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{{Year nav|1251}} {{Year in various calendars|1251}} {{Year article header|1251}} == Events == === Europe === * April – The first [[Shepherds' Crusade]], a domestic [[France|French]] uprising in response to events in [[Egypt]] during the [[Seventh Crusade]], occurs. * [[December 26]] – King [[Alexander III of Scotland]] marries [[Margaret of England|Margaret]], daughter of King [[Henry III of England]], precipitating a power struggle between the two monarchs. * [[Andrew de Longjumeau]], dispatched two years earlier by King [[Louis IX of France]] as an ambassador to the [[Mongol]]s, meets the king in Palestine, with reports from the Mongols and [[Tartary]]; his mission is considered a failure. * [[Mindaugas]] of [[Lithuania]] is baptized, in prelude to his crowning as King of Lithuania in [[1253]]. * [[Alexander Nevsky]] signs the first peace treaty between [[Kievan Rus']] and [[Norway]]. * King [[Conrad IV of Germany]] invades [[Italy]], but fails to subdue the supporters of [[Pope Innocent IV]]. * The [[Germany|German]] city of [[Berlin]], founded some fifty years earlier, receives its city charter. * [[Ottokar II of Bohemia]], later to become King of [[Bohemia]], is elected [[Rulers of Austria|Duke of Austria]]. * The earliest known manuscript of ''[[The Proverbs of Alfred]]'', a collection of sayings of [[England]]'s [[Alfred the Great]], is written. === Asia === * [[Möngke Khan]] is elected as the fourth [[great Khan]] of the [[Mongol Empire]]. * Carving of the [[Tripitaka Koreana]], a collection of [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[scriptures]] recorded on some 81,000 wooden blocks, is completed. == Births == * [[Hōjō Tokimune]], 8th regent of the [[Kamakura shogunate]] (died [[1284]]) == Deaths == * [[Bohemund V of Antioch]] * [[Peter I, Duke of Brittany]] (born [[1190]]) * [[Eljigidei]], [[Mongol]] commander of [[Iran|Persia]] * [[Isobel of Huntingdon]] (born [[1199]]) * [[Matthias II, Duke of Lorraine]] [[Category:1251| ]]