1262

Events

Berke–Hulagu war: Mongol forces under Berke Khan, ruler of the Golden Horde, raid territory in the Caucasus belonging to his cousin Hulagu Khan, ruler of the Ilkhanate. Berke supports the Georgian rebels and allies with the Mamluks. He defeats the Ilkhanate forces on the Terek River, together with the Mamluk army led by Baibars, saving Palestine and Arabia from Ilkhanate occupation.

March 8 - Battle of Hausbergen: The bourgeois of Strasbourg defeat a German army of knights under Bishop Walter of Geroldseck. Strasbourg becomes an imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.
May - King Alfonso X of Castile and León, at a meeting in Jaén, demands military support from Muhammad I, ruler of Granada, and relinquishes the ports of Tarifa and Algeciras to prepare an invasion of North Africa.
September 14 - Reconquista: Castilian-Leonese forces led by Alfonso X conquer Cádiz. The city has been under Moorish rule since 711. The Muslims are ousted, and Alfonso repopulates the region.
The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into the Old Covenant, establishing a union with Norway (872–1397)|Norway], and acknowledges King Haakon IV of Norway as its ruler.
King Mindaugas of Lithuania perhaps renounces Christianity, returning to the country's pagan roots, and reverting to Grand Duke.

Al-Hakim I, a member of the Abbasid dynasty, travels to Egypt in [the Middle Ages|Egypt] and is proclaimed as caliph of Cairo in succession to his former rival Al-Mustansir II. After his arrival, he is imprisoned at the Citadel of Cairo by orders of Sultan Baibars but released in 1296 by Sultan Lajin.

Adam de la Halle, French trouvère and musician, writes the first operetta, Le Jeu de la Feuillee.

The Venice Senate starts consolidating all of the Republic's outstanding debt into a single fund, later known as the Monte Vecchio. The holders of the newly created prestiti are promised a 5% annual coupon. These claims can be sold, and quickly give rise to the first recorded secondary market for financial assets, in Medieval Europe.

January 25 - Richard of Chichester in England is canonized as a saint; he is best known for authoring the prayer adapted into the song "Day by Day" in the musical Godspell.

May 6 - John Hastings, English nobleman and knight
August 5 - Ladisslaus IV, king of Hungary (1000–1301)|Hungary]
October 18 - Ranulph Neville, English nobleman
Bérenger de Landore, French preacher and archbishop
Elisabeth of Carinthia, queen consort of Germany
Guan Daogao, Chinese calligrapher, poet and painter
Guan Daosheng, Chinese painter, poet and writer
John II, emperor of Trebizond
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Takatsukasa Kanetada, Japanese nobleman
U T'ak, Korean scholar and philosopher
William de Cantilupe, Anglo-Norman nobleman and knight