Byzantium retakes Constantinople
After 57 years of Latin rule, the last dynasty begins
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A small force under the Nicaean general Alexios Strategopoulos entered Constantinople almost unopposed while the Latin garrison was away. Michael VIII Palaiologos restored the Byzantine Empire, and his dynasty ruled until the city fell in 1453.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 24 years earlier
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 21 years earlier
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — 19 years earlier
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 3 years earlier
Asia
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — 10 years earlier
- 1257 Samalas eruption — 4 years earlier
- 1271 Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty — 10 years later
- 1271–1295 Travels of Marco Polo — 10 years later
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — 20 years later
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 11 years earlier
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — 19 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 46)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 40)
- Marco Polo (aged 7)
- Rumi (aged 54)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 47)
- Rudolf I (aged 43)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 36)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 22)
- Osman I (aged 3)
- Henry III (aged 54)