1249

1249 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1249; MCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2002
Armenian calendar	698; ԹՎ ՈՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	5999
Balinese saka calendar	1170–1171
Bengali calendar	655–656
Berber calendar	2199
English Regnal year	33 Hen. 3 – 34 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1793
Burmese calendar	611
Byzantine calendar	6757–6758
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey); 3946 or 3739; — to —; 己酉年 (Earth Rooster); 3947 or 3740
Coptic calendar	965–966
Discordian calendar	2415
Ethiopian calendar	1241–1242
Hebrew calendar	5009–5010
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1305–1306
- Shaka Samvat	1170–1171
- Kali Yuga	4349–4350
Holocene calendar	11249
Igbo calendar	249–250
Iranian calendar	627–628
Islamic calendar	646–647
Japanese calendar	Hōji 3 / Kenchō 1; (建長元年)
Javanese calendar	1158–1159
Julian calendar	1249; MCCXLIX
Korean calendar	3582
Minguo calendar	663 before ROC; 民前663年
Nanakshahi calendar	−219
Thai solar calendar	1791–1792
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་; (male Earth-Monkey); 1375 or 994 or 222; — to —; ས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་; (female Earth-Bird); 1376 or 995 or 223

Years: 1246 1247 1248 - 1249 - 1250 1251 1252
Decades: 1210s 1220s 1230s - 1240s - 1250s 1260s 1270s
Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

King Louis IX of France leads the capture of Damietta in 1249 in the Seventh Crusade.

Events

February 16 - Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by King Louis IX of France as an ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
May 26 - Battle of Fossalta
August 15 - The First Battle of Athenry is fought in Galway, Ireland.
University College, the first College at Oxford, is founded with money gifted from the estate of William of Durham.
The Moors lose possession of Alicante in Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain).
King Afonso III of Portugal recaptures Faro in the Algarve from the Moors, thus ending the Portuguese Reconquista.
Roger Bacon publishes a major scientific work, including writings of convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness and the first publication of the formula for gunpowder in the western world.
The city of Mystras, Greece is fortified and a palace is constructed there by William II Villehardouin.
The city of Stralsund (in present-day Germany) is burned to the ground by forces from the rival city of Lübeck.
Swedish statesman Birger Jarl subjugates the province of Tavastia in Finland, laying the foundations for Sweden's expansionism.
Alphonse of Toulouse orders the expulsion of Jews from Poitou, France.

Pho Khun Si Indrathit becomes the first king of the Sukhothai kingdom, marking the founding of the modern Thai nation.
The Hikitsuke, a judicial organ of the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates of Japan, is established.
The Japanese Hoji era ends, and the Kencho era begins.

King Louis IX of France captures Damietta in Egypt, the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade.

Gregorian calendar	1249 MCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2002
Armenian calendar	698 ԹՎ ՈՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	5999
Balinese saka calendar	1170–1171
Bengali calendar	655–656
Berber calendar	2199
English Regnal year	33 Hen. 3 – 34 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1793
Burmese calendar	611
Byzantine calendar	6757–6758
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3946 or 3739 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3947 or 3740
Coptic calendar	965–966
Discordian calendar	2415
Ethiopian calendar	1241–1242
Hebrew calendar	5009–5010
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1305–1306
- Shaka Samvat	1170–1171
- Kali Yuga	4349–4350
Holocene calendar	11249
Igbo calendar	249–250
Iranian calendar	627–628
Islamic calendar	646–647
Japanese calendar	Hōji 3 / Kenchō 1 (建長元年)
Javanese calendar	1158–1159
Julian calendar	1249 MCCXLIX
Korean calendar	3582
Minguo calendar	663 before ROC 民前663年
Nanakshahi calendar	−219
Thai solar calendar	1791–1792
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 1375 or 994 or 222 — to — ས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Bird) 1376 or 995 or 223