1250

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1220s  1230s  1240s  – 1250s –  1260s  1270s  1280s
Years:	1247 1248 1249 – 1250 – 1251 1252 1253

Events

Europe

• December 13 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, dies
• King Afonso III of Portugal captures the Algarve from the Moors.
• Valdemar, becomes King of Sweden.
• University of Valladolid is founded in Spain.
• The Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy is changes from a pontoon bridge to a permanent, raised wooden bridge.
• Vincent of Beauvais completes his encyclopedic work, The Greater Mirror.
• The Parlement law courts of ancien régime France are created.
• A sickness breaks out in the city Naples (In what is now Italy), called the Naple's Plague

Africa

• July 3 – Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt at the Seventh Crusade.
• The Bahri dynasty of Mamluks seize power in Egypt.
• The Walayta state is founded in present-day Ethiopia (see Rulers of Walayta)

Births

• Pietro d'Abano, Italian physician, philosopher and astrologer (died 1316)
• Guido Cavalcanti, Italian poet (died 1300)
• Dmitry of Pereslavl, Grand-duke of Vladimir-Suzdal (d. 1294)
• Pierre Dubois, French publicist (approximate date; died c. 1312)
• Moses de Leon, compiler of the Zohar (approximate date; died 1305)
• Giovanni Pisano, Italian sculptor (approximate date; died 1314)

Deaths

• February 2 – King Eric XI of Sweden
• February 8 – Robert I of Artois, French crusader (killed in battle) (born 1216)
• February 8 – William II Longespee, English crusader
• June 18 – Teresa of Portugal
• August 9 – King Eric IV of Denmark (born 1216)
• October 4 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
• December 13 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1194)
• Leonardo of Pisa, Italian mathematician
• Matej Ninoslav, Croatian ban

Eras and population estimates

The population of the world in 1250 was around 400 to 416 million people.