What is 1240?
{{Year nav|1240}} {{Year in various calendars|1240}} {{Year article header|1240}} == Events == * [[Batu Khan]] and the [[Golden Horde]] sack the [[Kievan Rus'|Ruthenian]] city of [[Kiev]]. * [[Mandinka people|Mandinka]] prince [[Sundiata Keita]] defeats [[Sosso]] king [[Soumaoro Kanté]] at the [[Battle of Kirina]], beginning the [[Mali Empire]]. * [[July 15]] – [[Russians|Russian]] [[prince]] [[Alexander Nevsky]] defeats the [[Sweden|Swedes]] in the [[Battle of the Neva]], saving Russia from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North. * End of the [[civil war]] era in [[Norway]]. * [[Saint Maurice]] is started to be portrayed as [[Moor]]. == Births == * [[Abulafia]], [[Malta|Maltese]] [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[philosopher]] (died [[1292]]) * [[Pope Benedict XI]] (died [[1304]]) * [[Stephen V of Hungary]] (died [[1272]]) * [[Sigerus of Brabant]], French theologian (died [[1284]]) * [[Albert the Degenerate]], landgrave of Thuringia (approximate date; died [[1314]]) == Deaths == * [[April 11]] – [[Llywelyn the Great]], [[King of Gwynedd]] * [[Ibn Arabi]], Andalusian Arab philosopher * [[Jacques de Vitry]], French historian and theologian (born c. [[1180]]) * [[William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey]] (born [[1166]]) == Monarchs/Presidents == * [[Aragon]] – [[James I of Aragon|James I]] [[Kings of Aragon|King of Aragon]] and count of [[Barcelona]] (reigned from [[1213]] to [[1276]]) * [[Crown of Castile|Castile]] – [[Ferdinand III of Castile|Ferdinand III]], the Saint [[King of Castile and León]] (reigned from [[1217]] to [[1252]]) [[Category:1240| ]]