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1258

EVENTS

February 10 - Battle Of Baghdad (1258) - Hulagu Khan 's Mongol forces overrun Baghdad , then the leading center of Islam ic culture and learning and capital of the Abbasid Caliphate . They burn the imperial city to the ground, 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 Music al form of Geisslerlieder , penitential songs sung by wandering bands of Flagellant s.

BIRTHS

Arghun , fourth Ilkhanate ruler of Iran (approximate date; died 1291 )

Osman I , founder of the Ottoman Empire (died 1326 )

DEATHS

February 20 - Al-Musta'sim , last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad

August - Theodore II Lascaris , Byzantine Emperor

Hong Bok-won , Goryeo commander who later served the Mongol Empire

Reginald De Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (born 1295 )

Meinhard I Of Gorizia-Tyrol (born c. 1200 )

Theodore II Lascaris , emperor of Nicaea

Abu-l-Hassan Ash-Shadhili , Moroccan spiritual leader (born 1175 )

SEE ALSO

List Of State Leaders In 1258