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1258 state leaders
Contents
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 See also
Events
February 10
- The
Hulagu Khan
's
Mongol
forces overrun
Baghdad
, then the leading center of
Islamic
culture and learning, burning it to the ground and killing as many as 800,000 citizens.
Llywelyn the Last
declares himself
Prince of Wales
. He is the final ruler of an independent
Wales
, before its conquest by the
English
.
King
Henry III of England
is forced by seven powerful barons to accept the
Provisions of Oxford
, effectively ending the
absolute monarchy
in
England
by requiring the calling of a
parliament
.
The
Chinese era
Baoyou
ends in the Northern
Song Dynasty
of
China
.
Civil unrest in northern
Italy
spawns the
medieval musical
form of
Geisslerlieder
, penitential songs sung by wandering bands of
Flagellants
.
Births
Sultan Osman I was born in 1258.
Osman I
, founder of the
Ottoman Empire
Deaths
January
or
February
- Count
Meinhard I of Gorizia-Tyrol
February 20
-
Al-Musta'sim
,
Abbasid
Caliph
August
-
Theodore II Lascaris
,
Byzantine Emperor
Theodore II Lascaris
, emperor of
Nicaea
Adam Marsh
,
English
Franciscan
, scholar, and
theologian
Hong Bok-won
,
Korean
turncoat and an administrator for the
Mongol Empire
Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham
See also
List of state leaders in 1258
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