Sample Page

September 9: King Louis VIII of France accepts the surrender of the rebels at Avignon.
November 8: Louis IX (right) becomes the King of France at age 12, with his mother, Blanche of Castile (left), serving as regent (painted c. 1240 AD)

Year 1226 (MCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January – March

April – June

July – September

  • July 10 – In Baghdad, Al-Mānsūr al-Mustansir bi-llah (known as Al-Mustansir I) becomes the new Caliph of the adherents of Islam (and the 36th of the Abbasid dyansty), succeeding his father, al-Zahir bi-Amr Allah, who died only nine months after succeeding to the Caliphate.[19]
  • August 8Siege of Avignon: After two months without forcing the defenders of Avignon to surrender from lack of food, King Louis VIII gives the order to assault the walls of the city and Guy II, Count of Saint-Pol, begins the second phase of the siege, digging trenches facing the city walls – which are connected on both sides of the Rhône with pontoon bridges. Firing from the fortress towers, the defenders repulse the attack and Count Guy is killed by a catapulted stone on the same day.[20][21]
  • August – At Xingqing in what is now China’s Yinchuan province, Emperor Xianzong of the Western Xia Empire dies after a three-year reign, and is succeeded by his nephew, Li Xian.[22][23] The Mongols under Genghis Khan force the surrender of Western Xia the following year, bringing an end to the Yinchuan province as a separate nation.[24]
  • September 9 – After Avignon’s defenders negotiate a peaceful resolution with the French Army by the payment of an indemnity of 6,000 marks, the gates of the walled city are opened and Louis enters the city without violence.[21]
  • September 11 – The Catholic Church practice of eucharistic adoration among lay people formally begins in Avignon, Provence.[citation needed]

October – December

By place

Europe

Mongol Empire


By topic

Art and culture

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Taylor, K. W. (2013). A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge University Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-521-87586-8.
  2. ^ Michael Ott, “Pope Honorius III“, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910)
  3. ^ Jean Létanche (1907), Les Vieux Châteaux, Maisons fortes et Ruines féodales du canton d’Yenne en Savoie [Old Castles, Fortified Houses and Feudal Ruins of the Canton of Yenne in Savoy], Le livre d’Histoire-Lorisse, ISBN 9782843738135 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  4. ^ Ibben Fonnesberg-Schmidt (2013). Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain. BRILL. pp. 117–120. ISBN 978-0812203066.
  5. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 240, at Google Books
  6. ^ “Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction Series”. sparky.rice.edu.
  7. ^ Helen Sullivan (21 December 2020). “How to watch the Jupiter and Saturn ‘great conjunction’ on winter solstice”. The Guardian.
  8. ^ Richards, D. S. (2010). The chronicle of Ibn al-Athīr for the crusading period from al-Kāmil fīʼl-taʼrīkh. Ashgate Publishing. p. 269. ISBN 9780754669524.
  9. ^ Machitadze, Archpriest Zakaria (2006), “The Hundred Thousands Martyrs of Tbilisi (†1227)”, in The Lives of the Georgian Saints Archived 2008-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. pravoslavie.ru. Retrieved on 2012-11-13.
  10. ^ Czapliński, Marek; Maroń, Jerzy (1997). Historia w datach. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza “Rytm”. p. 89. ISBN 83-86678-26-7.
  11. ^ Jean Lefèvre, Annales de Hainaut (Fortia d’Urban, 1835) pp.212-234
  12. ^ Nicholas, David M. (2014). Medieval Flanders. Taylor & Francis. p. 156.
  13. ^ At the time, the new year did not begin in France until Easter Sunday and the treaty bears the date if 1225 AD.
  14. ^ Der Nersessian, Sirarpie (1969). “The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia”. In Kenneth Setton (ed.). A History of the Crusades. Vol. 2. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 630–659.
  15. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  16. ^ Petit-Dutaillis, Charles [in French] (1895). Étude sur la vie et le règne de Louis VIII (1187–1226). Paris: Émile Bouillon.
  17. ^ Pegg, Mark Gregory (2008). A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 175–176.
  18. ^ Dell’Umbria, Alèssi (2006). Histoire universelle de Marseille. De l’an mil à l’an deux mille. Marseille: Agone. p. 19. ISBN 2-7489-0061-8.
  19. ^ Sir William Muir, The Caliphate, its rise, decline, and fall: from original sources (Edinburgh: John Grant Publishing, 1915)
  20. ^ Jonathan Sumption, The Albigensian Crusade (Faber and Faber, 1978) p.324
  21. ^ a b Strayer, Joseph R. (1992). The Albigensian Crusades, pp. 133–134. London, England: Faber. ISBN 0-571-11064-9.
  22. ^ Paludan, Ann (1998). Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-500-05090-3.
  23. ^ Dunnell, Ruth (1994). “The Hsi Hsia”. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 6. pp. 205–214.
  24. ^ Moule, Arthur C. (1957). The Rulers of China, 221 BC-AD 1949. London: Routledge. p. 83. OCLC 223359908.
  25. ^ Brezinski, Richard (1998). History of Poland: Old Poland – The Piast Dynasty, pp. 22–23. ISBN 83-7212-019-6.
  26. ^ Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L’Occident d’al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
  27. ^ Man, John (2004). Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection, p. 214. ISBN 978-0-312-36624-7.
  28. ^ Tristan et Iseult. Paris: Gallimard. 1995. ISBN 2-07-011335-3.
  29. ^ “Saint Francis of Assisi | Biography, Facts, Feast Day, Patron Saint Of, & Legacy”. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 11 September 2021.