Years: 1240 1241 1242 - 1243 - 1244 1245 1246

Decades: 1210s 1220s 1230s - 1240s - 1250s 1260s 1270s

Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

1243 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

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Art and literature

1243 in poetry v • d • e

1243 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1243 MCCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	1996
Armenian calendar	692 ԹՎ ՈՂԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-601 – -600
Berber calendar	2193
Buddhist calendar	1787
Burmese calendar	605
Byzantine calendar	6751 – 6752
Chinese calendar	壬寅年十二月初九日 (3879/3939-12-9) — to — 癸卯年十一月十九日 (3880/3940-11-19)
Coptic calendar	959 – 960
Ethiopian calendar	1235 – 1236
Hebrew calendar	5003 – 5004
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1298 – 1299
- Shaka Samvat	1165 – 1166
- Kali Yuga	4344 – 4345
Holocene calendar	11243
Iranian calendar	621 – 622
Islamic calendar	640 – 641
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3576
Thai solar calendar	1786
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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Rulers

Events

• June 25 - Pope Innocent IV succeeds Pope Celestine IV as the 180th pope.
• June 26 - Battle of Köse Dag: The Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks of Rum.
• Castile captures the city of Murcia from the Moors.
• The city of Brno is founded.

Births

• June 28 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304)
• September 2 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)
• James II of Majorca (d. 1311)
• Valdemar I of Sweden (d. 1302)

Deaths

• January - Richard Mor de Burgh
• May 12 - Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent

Rulers

• Aragon - James I, King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276)
• Castile - Ferdinand III, the Saint King of Castile and Leon (reigned from 1217 to 1252)