1240s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1210s 1220s 1230s – 1240s – 1250s 1260s 1270s
Years:	1240 1241 1242 1243 1244 1245 1246 1247 1248 1249
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

This list includes happenings from the 1240s.

Events

• Batu Khan and the Golden Horde sack the Ruthenian city of Kiev.
• Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeats Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina, beginning the Mali Empire.
• July 15 1240 – Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the 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.
• April 5 1241 – Mongols of Golden Horde under the command of Subotai defeat feudal Polish nobility, including Knights Templar, in the battle of Liegnitz
• April 27 1241 – Mongols defeat Bela IV of Hungary in the battle of Sajo.

Births

• Abulafia, Maltese 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 1240 – 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)

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