1263

This article is about the year 1263.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1230s  1240s  1250s  – 1260s –  1270s  1280s  1290s
Years:	1260 1261 1262 – 1263 – 1264 1265 1266

1263 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1263 in poetry

1263 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1263 MCCLXIII
Ab urbe condita	2016
Armenian calendar	712 ԹՎ ՉԺԲ
Assyrian calendar	6013
Bengali calendar	670
Berber calendar	2213
English Regnal year	47 Hen. 3 – 48 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1807
Burmese calendar	625
Byzantine calendar	6771–6772
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3959 or 3899     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3960 or 3900
Coptic calendar	979–980
Discordian calendar	2429
Ethiopian calendar	1255–1256
Hebrew calendar	5023–5024
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1319–1320
- Shaka Samvat	1185–1186
- Kali Yuga	4364–4365
Holocene calendar	11263
Igbo calendar	263–264
Iranian calendar	641–642
Islamic calendar	661–662
Japanese calendar	Kōchō 3 (弘長３年)
Julian calendar	1263 MCCLXIII
Korean calendar	3596
Minguo calendar	649 before ROC 民前649年
Thai solar calendar	1805–1806

Year 1263 (MCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Europe

Northern and eastern Europe

• July – Scottish–Norwegian War: Haakon IV of Norway sets sail to defend the Hebrides against Alexander III of Scotland.
• October 2 – Battle of Largs: an inclusive battle in the Scottish–Norwegian War fought in Scotland, between kings Haakon IV of Norway and Alexander III of Scotland.
• Mindaugas, the only Christian king of Lithuania, is assassinated by his cousin Treniota.
• The chieftains of the eastern part of Iceland become the last to pledge fealty to the King of Norway, bringing a more complete end to the Icelandic Commonwealth and the Age of the Sturlungs.
• Hulagu Khan is defeated in an attempted invasion north of the Caucasus.
• Based on Magdeburg Law, Żnin (Poland) is given city rights.

Mediterranean

• May–July – Battle of Settepozzi: a Venetian fleet defeats a superior Genoese-Byzantine fleet.
• King James I of Aragon conquers Crevillente, Spain from the Moors during the Reconquista.
• Alfonso X of Castile conquers Niebla over Ibn Mahfuz, thus terminating any Muslim presence in the western part of the peninsula.
• Genoa captures the city of Chania on Crete from the Venetians.

By topic

Arts and culture

• The Savoy Palace is constructed in London by Peter II, Count of Savoy.

Education

• Balliol College, Oxford is founded by John I de Balliol.

Markets

• Edward, heir to the throne of England, seizes £10,000 which had been deposited to the trust of the Knights Templar in London by foreign merchants and English magnates.
• The Bonsignori firm gains the full market of the transfer of fiscal revenue from the papal estates to Rome.

Religion

• Nahmanides, chief rabbi of Catalonia, defends the Talmud in an important disputation against Pablo Christiani before King James I of Aragon.
• The doctrines of theologian Joachim of Fiore are condemned as heresy by the Roman Catholic Church at a synod in Arles.

Births

• January 22 – Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian philosopher and jurist (d. 1328)
• Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1312)

Deaths

• March – Manuel I Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond

• March 19 – Hugh of Saint-Cher, French cardinal
• June 7 – Boniface, Count of Savoy
• September 12 – King Mindaugas of Lithuania
• November 14 – Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• December 15 – King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
• December 24 – Hōjō Tokiyori, regent of Japan (b. 1227)
• date unknown –
  • Hamo de Crevequer, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
  • Boroldai, general of the Golden Horde