1240

This article is about the year 1240. For the number, see 1240 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1210s  1220s  1230s  – 1240s –  1250s  1260s  1270s
Years:	1237 1238 1239 – 1240 – 1241 1242 1243

1240 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1240 in poetry

1240 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1240 MCCXL
Ab urbe condita	1993
Armenian calendar	689 ԹՎ ՈՁԹ
Assyrian calendar	5990
Bengali calendar	647
Berber calendar	2190
English Regnal year	24 Hen. 3 – 25 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1784
Burmese calendar	602
Byzantine calendar	6748–6749
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3936 or 3876     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3937 or 3877
Coptic calendar	956–957
Discordian calendar	2406
Ethiopian calendar	1232–1233
Hebrew calendar	5000–5001
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1296–1297
- Shaka Samvat	1162–1163
- Kali Yuga	4341–4342
Holocene calendar	11240
Igbo calendar	240–241
Iranian calendar	618–619
Islamic calendar	637–638
Japanese calendar	En'ō 2 / Ninji 1 (仁治元年)
Julian calendar	1240 MCCXL
Korean calendar	3573
Minguo calendar	672 before ROC 民前672年
Thai solar calendar	1782–1783

Year 1240 (MCCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
• Tuan Mash'ika, an Arab, travels and introduces Islam to Sulu.

Europe

• July 15 – Battle of the Neva: Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes, saving the Novgorod Republic from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North.
• The civil war era in Norway ends.
• The Flemish village Kaprijke is recognized as a city.
• Sancho II of Portugal conquers the cities of Ayamonte and Cacella over the Muslims as part of the Reconquista.

By topic

Religion

• Saint Maurice starts to be portrayed as a Moor.

Births

• Abulafia, Maltese Jewish philosopher (d. 1292)
• Pope Benedict XI (d. 1304)
• Sigerus of Brabant, French theologian (d. 1284)
• Albert the Degenerate, landgrave of Thuringia (approximate date; d. 1314)
• Peter III of Aragon, King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and King of Valencia, very important monarch. (dead in 1285)

Deaths

• April 11 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
• November 10 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (b. 1165)
• William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (b. 1166)