What is 1268?
{{Year nav|1268}} {{Year in various calendars|1268}} {{Year article header|1268}} == Events == === Europe === ==== War and politics ==== * [[February 18]] – The [[Livonian Brothers of the Sword]] are defeated by [[Dovmont]] of [[Pskov]] in the [[Battle of Rakovor]]. * [[October 29]] – [[Conradin]], the last legitimate male heir of the [[Hohenstaufen]] dynasty of [[List of German Kings and Emperors|Kings of Germany]] and [[Holy Roman Emperor]]s, is executed along with his companion [[Frederick I, Margrave of Baden]] by [[Charles I of Sicily]], a political rival and ally to the hostile [[Roman Catholic church]]. * King [[Stephen V of Hungary]] launches a war against [[Bulgaria]]. * The county of [[Wernigerode]] become a vassal state of the [[margrave]] of [[Brandenburg]]. * The [[House of Bourbon]] first rises to prominence with the marriage of [[Robert, Count of Clermont]] to King [[Louis IX of France]]'s daughter, [[Beatrice of Burgundy]], heiress to the lordship of Bourbon. * [[Doges of Venice#Choosing of the Doge|New election procedures]] for the election of the [[doge of Venice|doge]] are established in [[Venice]] in order to reduce the influence of powerful individual families. * [[Pope Clement IV]] dies; the following [[papal election]] fails to choose a new [[pope]] for almost three years, precipitating the later creation of stringent rules governing the electoral procedures. ==== Culture ==== * [[Nicola Pisano]] completes the famous [[octagon]]al [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]]-style [[pulpit]] at the [[Duomo di Siena]]. * The [[carnival]] in [[Venice]] is first recorded. * In [[France]], the use of [[hops]] as the exclusive flavoring agent used in the manufacture of [[beer]] is made compulsory. * In [[Slovakia]], Guta was founded (currently [[Kolárovo]]). === Asia === * [[May 18]] – The [[Principality of Antioch]], a [[crusader states|crusader state]], falls to the [[Mamluk]] Sultan [[Baibars]] in the [[Capture of Antioch|Battle of Antioch]]; Baibars' destruction of the city of [[Antioch]] was so great