1289
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Events
By place
America
- The 5,453 metres (17,890 ft) high volcano Popocatépetl is first ascended by members of the Tecuanipas tribe, in present-day Mexico.
Africa
- April 27 – Fall of Tripoli: Mamluk sultan Qalawun captures the County of Tripoli (in present-day Lebanon) after a month-long siege, thus extinguishing the Crusader State.
Asia
- Prince Subaru of Japan conquers the province of Saitama.
Europe
- June 11 – Battle of Campaldino: The Italian Guelph and Ghibelline factions fight; the Guelph victory secures their position of power in Florence.
- Construction of Conwy Castle, ordered by King Edward I of England, is completed in Wales.
- Jews are expelled from Gascony and Anjou in France.
- Construction of the Belaya Vezha tower in Belarus is completed.
By topic
Education
- Pope Nicholas IV formally constitutes the University of Montpellier in France by papal bull, combining various existing schools under the mantle of a single university.
Markets
- In Siena, twenty three partners, including five members of the Bonsignori family, re-create the Gran Tavola, formerly the most successful European bank, which had ceased its operations after the death of its creator and manager, Orlando Bonsignori, in 1273.[1]
Religion
- Franciscan friars begin missionary work in China.
Births
- October 4 – King Louis X of France (d. 1316)
- October 6 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
- Joan of Artois, Countess of Foix (b. 1350)
Deaths
- January 16 – Buqa, Mongol minister
- March 10 – Maud de Lacy, Countess of Hertford and Gloucester, English noble (b. 1223)
- March 12 – King Demetrius II of Georgia (b. 1259)
- King Leo III of Armenia
- Petrus de Dacia, Swedish monk and author
- Ugolino della Gherardesca, Italian politician and naval commander
- Ippen, Japanese monk (b. 1239)
- Gruffydd Fychan I, last ruling prince of Powys Fadog
- Rudhramadevi,queen of the Kakatiya dynasty in India
References
- ↑ Bowsky, William (1981). A medieval Italian commune: Siena under the Nine, 1287-1355. University of California Press.