Tables of History : A.D. 1200 - 1299

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1212
  • The Children's Crusade
    Under the leadership of a French peasant boy, Stephen of Vendôme, thousands of boys and girls, many less than twelve years old, travelled to Marseilles. There, they set sail for Palestine, intending to free the Holy Land. The larger part of the young crusaders were either shipwrecked or sold into slavery. A second group, composed of thousands of German children, led by a boy named Nicholas, went as far as Italy but turned back. Many died on the aborted journey.
  • Venice conquers Crete
1215
  • Magna Carta
    King John of England signs the Magna Carta after the battle of Runnymede.
  • Fourth Lateran Council
    Church leaders meet to condemn the Waldensians, the Albigensians, and other heretical movements.
  • Peking falls to the Mongols
1217
  • Haakon Haakonsson king of Norway
    Skuli Baardsson earl.
  • Pope Innocent III proclaims the Fifth Crusade
1220
  • Danish Chronicler Saxo Grammaticus dies
1226
  • Francis of Assissi dies
1227
  • End of the Norwegian civil wars
1226
  • Francis of Assissi is canonized
1239
  • In Norway, Skuli rebels
1240
  • In Norway, Skuli is defeated
1245
  • First Council of Lyons
    Church leaders meet to condemn Emperor Frederick II.
1247
  • Haakon Haakonsson crowned king of Norway
1257
  • Magnus Haakonsson is acclaimed co-king of Norway
1260
  • The Norwegian monarchy becomes formally hereditary
1261
  • Greenland comes under Norwegian sovereignty
1262
  • Iceland becomes part of Norway
    The Althing of Iceland decides that Iceland shall be joined with Norway.
  • Scots attack Norwegians on Skye
    In Scotland, king Alexander III permits a brutal assault on the Norwegian possessions on Skye.
1263
  • Haakon Haakonsson leads a massive raid on Scotland
    The raid fails, ending in defeat and Haakon's death.
  • Magnus Haakonsson Lagabřte becomes king of Norway
  • In Russia, Aleksander Nevski dies
1266
  • Treaty of Perth
    The Hebrides and Man pass from Norway to Scotland.
1271
  • Marco Polo's journeys to the Orient (1271-1295) begin
    Marco Polo serves Kublai Khan from 1275 to 1292.
1273
  • In Norway, king Magnus' sons Erik and Haakon are acclaimed as king and duke, respectively
  • The Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas is published
1274
  • In Norway, the land-law of king Magnus is instituted
  • Kublai Khan makes failed attempt to invade Japan
  • Thomas Aquinas dies
  • Second Council of Lyons
    Church leaders meet to discuss and approve a plan (which ultimately failed) for union with the Eastern (Orthodox) Church.
1276
  • In Norway, the civic law of king Magnus is instituted
1280
  • Erik Magnusson is crowned king of Norway
1281
  • Iceland introduces new laws
    The text of the new book of laws, the Jónsbók, is very similar to the Norwegian land-law.
  • Scottish-Norwegian dynastic marriage
    King Erik Magnusson of Norway marries Margaret, daughter of Alexander III of Scotland.
1282
  • The statutes of the city of Bergen limit the trading freedoms of German merchants
1284
  • Conflict between Norway and the Hansa
    Hansa blockade of Norway. Settled by intercession of the king of Sweden.
1286
  • Murder of Danish king
    Erik V "Klipping" of Denmark is murdered in a barn near Finderup.
  • Alexander III of Scotland dies
    Margareta Eriksdaughter, daughter of the Norwegian king, becomes sole heir to the throne of Scotland. This immediately provokes a civil war in Scotland.
1289
  • Norway at war with Denmark (until 1295)
    The reasons are partly dynastic, partly the support given by the Norwegian king to the exiled nobles who stand accused of the murder of Erik Klipping.
1290
  • Voyage of the "Maid of Norway"
    Margareta Eriksdaughter, "The Maid of Norway", sails for Scotland to wed the Prince of Wales, but dies on the Orkney Islands.
1294
  • In Norway, Hanseatic privileges instituted
    Norwegian King Erik and his brother, Duke Haakon, issue letters of privilege to the Hansa.
1295
  • Marco Polo returns
    In 1298, he begins dictating his memoirs, whilst in a Genoese prison.
1295
  • Haakon V Magnusson "Haalegg" (Narrowlegs) becomes king of Norway

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