involved some significant events. Events. c.1240: Oxford manuscript illuminator William de Brailes incorporates in illustrations to a book of hours and a psalter named self-portraits, among the earliest known. 1248: April 26: Consecration of Sainte Chapelle, Paris ...
Bartholomew of Neocastro. Beatrice of Castile (1242–1303) Beatrice, Countess of Montfort. Béla, Duke of Slavonia. Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley. Bernhard I of Werle. Agnes Blannbekin. Roger Brabazon.
1190s; 1200s; 1210s; 1220s; 1230s; 1240s; 1250s; 1260s; 1270s; 1280s; 1290s; Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
1240s ke ngwagasome tšhupamabakeng ya Gregorian wa go thoma ka 1 Pherekgong 1240 ya fela ka 31 Manthole 1249. Ngwagasome 1240s o wela ngwagengkgolo wa 13. Ngwagakete: Ngwagakete 2: Mengwagakgolo: Ngwagakgolo 12 – Ngwagakgolo 13 – Ngwagakgolo 14: Mengwagasome: 1210s 1220s 1230s – 1240s – 1250s 1260s 1270s:
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